The letter to the editor (Journal, Sept. 10) by several signees, calling for the cancellation of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners event at the Lewis Arriola Community Center, made me think of the apropos...

Editor’s note: Bailey Duran is an education reporter for The Journal. She divides her time between Cortez and Seoul, where she studies the Korean language. She is a former ambassador and emplo...

Two school board seats are opening on the Mancos school board on Tuesday, Nov. 4. So, who are the Mancos candidates? Victor Figueroa Figueroa was in education for 30 years before retirement. Now, he...

After support from local residents and business owners, the Mancos Board of Trustees plans to amend a motor home ordinance to allow longer stays in town. During the Board of Trustees meeting on Sept....

An Aztec teenager on probation has been accused of fatally shooting a man and injuring another after an alleged break-in involving a Jeep. Angello Murphy, 18, allegedly shot and killed Kit Stephens of...

Great Outdoors Colorado announced $3 million in grant funds for outdoor recreation benefiting the Montezuma Inspire Coalition and a newly established Generation Wild Ute Mountain Ute Tribe group focus...

FORT LEWIS MESA ‒ The Durango School District’s food waste program, run by students in a group called the Green Team, works to manage waste from school cafeterias and classrooms by collecting leftover...

Secondhand exposure to fentanyl has become a topic of conversation on some online chat groups ever since six people were sent to Mercy Hospital after possibly being exposed to the drug at a Durango re...

As revenue flowing into local governments ebbs, more communities are looking to visitors to pay bills. At least seven counties will ask voters this November to double or triple the local lodging tax o...

Katie Terrell Ramos started Mesa Verde Lavender on a dare. She was working as a writer and illustrator of children’s books, and was always obsessed with lavender, she said. Then her father-in-law dare...