Wage theft – a term for employers illegally withholding wages – is rampant across Colorado. From telemarketers to tortilla manufacturers, workers in myriad industries have suffered from emp...

The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division determined that Durango restaurateur Alison Dance violated minimum-wage, overtime, record-keeping and child-labor laws at Cyprus Cafe. Th...

Local tourism engine Mesa Verde Country Visitor Information Bureau has hired longtime Cortez resident Kelly Kirkpatrick as its new executive director. “I’m very excited,” said Kirkpatrick....

Necessity, so they say, is the mother of invention, and new Mancos resident Susan Rahmann takes it to heart. Rahmann, who recently moved from Telluride and opened a clothing and design stud...

The number of flights at Durango-La Plata County Airport will increase slightly with American Airlines adding a third daily Dallas flight. Also, the long-awaited return of Frontier Airlines in the spr...

The dustup over “dynamic scoring” is a small indicator of the routine irrelevancy of Washington’s budget debate. Instead of facing the real issues – how much we should spend, on what, who should be ta...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. devoted his life to winning for African-Americans the civil rights that had been denied them from the time this country was formed. Monday’s holiday is to recognize his birt...

Paul Eckert wrote about “all the empty buildings” in Cortez (Letters, Journal, Jan. 6). Actually, Cortez pales in comparison to most of America in the empty building department. There are c...

Now that they control both houses of Congress, Republicans have submitted six bills attacking constitutionally protected abortion rights. One bill in the House bans all abortions after 20 weeks, disre...