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Four Corners Back Country Horsemen to host volunteer cleanup day

Four Corners Back Country Horsemen volunteers will host cleanup day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 8 at trailheads, roads and campgrounds at Sauls Creek, near Bayfield. For more inf...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Community

Animas River Stakeholders Group to host dedication ceremony

Animas River Stakeholders Group will hold a dedication ceremony of an ARSG memorial at 2 p.m. Friday on the bank of the Animas River in Silverton downstream of the Cement Creek confluence. T...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Community

Mass fossil site in Utah may prove tyrannosaurs lived in packs

Remains show evidence for social behavior

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

U.S. officials: Anxiety drove vaccine reactions in 5 states

NEW YORK – It was anxiety – and not a problem with the shots – that caused fainting, dizziness and other short-term reactions in dozens of people at coronavirus vaccine clinics in five state...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Pfizer, BioNTech seek EU’s OK to use COVID vaccine on kids

LONDON – Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech have submitted a request to the European drug regulator for the approval of their coronavirus vaccine to be extended to include children 12 to 15 years old,...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. to restrict travel from India over COVID-19 starting Tuesday

WASHINGTON – The U.S. will restrict travel from India starting Tuesday, the White House said Friday, citing a devastating rise in COVID-19 cases in the country and the emergence of potential...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel

AP analysis: The expected COVID baby boom may be a baby bust

Births have fallen dramatically in many states

DATE: Apr 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

CDC says many Americans can now go outside without a mask

NEW YORK – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don’t need to cover their faces any...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. lifts barriers to prescribing addiction treatment drug

The Biden administration is easing decades-old requirements that made it difficult for doctors to treat opioid addiction using medication. New guidelines announced Tuesday mean do...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Photo: Newman Building and Streetcar – Ca. 1895

DATE: Apr 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

COVID-19 treatment has improved, but many wish for an easy pill

If Priscila Medina had gotten COVID-19 a year ago, she would have had no treatments proven safe and effective to try. But when the 30-year-old nurse arrived at a Long Island hospital last mo...

DATE: Apr 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Continental Europe could allow U.S. tourists back this summer

BRUSSELS – American tourists could soon be visiting continental Europe again, more than a year after the European Union restricted travel to the 27-nation bloc to a bare minimum to contain t...

DATE: Apr 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel