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Weather killed thousands in 5-year period

Cold, hypothermia took largest percentage

Hold that handshake: Fist bumps are less germy

Could hospitals, doctors adopt this greeting as new standard?

The relentless toll

Disease leaves wife as a full-time caretaker of her husband

U.S. Alzheimer’s rate seems to be dropping

The rate of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is falling in the United States and some other rich countries – good news about an epidemic that is still growing simply because more peop...

Health Briefs

Health Advisory Council to meet at rec center The Citizens Health Advisory Council will meet from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Friday in the Sunlight Room at Durango Community Recreation Center...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Sam Shoemaker, formerly superintendent of Mesa Verde Park, who returned from a trip of several months in California, came down from a visit to Mancos. He says the talk about ...

The challenge of keeping our skies safe

Safety improves as airline industry expands worldwide

Great white tourism

Shark sightings lure visitors to Cape Cod and merchants cash in

And the West is History

100 years ago: “L. S. Lively, telegraph operator at the depot, with Mrs. Lively and the baby left for Pagosa Springs and will spend a week camping in the hills.” 75 years ago: “A ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Prof. William Shaffer, of the Antler’s Cafe, was a returning passenger on the Southern train from Hesperus, where he went to see which way the wind was blowing.” 7...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “S. J. Burris Jr. of Pueblo, a stockholder in the Lucky Four Gold Mining Company, arrived in the city on the Eastern enroute to the mine to take a look in at the $30,000 ore r...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Miss Mabel Johnson, who has been nursing at the Miners’ Hospital in Silverton while some of the regular nurses went off on a vacation, came down on her way to her home in Lig...