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Literary fiction can encourage empathy

If you want to understand how people around you are feeling, put down that hard-boiled crime novel and pick up some Jane Austen or Fyodor Dostoyevsky. New research out this month ...

Colorado’s lavender industry finding a fragrant niche

PALISADE (AP) – Cherries are nice, but Paola Legarre has bigger and better plans for her cherry farm nestled in the middle of Colorado’s wine and fruit country. The plans involve ...

Dishes promote healthy eating

‘Wildcat Plate’ at UNH provides dietary advice

C-section not necessary for most twin births

Expecting twins? You probably don’t need to schedule a cesarean section. Most moms can safely give birth without surgery, a big study finds. It’s the latest research to question ...

Ethical issues arise on the genetic frontier

Scientists peek into baby genes to predict risks

Colorado fire departments scramble to recruit new volunteers

Northern Colorado county struggles to find help; lives, property put at risk

And the West is History

100 years Ago: “O.F. Boyle had on his shipping suit, and we judge that a string of Herefords will hit Kansas City soon, and the prices are always higher and the cattle taken through in good ...

And the West is History

100 years Ago: “Quite a party of pleasure seekers journeyed to Electra Lake via the mixed train, bound for a last whirl at the fishing and hunting ere winter’s icy hand grips the country.” ...

And the West is History

100 years Ago: “The Graden Mercantile Co. of Durango had decided to put in a pork packing plant of sufficient capacity to care for all the hogs that will be raised in this section for severa...

And the West is History

100 years Ago: “Bodnar & Co. have finished their contract with the city of laying the concrete crosswalks. The work done has made a vast improvement in the appearance of the city’s streets a...

And the West is History

100 years Ago: A classified advertisement read: “Wanted Position – Competent housekeeper, or will accept waitress or chambermaid position. Apply 694 Fifth Ave.” 75 years ago: “In ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Mrs. Julia Bird was a passenger bound for the Bonnie Girl Mill in the La Platas, where she will confer with Dave Bayles about the operations of her pack trains.” 7...