TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles will not defend her Olympic title. The American gymnastics superstar withdrew from Thursday's all-around competition to focus on her mental well-being. USA Gymnastics said in...

The national and global spotlight shines briefly on our region through a New York Times article published July 19, dateline Durango, Colorado: “Lost Lives, Lost Culture: The Forgotten History of Indig...

“Now hiring” banners are flying along Main Avenue in Durango. Job listings are getting few or zero responses. In Vallecito, a restaurant closed because of short staffing. La Plata County business owne...

Manna, a Durango soup kitchen, is launching a new program to help Durangoans who have been incarcerated reconnect with their community. After being discharged from prison, people often face challenges...

If you follow the West Fork River to its high alpine headwaters, you will be in a position to climb Mount Wilson, a difficult fourteener in the Lizard Head Wilderness Area. But mountain climbers hikin...

Dueling OHV ballot measures will go to Silverton voters Oct. 12 with three possibilities: off-highway vehicles will be banned in town, allowed throughout town or current rules allowing them only on de...

There was only one American in the men’s mountain bike race at the Olympic Games Monday afternoon. That man was Durango’s own Christopher Blevins. In his debut Olympic performance, the 23-year-old fin...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — U.S. officials who are trying to adopt out wild horses captured on public land say they are tightening protections to guard against the illegal resale of the animals for slaughter, b...