This month, the Department of Health and Human Services released new Title X funding guidelines that represent a stunning reversal of the program’s mission. The word “contraception” appears exactly ...

After three years coming to Durango, the Valkyries are taking a breather. This week, organizers of the annual Valkyrie ...

Interesting fact: The U.S. tax filing date used to be March 15, but it’s possible that (unofficially, of course) the Ides of ...

The Center Origin, a newly established psychedelic-assisted healing center based in downtown Denver, is officially the state’s first licensed healing center. The state began accepting license ...

The specter of climate disruption and the dramatic reduction in the cost of renewable energy are transforming the world’s energy sector. In the last 20 years, our electric co-op, LPEA, first resisted ...

I look forward to reading Jonathan Thompson’s new book River of Lost Souls, about the Gold King Mine disaster. The popular myth is that the river was named after members of a party of Spanish ...

There’s about to be another reason to pull off 1-70 in Idaho Springs other than Beau Jo’s pizza. Work began last week on a $58 million gondola that will haul people 1,300 feet up the mountain from the ...

Mark Redwine was booked into the La Plata County Jail at 4:56 p.m. Monday following extradition from Whatcom County, in northwestern Washington. La Plata County Sheriff’s deputies took custody of ...

Speaking of skiing, two local skinny ski legends, twin sister biathlon Olympians Lanny and Tracy Barnes, are going down in the history books. On Sat., Dec. 2, at the Durango Winter Sports Foundation’s ...

A new grow dome is taking shape in the Tiffany-Arboles area. A community effort, it is meant to improve food security and help residents grow their own food in an area hampered by a short growing ...

It’s happening earlier and earlier every year. At the start of the new millennium, the black bears living around Durango typically started emerging from their winter dens around mid-April. Today, ...

You don’t need to be a fire expert to uncover the culprit of the 416 Fire in Durango. All clues point to the train: videos, witness accounts and the map of the fire on June 1, which shows the initial ...