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The Colorado Department of Natural Resources has launched an initiative to increase public safety around low-head dams, which have caused a number of accidents and fatalities on Colorado rivers in...

Firefighters are monitoring a wildfire that started this week deep in the Weminuche Wilderness in an area blanketed in beetle-kill trees, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Forest Service...

A decades-long effort to restore the Colorado River cutthroat trout to the upper reaches of Hermosa Creek has been completed, resulting in the largest continuous stretch of waterway for the native...

A car chase ended Wednesday night south of downtown Durango with the arrest of a La Plata County woman. The driver was identified as Amanda Lembach, 35, who was arrested earlier this month on...

Despite a turbulent and ever-changing year, Durango residents can still count on a host of balloons flying through the Animas Valley this weekend. The fifth annual Animas Valley Balloon Rally will...

Lead contamination issues at the Durango Gun Club have sparked what will likely be a multimillion dollar cleanup. “We believe that levels of lead in the soil may exceed applicable standards,” said...

The town of Dolores is offering grants of up to $5,000 to businesses and nonprofits affected financially by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Dolores Cares Coronavirus Relief Program has $40,000 available...

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe reported its first positive COVID-19 case Wednesday since the pandemic broke out in March. In a news release, SUIT spokeswoman Lindsay Box said the person who tested...

Ryan Allison and George Yazzie say it is hard to describe the sound of Navajo country music, but it is unmistakable once you hear it. The twang of a bruised, old electric guitar evoking miles and...

A truck became fully engulfed in flames Wednesday after rolling on its side on New Mexico Highway 173, southeast of Aztec, according to the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office. Lt. Al Jamison said a...

And then there was one. Able to earn an “unattached” berth into the 2020 CHSAA Class 2A State Cross-country Championships, Mancos’ Grace Manning will be Montezuma County’s only representative in...