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Bill aims to help fliers with airline fees

WASHINGTON – The government would standardize the way airlines disclose fees for basic services like checked bags, seat assignments and ticket changes so that passengers can more easily comp...

These minivans-turned-RVs take car camping to new level

When the sun started to set over the Pacific Ocean, I sprang into motion. I pulled off Highway 1 and parked alongside bluffs softened by swaying grass. I opened the rear hatch, filled the ke...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “It is expected that a total of $98,000 will be spent on the construction of Durango-Silverton Highway in 1916, and the chances are fair that it may be completed before the en...

And The West is History

100 years ago: “Mrs. Anna Fredlund was a business visitor in Durango Friday.” 75 years ago: “Two Durango devotees to the winter sport of skiing, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bodo, returned...

And The West is History

100 years ago: “Miss Florence Salabar, county superintendent of La Plata County schools, visited the local school Tuesday.” 75 years ago: “Four Durango men were held up Sunday by ...

Etched in stone, ‘living spirits’ tell sacred story

New book explores value, significance of desert rock art

Sleep deprivation can give you the ‘marijuana munchies’

WASHINGTON – If you’ve pulled an all-nighter and spent the next day feeling ravenously hungry as if you were in the movie “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” scientists may have just figure...

Health Briefs

Cancer patients can join support group Blueprints of Hope invites people who are experiencing any phase of a cancer diagnosis to the program “Cancer Journaling: The Healing Power ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Mr. and Mrs. Will Tyner purchased supplies in Durango Saturday.” 75 years ago: “L.R. Rist, supervisor of the San Juan National Forest, is attending a convention of...

And The West is History

100 years ago: “Of considerable encouragement for fruit growers in several districts of the San Juan is the new schedule of freight rates on apples and mixed fruits, in carload lots, just is...

And The West is History

100 years ago: “Four hundred membership folders were sent out by the Durango Exchange yesterday to persons in this city and the surrounding country.” 75 years ago: “Charles Thomas...

And The West is History

100 years ago: “The Durango-Silverton Road gets aggregate appropriations of $41,000, and the San Juan Basin-San Luis Valley Road, opening the line from Durango to Denver over Wolf Creek Pass...