Southwest Life - The Durango Herald

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango thanks the community

The recent supply drive for the Navajo Nation resulted in two truckloads and two trailers of supplies gathered for distribution in the Navajo Nation, specifically around Gallup, New Mexico, ...

DATE: Jun 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Southwest Civic Winds cancels July 4 performance

Southwest Civic Winds has announced it will not be playing its usual July 4 free concert in the gazebo at Rotary Park this year. ...

DATE: Jun 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Navajo Nation adapts to fight wildfires during pandemic

With new protocols in place, crews hitting fires hard and keeping them small

DATE: Jun 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Virus cases surging among the young, endangering the elderly

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Coronavirus cases are climbing rapidly among young adults in a number of states where bars, stores and restaurants have reopened – a disturbing generational shift that...

DATE: Jun 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Open wide: U.S. dentists quickly rebuild after virus shutdown

U.S. dental offices are quickly bouncing back, but it won’t be business as usual. Expect social distancing, layers of protective gear and a new approach to some procedures to guard against c...

DATE: Jun 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. citizens likely to be left out as Europe reopens borders

BRUSSELS – Americans are unlikely to be allowed into more than 30 European countries for business or tourism when the continent begins next week to open its borders to the world, because of ...

DATE: Jun 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Heading to these three states? Quarantine might be in the cards

New York, Connecticut and New Jersey asked Wednesday for travelers from states with high coronavirus infection rates to go into quarantine for 14 days in a bid to preserve hard-fought gains ...

DATE: Jun 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Recreational pot laws may boost traffic deaths, studies say

Laws legalizing recreational marijuana may lead to more traffic deaths, two new studies suggest, although questions remain about how they might influence driving habits. Previous ...

DATE: Jun 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

2nd wave of virus cases? Experts say we’re still in the 1st

What’s all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S. coronavirus cases? In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined “There Isn’t a Cor...

DATE: Jun 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health