The Durango Police Department reports an uptick in the number of counterfeit bills being passed around town during the past couple of months. The bills have turned up at banks, businesses with...

A 72-year-old Littleton man in town for Gold Star Parents Weekend died Friday in a head-on crash near the Durango-La Plata County Airport. The crash occurred about 7 p.m. on Colorado Highway 172...

A cold front pushed its way into the region Friday, sending temperatures plunging and leading to icy conditions on mountain passes between Durango and Ouray. The snow started flying about 11:30...

James Coleman, who purchased Purgatory Resort in 2015, has added another ski slope to his portfolio: Hesperus Ski Area, 11 miles west of Durango. The acquisition announced Thursday includes the...

A judge overseeing a criminal case against a Durango mother suspected of causing a head-on crash that killed her 8-year-old daughter recused herself from the case Tuesday. La Plata County Judge...

A district court judge on Friday ruled that prosecutors can proceed with a first-degree murder trial for one of four men suspected of breaking into a home and killing a Fort Lewis College student...

A former Durango man died in a motorized glider plane crash Wednesday near Telluride. Robert B. Saunders, 64, known to some as “Glider Bob,” was piloting the aircraft when it went down for unknown...

Thousands of emails related to the Gold King Mine spill that were posted online last week by the Environmental Protection Agency will eventually be made searchable, the agency said Thursday. The...

A flash-flood watch was issued for Southwest Colorado, northwest New Mexico and southeast Utah from noon Wednesday into the evening as thunderstorms with potentially heavy rain move into the...

A man suspected of strangling his girlfriend 1½ years ago in Dove Creek was scheduled Friday for a two-week trial to begin late November in 6th Judicial District Court. William Blackburn Jr., 46,...