You may have already noticed, but bear activity in town is heating up. According to the City of Durango, the “significant uptick” is driven, in part, by a poor acorn crop due to dry conditions. It’s a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius ...

Booker Brenneman inside the newly re-opened Graze Colorado, off the alley on 7th Street between Main and E. 2nd. The local ...

With 14 fourteeners, the San Juan Mountains are the third-busiest in the state behind the Front Range (Pike’s and Long Peak) ...

Move 1: He demonized the undocumented by declaring that undocumented border crossings represented a threat to democracy, and he promised to institute “police state” programs to curtail them. He made ...

Born Jan. 17, 1914 – died Aug. 28, 1993. Like bookends, his life supported many people’s reading and writing lives, including mine. He still does. Every August I revive this memory of a poet and ...

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 ...