Teachers have an often thankless job, so a group of volunteers decided to throw an appreciation party for them Friday afternoon at the Cortez Cultural Center Plaza. About 100 teachers, counselors, par...

Gov. Jared Polis is asking federal officials to delay rounding up wild horses off Colorado’s rangelands and consider a “more cost effective and humane” plan after 142 horses have died from the equine ...

The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has reached its highest level in recorded human history. Again. In April, the level of CO2 was 27% higher than it was 50 years ago, according ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials are warning that expanding drought conditions coupled with hot and dry weather, extreme wind and unstable atmospheric conditions have led to explosive fire behavior in the southwestern U.S., where large fires continued their march across New Mexico on Friday.

An enthusiastic crowd sent 36 Dolores High School graduates into the wider world during a festive commencement Thursday. Inspiring speeches were delivered by Superintendent Reece Blincoe, social studi...

Colorado’s rafting industry hosted a record number of rafters in 2021, posting its largest annual increase in commercial raft trips, up 44% over the pandemic-hobbled 2020 season. The Colorado River Ou...

Mara Leach, daughter of Steve and Shelby Leach, and granddaughter of Bob and Donna Durant and the late Paul Leach, recently graduated summa cum laude in chemical and biomolecular engineering with a mi...

The town of Silverton may have avoided a large-scale catastrophe early Friday thanks to a bit of serendipity. Firefighters were preparing to do their annual street wash when a volunteer firefighter sa...