Hotel occupancy across the state is down 2% through June. Hotel revenue is also down, and the first quarter of 2025 has seen ...

You may have already noticed, but bear activity in town is heating up. According to the City of Durango, the “significant ...

What is happening in Gaza is a humanitarian crisis. Where is the global outrage, especially from Americans? Neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble, and well more than 60,000 Palestinians, many of ...

One does not have to be a wizard with numbers to realize that tariffs were affordable at 1.5% on goods from Europe for many years. POTUS was considering a 30% tariff before he talked with VIPs from ...

The use of atomic bombs was rationalized after-the-fact using myths that transformed the burning of children into a positive good. President Truman and government propagandists justified the attacks ...

Various reputable agencies have reported an estimated 13,000 - 17,000 civilians have been killed in Gaza along with possibly 100,000 injured from Israeli bombings that occurred after the Hamas attack ...

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, ...

In regard to the upcoming primary election for La Plata County Treasurer, I would like to make the important distinction between speaking “negatively” of an elected official versus holding one ...

Pride on parade Life is better in color, especially a lot of bright, vivid, rainbow ones. And in case you didn’t notice, last week, Durango was bathed in them. For 17 years, the 4 Corners Alliance for ...

LPEA’s new 10-year deal to buy hydro power from Vallecito Dam is being pitched as a win for local clean energy. In reality, it’s a small, unreliable and likely expensive gesture that does little to ...

Between Elon Musk’s brief, disastrous tenure with the misnamed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and the Republicans’ mad rush to gut health care and food assistance for millions of ...

(Editor’s note: The following is a response from the La Plata County Farm Bureau and La Plata County Cattlemen’s Association on the Durango Wolf Symposium Nov. 29 at Fort Lewis College. The piece was ...