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

Interesting fact: Seven-year-olds have an average vocabulary of 2,600 words. Compare this to the average vocabulary of an ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I attended the Planning Commission meeting regarding the proposed RV park at the south end of San Juan County. My husband and I are homeowners and taxpayers at Cascade Village and are opposed to this ...

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 ...

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, ...

(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 ...

Birds of a feather Zink’s Pond, located along the Animas River south of Durango, has long been a choice location for birders. Here, one can observe a wide variety of species that thrive in western ...