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SILVERTON – Despite fears that the sight of a mustard-yellow river would turn away visitors from Southwest Colorado, ridership on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad increased about 10.5 per...

Due to a slump in 2014 commodity prices, roughly 1.7 million farms across the country that are enrolled in the USDA’s new Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs are ...

For the past six years, a remote area of La Plata County has been the playing field for rocket science. Advanced Mobile Propulsion Test (AMPT) set up shop in 2009 on a 2-acre plot of flatla...

The Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office reported this week that a convicted sex offender has failed to register with local authorities. Made available to the public on Monday, Deputy Brian Hi...