Former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell was elected to the National Native American Hall of Fame on Nov. 6 in Oklahoma City. The newly opened First Americans Museum hosted the ceremony in which Campb...

Born in Durango, Harry Goulding was a sheepman who marveled at the red rock monoliths of Monument Valley, Utah. He brought Hollywood to Monument Valley and the Navajo Nation, but he also brought Geig...

On Oct. 29, President Biden declared November as National Native American Heritage month. To help celebrate, next week the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Sleeping Ute Diabetes program hosts “Keep Calm...

San Juan Basin Public Health on Friday called on Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to issue a statewide mask order amid a surge in COVID-19 cases that has resulted in transmission and hospitalization rates co...

BILLINGS, Mont. – A U.S. government attorney urged a federal judge Friday to uphold a decision from the waning days of the Trump administration that lifted protections for gray wolves across most of t...

The latest in a string of bomb threats from the same suspected Towaoc woman posed a safety concern at Walmart on Nov. 3, according to a Cortez Police Department incident report. Raelena Kuebler is su...

The second race in the Zia Taqueria Cyclocross Series, which took place Saturday in Cortez, saw different bikers claim the open division titles. The course in Cortez featured a sand pit, steep hills a...

The Dolores Water Conservancy District has sold Totten Lake to the Montezuma Valley Irrigation Co. The sale has been pending since MVIC signed a lease-purchase contract for the lake in 2020, said DWCD...

Purgatory Resort tentatively plans to open Nov. 20, which will largely be dependent on snowmaking progress and any help from Mother Nature during the next week, said Theresa Graven, spokeswoman with t...

An unidentified pickup truck is suspected in a drive-by shooting near Big O Tires on Tuesday in Cortez, according to a police incident report. The single-cab truck, potentially manufactured by Ford a...