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A campaign by the Pew Charitable Trust to raise awareness of eroding infrastructure at national parks recently swung through Cortez.Restore America’s Parks aims to address an estimated $11.3...

The Montezuma County Landfill is adjusting its recycling program to help meet the demand for drywall to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Landfill manager Shak Powers is asking...

A group of Fort Lewis College students and faculty made an impassioned plea for action Tuesday evening after President Donald Trump announced earlier in the day that he plans to phase out the...

Cortez is the latest Montezuma County town to report multiple bear sightings within city limits this summer. Animal control officer Lari Ann Pope said a resident sent her a surveillance video of a...

The Draw Fire, located 8 miles northeast of Dolores, has grown to 930 acres, according to San Juan National Forest officials. The fire in the Boggy Draw area is burning at low-to-moderate intensity...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of stories about Fort Lewis College students making a documentary about uranium mining in and around Durango. By Jonathan Romeo Herald Staff Writer It’s...

While a third of American adults and one in six children are obese, a report last week suggests the rate of increase could be stabilizing in some states. Colorado had the lowest obesity rate at...

A mysterious gravesite near a construction zone northeast of Durango was determined to be a memorial for a woman who passed away several years ago, according to La Plata County Sheriff’s Office...

In 1963, Glen Canyon was pronounced dead. Glen Canyon Dam had submerged its fabled grottoes, ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and slickrock chutes beneath the stagnant water of Lake Powell, and...

Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner on Tuesday signed on as co-sponsors of the DREAM Act of 2017 after President Donald Trump announced he would phase out a program that shields young...

For the first 75 minutes, the Montezuma-Cortez High School soccer team went step-for-step with Bayfield on Tuesday. Three goals over the final five minutes by Bayfield senior Tilden Berriman undid...