At the Durango Community Recreation Center pool Wednesday, three young mermaids frolicked, laughed and executed underwater back flips under the careful supervision of the chief mermaid, Catherine Rath...

On Sunday morning, Judy Ha was Steamboat Springs-bound. She was one of three Montezuma County students selected by Empire Electric for the 2015 Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp in Steamboa...

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Recently I ran across a quote I’d once copied and saved. The quote says that “fear and loss brought to speech lead to energy.” It gives a corollary that “fear and loss not brought to speech...

WASHINGTON – Witnesses testifying Wednesday on juvenile justice before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs had a common message: Defer to tribes. The committee heard appeals for legislat...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Several members of Colorado’s congressional delegation sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell last week expressing concerns surrounding the Colowyo Mine. Environmental gro...

The state water agency creating a statewide water plan met Wednesday at Sky Ute Casino and approved a “conceptual framework” to guide future proposals for diversion of Western Slope water to Front Ran...