Student attendance and discipline in the Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 will be strictly enforced this year, and chronically absent students might face possible legal action. Additionally, law ...

WASHINGTON – Colorado’s U.S. senators shared their goals for the rest of the session and what they’ve done so far in 2022 as time winds down to get their priorities passed. The Durango Herald spok...

Celebrate Western tradition and 4-H accomplishments during the Montezuma County Fair July 29 to Aug. 6 at the fairgrounds. The festivities kick off July 29 at 7 p.m. with a country music concert by ri...

DENVER – A Colorado man who had been charged in the presumed death of his missing wife has pleaded guilty to forgery for casting her 2020 election ballot for then-President Donald Trump. Barry Morphew...

Colorado voters will decide in November whether to decriminalize the possession and use of “magic” mushrooms and allow the creation of “healing centers” where people would be allowed to purchase and c...

Wolves are coming to Colorado and, so far, I have not witnessed people preparing for their arrival. Letters appear in local papers, suggesting that ranchers will be the victims once wolves return. Hun...

MOSQUITO RANGE – Colorado Fourteeners Initiative trail builder Sarah Barringer looked up from her trail work on the switchback heading to the ridge below Mount Bross. A man was taking a shortcut, caus...

A small wildfire was burning Friday on Ute Mountain Ute land northwest of Towaoc. The Bowl Fire has burned less than a half-acre in a rugged area on the eastern flanks of Sleeping Ute Mountain, accord...

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on Thursday was booked into the Pitkin County Jail at 9:22 p.m. on an arrest warrant. She was released after posting a $1,000 bond at 10:24 p.m. A warrant for her arrest ...

Durangoan Riley Amos of Trek Factory Racing was planning on racing in his first elite race this weekend during USA Cycling’s mountain bike national championships in Winter Park. Unfortunately for Amos...