La Plata County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that a suspect has been identified for smuggling drugs into the La Plata County Jail, an incident that could implicate more than 10 inmates. La Plata...

A mysterious ring in the sky around Durango on Sunday afternoon had some people wondering if life from another planet had finally arrived to Earth or if the sight was long-awaited evidence of...

This winter, if you see a snowplow in Southwest Colorado that looks like it’s jack-knifing, don’t be alarmed. The Colorado Department of Transportation recently announced it will add two “tow...

In 2014, the Bureau of Land Management held its first meeting to discuss updating nearly 30-year-old regulations on the leaking of methane waste from more than 100,000 oil and gas wells on public...

A small fleet of lowrider cars revved their engines Sunday at Fort Lewis College as part of the Sociology Department’s Save the Kids program. “We wanted to bring a social, nontraditional event to...

A jury trial for local environmentalist Rose Chilcoat, who is suspected of putting livestock at risk in southeastern Utah, has been scheduled for Jan. 31. In April, Chilcoat and her husband, Mark...

Colorado regulators on Monday fined a La Plata County oil and gas operator more than $650,000 for several outstanding violations at a well site near Redmesa, about 20 miles southwest of Durango. At...

After threats of dismissal, a tenured professor at Fort Lewis College has been cleared of allegations of plagiarism and copyright infringement, with President Dene Thomas, albeit begrudgingly,...

A 40-acre tract on the southern border of the Shenandoah subdivision has been pulled from an oil and gas lease sale that is slated for March, according to a spokesman with the Bureau of Land...

Two oil and gas companies that abandoned more than 50 wells in La Plata County have put Colorado regulators on the hook for one of the largest cleanup projects in the state. “This is a fairly...

A recent Denver Post article is being called misleading and inaccurate for overstating the risks to wildlife from mine contamination around a Superfund site near Silverton. “The statement that EPA...