After years with little progress, La Plata County has selected a final site for a new radar system. The county plans to construct a radar tower at Durango-La Plata County Airport with the goal of havi...

Montezuma County political party caucuses will be held in early March. Republicans will meet March 1 at 7 p.m. in person at precinct locations. Democrats will meet March 5 at 9 a.m. virtually. A regis...

Harry Tom Burris and Ember Conley were named as the two finalists for interim superintendent by the Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 Board of Education in a special meeting Tuesday, Feb. 15. The...

Utility executives at the San Juan Generating Station near Farmington are requesting a three-month extension to keep the coal-fired power plant in operation, despite originally planning to abandon the...

Organizers announced that the popular Dolores River Festival will return this year after a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic. The all-day music festival is set for June 4 at Joe Rowell Park star...

A bipartisan bill led by Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper would extend a two-decades-long conservation effort on the Colorado and San Juan rivers. Hickenlooper, D-Colo., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, i...

Authorities on Friday identified the woman killed in a crash Thursday morning in southwest La Plata County as Heather Taylor, 29, of Hesperus. Taylor was driving northbound when her silver 2005 Toyota...

Rafting companies do not have to comply with a presidential order to pay guides at least $15 an hour, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals gave Duke Bradford, the ...

Brinley Scheffield and her mom had run the route several times together and tracked the mileage — two trips around their neighborhood block made a mile. So when the 7-year-old who wanted to become a f...

Mancos has developed a reputation as a second-half team. Teams this season have thrown their best at the Bluejays, but Mancos seems to find the right adjustment in the locker room to put away the oppo...