Newsletter - The Durango Herald

Alert: Fire equipment activity near Mancos Hill on U.S. Highway 160

Activity attributed to a structure fire

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Community

Southwest Conservation Corps hiring high school students for summer conservation work

There will be two four-week sessions offered, and no experience is necessary

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Education

‘Know your rights’: Ute Mountain Ute chairman speaks out about Trump’s executive orders

Chairman Manuel Heart advises members to carry two forms of ID

DATE: Jan 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hero worship: Jimmy Carter and us

I was on a Baptist mission trip in Southeast Asia in 1976 when a newspaper appeared at my motel door proclaiming Jimmy Carter as winner of the U.S. presidential election. Local people asked ...

DATE: Jan 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Grand Junction man who stabbed and killed a person in Cortez is set free

‘There’s a valid self-defense claim,’ DA says

DATE: Jan 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

What’s the latest on Farmington’s Amazon? Delivery company tips its hand

Dear Mr. Know-It-All: Has any information been released on the new Amazon building on Browning Parkway? Can you help clarify? Thanks for the column! Signed, Shop Till You Drop Dear Shop: Ful...

DATE: Jan 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Mr. Know It All

Coalition of funders supports local newsrooms across U.S.

Press Forward funding can support infrastructure, operations and reporting for small-town newsrooms

DATE: Jan 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Our View: Trump pardons gross miscarriage of justice

Found guilty, pleaded so or charged, 1,600 individuals who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are free, or will be within hours or days. For most, there was no doubt as to the extent of the...

DATE: Jan 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

CDOT warns drivers of ‘lengthy delays’ near Lizard Head Pass

They’re doing winter maintenance work

DATE: Jan 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

20 gray wolves released in Pitkin, Eagle counties, Colorado Parks and Wildlife says

Fifteen brought from British Columbia; 5 were from captive Copper Creek pack

DATE: Jan 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Local News

Our View: Affordable health care for Southwest Colorado, deadline 11:59 p.m.

Health care has become a deadly business. Last month’s murder of Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, has become a symbol of the illness long plaguing America’s health care industry: The ...

DATE: Jan 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion