Southwest Life - The Durango Herald

Thank you from Womenade

The Womenade Council would like to thank the donors for their support of our community. Despite not having the fundraising event, donors mailed funds to the Women’s Resource Center providing...

DATE: Mar 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Local business owner encourages others to join in donating

Dot of Dot’s Durango Goldendoodles will donate any money over $2,000 on a purchase of a Goldendoodle from her to the Durango Food Bank. Six Goldendoodles are currently available. ...

DATE: Mar 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Hesperus Ski Area closes uphill ski access

Hesperus Ski Area has discontinued uphill ski access for the remainder of the ski season. For more information, visit www.ski-hesperus.com. ...

DATE: Mar 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Medicare and COVID-19 information offered

Community members interested in an update about how COVID-19 may impact Medicare supplements may contact Janice, a licensed insurance agent in Durango. Right now, underwriters fee...

DATE: Mar 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Katie Hawkins named to Fort Lewis College dean’s list

Katie Hawkins, a senior at Fort Lewis College, was named to the fall 2019 dean’s list. Hawkins is studying public health. ...

DATE: Mar 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Community

Age is not the only risk for severe coronavirus disease

WASHINGTON – Older people remain most at risk of dying as the new coronavirus continues its rampage around the globe, but they’re far from the only ones vulnerable. One of many mysteries: Me...

DATE: Mar 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

How would overwhelmed hospitals decide who to treat first?

NEW YORK – A nurse with asthma, a grandfather with cancer and a homeless man with no known family are wracked with coronavirus-induced fevers. They are struggling to breathe, and a ventilato...

DATE: Mar 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

Photo: 1880 Downtown Durango

DATE: Mar 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: And the West is History

A lesson from the Spanish influenza outbreak a century ago

Social distancing made a difference in Southwest Colorado

DATE: Mar 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Stuck at home? Let these travel board games help take you away

Earlier this month, the coronavirus and a snowstorm trapped my husband and me inside our one-bedroom home above Lake Tahoe in Nevada. We canceled our travel plans through summer and celebrat...

DATE: Mar 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

For seniors, isolation changes life in varied, nuanced ways

One remembers the polio epidemic and the hardships of World War II. One is stoic about it all – because, he says, he’s already “here past the welcome.” A third, old enough to remember the af...

DATE: Mar 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health

For nursing homes, symptoms aren’t enough to tell who’s sick

SEATTLE – An investigation at a Seattle-area nursing home concluded that symptoms aren’t enough to identify who is infected once the coronavirus enters a long-term care facility. ...

DATE: Mar 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health