DURANGO - It was easy to imagine that the Galloping Goose No. 5 was smiling as it proudly took passengers for a tour up the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad during last week's Rail Fest. ...

State officials have received the first reported equine case of West Nile virus this year. The case was diagnosed Aug. 14, in a three-month-old colt from Montezuma County. The transmission...

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 5231 and Ladies Auxiliary of Mancos was the recipient of the VFW Outstanding Community Service Post Award at the organization's annual convention in Louisville, Ky., ...

Mancos School District Re-6 is seeking nominations for candidates to be placed on the ballot for the regular school-board election on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Two directors will be elected, each fo...

DENVER - Mining inspectors have found heavy pollution from mercury and arsenic inside an unpermitted gold mill on the west side of Mancos. It's "one of the uglier cases of using hazardous c...

It's been a long time since Todd Sehnert attended the first day of classes, but the 43-year-old was wearing new school clothes yesterday in Mancos. A first-year teacher, Sehnert launched hi...

Belle Jennings Benchley was born in Pratt, Kan., on Aug. 28, 1882. At the age of four, she and her family moved to Loma, Calif., where her father was sheriff of San Diego County. Belle rece...

Last week I spelled Noland's name Owen but what hurts is I knew better. His name was Oen Edgar Noland. I love how others write. They are descriptive and detailed at times. The following com...