I’ve dedicated my career to mental health care in Colorado, from working on the front lines as a clinician to now operating a clinic that employs 10 skilled professionals. Throughout my career, I have ...

The return of trails season to area BLM lands came a few weeks early this year. On Tues., April 15, the BLM, in coordination with CPW, announced it was lifting winter wildlife closures on trails on ...

The EO provides for the cheap dumping of mine waste even where a valid mine doesn’t exist. For Trump, the concepts that the Earth is small, its resources limited and that the unregulated release of ...

While federal fire mitigation efforts are being cut, LPEA has expanded ours. Using grid mapping and drones, they’ve launched proactive teams to create defensible spaces, increased tree trimming in ...

It’s happening earlier and earlier every year. At the start of the new millennium, the black bears living around Durango typically started emerging from their winter dens around mid-April. Today, ...

“A Peaceful Library Takeover” expanding nonprofits’ access to funding and grant advice, 10:30 a.m., Southwest Colorado libraries Trail Crew Brew Release and Durango Trails Membership Event, 4-8 p.m., ...

I’m calling on Rep. Hurd to do more to prioritize our health, climate and future. This includes: • Stopping efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate and clean energy policies that will ...

This year, there are two seats up for grabs on the three-person La Plata County Board of Commissioners, with Gwen Lachelt (District 2 - Durango) and Julie Westendorff (District 3 - Bayfield, Ignacio) ...

On behalf of the rational and caring people of the United States of America, I am writing to apologize for the boorish behavior of American President, Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.

If you ask me, “scanners can’t handle paw prints” sounds like a way for some county clerk to pass the buck and shush annoying Coloradans. You just know there’s plenty of fourteener-summiting people ...

Now for something from the shameless self-promotion department: our very own longtime columnist, poet and Montezuma County friend David Feela has published his fifth book.

Ramble at Mesa Verde is the second campground for the fairly young company. The first one, near Great Sand Dunes National Park, opened in 2023. About 30 minutes from the park, it features its own ...