National 4-H Week is Oct. 5–11. This year’s theme is “#iam4H”. Montezuma County 4-H gives youths the skills to confront today’s problems and thrive in careers tomorrow. It is the nation’s ...

WASHINGTON – You can win midterm elections without a positive agenda. You can’t win presidential elections that way. It is therefore vitally important for Republicans to win the Senate in 2014. Here’s...

The state of Colorado’s new program to issue driver’s licenses to those in the country illegally is absolutely the right idea. It is in Colorado’s – and Coloradans’ – interest to ensure that drivers i...

The recent story (Journal, Sept. 23) on the sheriff candidates took up a lot of space in the paper. Most of the content was opinions and accusations. Opinions, particularly from defense attorneys who ...

Your pictures of Silverton and up river from Durango were beautiful (Journal, Sept. 26). T oo bad you couldn’t get in pictures from travels up Highway 145 and take in scenes along that part...

It is difficult to understand how a man can be seeking to serve us in the highest of public offices and yet tarnish the very same legacy of public service the current officeholder and his family have ...

Mancos Public Library presents an advance screening of “Makers: Women in Comedy,” on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 6 p.m. Appetizers from the Millwood Junction Restaurant will be served before the ...

We take seven journeys in life. Last month I wrote about our first journey, “Welcome to the Garden of Eden,” where we begin growing up and leave the buoyancy of infancy and adolescence and...

Legend has it that when St. Francis of Assisi would preach, birds would fly around him and listen to what he had to say. Another story tells of the time that St. Francis was able to tame th...

Trail builders for the new Overlook Trail in Dolores moved boulders, cleared trees, and flinched at rattlesnakes during their first days on the job this week. An experienced crew of 20-some...