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Year-end numbers show visitation to Durango-La Plata County Airport higher in 2025 than 2024

More seats, lower prices and greater convenience driving passenger decisions

DATE: Jan 25, 2026 | CATEGORY: Local News

Horses leap through flames and pets go to church in Spanish animal rituals honoring St Anthony

SAN BARTOLOME DE PINARES, Spain – Hundreds of Spaniards watched horses gallop through towering flames, hours before pet owners in Madrid on Jan. 17 took their dogs and cats to church to be b...

DATE: Jan 23, 2026 | CATEGORY: Travel

Olympic visitors to Milan get a rare chance to glimpse restoration of a long-hidden Leonardo gem

MILAN – In honor of the Milan Cortina Olympics, Milan cultural officials are for a brief time only allowing visitors access to a long-hidden wall and ceiling painting by Leonardo da Vinci wh...

DATE: Jan 23, 2026 | CATEGORY: Travel

Winter storm could bring heavy snow to San Juan Mountains

Travel expected to be hazardous Friday night into Saturday

DATE: Jan 22, 2026 | CATEGORY: Local News

FLC Outdoor Pursuits to run 16-day Antarctica ski trip for alumni and donors

2027 fundraising effort is ‘once in a lifetime opportunity,’ organizer says

DATE: Jan 22, 2026 | CATEGORY: Local News

No snow, no problem: The plastic slope surrounded by sheep that produced Britain’s top skier

PENDLE, England – Nestled in the rolling countryside of Ribble Valley in northwest England is a modest ski slope about 140 yards long, 10 yards wide and surrounded by roaming sheep. It’s a g...

DATE: Jan 17, 2026 | CATEGORY: Travel

Ancient Rome meets modern technology as tourists visit restored, frescoed home via livestream tours

ROME – One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time, albeit via a livestreamed tour of its hard-to-reach underground frescoe...

DATE: Jan 17, 2026 | CATEGORY: Travel

An ice park without ice: How is outdoor industry dealing with a warm winter?

The Ouray Ice Park should be a frozen playground by this time in January – with ice chandeliers and frozen waterfalls more than 100 feet high beckoning ice climbers from around the world. In...

DATE: Jan 9, 2026 | CATEGORY: Travel

New Mexico communities prepare for Route 66 centennial celebrations all year long

State grants mean new neon, restored gas stations, public art and maybe even a ‘musical road’

DATE: Jan 8, 2026 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

An annual ode to ice is carved in frozen northern China

HARBIN, China – Each January, an odd and beautiful thing happens in the frigid northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. Some would argue that the place, the capital of Heilongjiang province, has...

DATE: Jan 8, 2026 | CATEGORY: Travel

An uninhabited Scottish isle is home to the golden granite used in Olympic curling stones

AILSA CRAIG, Scotland – If you’re looking to strike gold – silver or bronze, too – look to Ailsa Craig. This uninhabited isle 10 miles off the coast of southwest Scotland is the source of th...

DATE: Jan 3, 2026 | CATEGORY: Travel

Buddhist monks persist in peace walk despite injuries as thousands follow them on social media

ATLANTA – A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their walking trek across much of the U.S. to promote peace, even after two of its members were injured when a truck hit their escort ve...

DATE: Jan 2, 2026 | CATEGORY: Travel

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Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

About a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

The Durango Herald’s year in photos 2025

Photos: Chapman Hill fires up the snow guns

Photos: Wreaths Across America at Greenmount Cemetery in Durango

Photos: Durango High School girls basketball plays Piedra Vista High SchoolPanthers left Durango with 37-29 win on Tuesday night

Panthers left Durango with 37-29 win on Tuesday night

Year-end numbers show visitation to Durango-La Plata County Airport higher in 2025 than 2024

Horses leap through flames and pets go to church in Spanish animal rituals honoring St Anthony

Olympic visitors to Milan get a rare chance to glimpse restoration of a long-hidden Leonardo gem

Winter storm could bring heavy snow to San Juan Mountains

FLC Outdoor Pursuits to run 16-day Antarctica ski trip for alumni and donors

No snow, no problem: The plastic slope surrounded by sheep that produced Britain’s top skier

Ancient Rome meets modern technology as tourists visit restored, frescoed home via livestream tours

An ice park without ice: How is outdoor industry dealing with a warm winter?

New Mexico communities prepare for Route 66 centennial celebrations all year long

An annual ode to ice is carved in frozen northern China

An uninhabited Scottish isle is home to the golden granite used in Olympic curling stones

Buddhist monks persist in peace walk despite injuries as thousands follow them on social media

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