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A fight is brewing in Silverton over whether to allow the continued use of off-highway vehicles within town limits, which is likely headed to a highly contentious vote this spring. Earlier this...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
Two Southwest Colorado-based companies are joining an increasing legion of businesses choosing to remove their ads from the controversial website Breitbart News. In November, a Twitter account...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
A 50-year-old man from Cortez has been identified as the driver who died Sunday after his vehicle collided with a Colorado Department of Transportation snowplow near Dolores. The Colorado State...
DATE: Feb. 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
Bernard Young was behind bars for nearly 30 years for a crime he claimed he didn’t commit when his family, in a last ditch effort, called Mancos resident Claudia Whitman. Whitman, who runs the...
DATE: Feb. 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
More than 150 people gathered outside U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s Durango offices Tuesday, demanding the Republican senator oppose the rollback of methane waste regulations. “We’re here to support the...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
La Plata County has nearly 800 people working in the clean energy sector, according to a recent report based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics information. “That doesn’t seem far reaching to me...
DATE: Feb. 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business
SHIPROCK – Over the years, Anthony Lee, a Navajo medicine man, has watched the sacred land around Chaco Canyon where he gathers herbs and performs ceremonies slowly turn into an industrial...
DATE: Feb. 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
Nearly a decade in the making, two historic U.S. Forest Service outposts in the San Juan Mountains near Mancos and Dolores should be ready for public use by the summer of 2018.Tom Rice, recreation...
DATE: Jan. 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
It appears President Donald Trump’s freeze on Environmental Protection Agency funding will not impact the Superfund site around Silverton, a source confirmed Wednesday.“We have received...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
Frustrated that Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner has ignored countless calls, more than 50 people converged on his Durango office Tuesday in an attempt to elicit a response from their elected...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
The devastating spruce beetle infestation in the San Juan Mountains has crossed the Continental Divide, and within the next few years, will spread into the high country around Durango and...
DATE: Jan. 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
An oil and gas lease sale that would auction off about 840 acres near Chaco Culture National Historical Park will proceed on Jan. 25 after five years of challenges from opponents. The Bureau of...
DATE: Jan. 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business