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San Juan Basin Archaeological Society to host presentation at fairgrounds, and on Zoom

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will host an in-person presentation called “Diné Survivance and the Old Leupp Boarding School” with Davina Ruth Two Bears at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday July 21...

DATE: Jul 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Drought, heat, fire force fishing ban on Colorado River

Limits in place from Kremmling to Rifle

DATE: Jul 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. proposes removing Colorado River fish’s endangered status

DENVER – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it plans to propose reclassifying a rare Colorado River Basin fish called the razorback sucker from endangered to threatened status a...

DATE: Jul 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Migrant activists leave life-saving caches of water, food in Arizona wilderness

Activism has roots in the 1981 founding of the Sanctuary Movement

DATE: Jul 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Donors invited to virtual party

Cancer Support Community Southwest Colorado, an affiliate of the Cancer Support Community, will launch Community Gives Day on Monday June 28. The demand for the organization’s free services ...

DATE: Jun 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Community

Overrun national forests prompt action from U.S. Congress

Counties help fund U.S. Forest Service work in White River National Forest

DATE: Jun 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

San Juan Mining & Reclamation Conference seeks proposals for talks, field trips, discussions

San Juan Mining & Reclamation Conference is seeking abstracts for the 11th annual conference. Deadline for submissions is Sunday June 27. The conference, “Solving Pandora’s Box: The Applicat...

DATE: Jun 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

San Juan Mining & Reclamation Conference to be held for 11th year

Mining conference focuses on arts and humanities

DATE: Jun 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society to host presentation

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will host a presentation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 9, on Zoom. Shelby Tisdale, director of Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies, will discuss...

DATE: Jun 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Egypt bets on ancient finds to pull tourism out of pandemic

CAIRO – Workers dig and ferry wheelbarrows laden with sand to open a new shaft at a bustling archaeological site outside of Cairo, while a handful of Egyptian archaeologists supervise from g...

DATE: May 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel

U.S. birth rate falls to lowest point in more than a century

NEW YORK — The U.S. birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report being released Wednesday. The rate dropped for moms of...

DATE: May 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Bounty hunters say farewell to TV show, but not the chase

Fugitives on the run in Southwest Colorado are likely to see a little less screen time with the announcement “Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters” will no longer be on the air. The show featured ...

DATE: Jan 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life