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With one day left in the year, highway fatalities in six counties in Southwest Colorado came in at 14 for 2020, down 22% from the 18 fatalities in 2019, according to data from the Colorado...

Update: Repairs to Purgatory Resort’s Lift 1 have been completed. It reopened at 9:52 a.m. Saturday, general manager Dave Rathbun told The Durango Herald. Purgatory Resort’s main lift from its base...

The Dolores and Colorado rivers could face lower water quality according to a recent decision by the Bureau of Reclamation that could cause the closure of the Paradox Valley Salinity Control...

Gov. Jared Polis expanded the criteria for people who qualify for the COVID-19 vaccination, but it may be some time before people actually receive it. “We haven’t received it yet,” Liane Jollon,...

Since Monday, backcountry skiers have triggered more than 10 avalanches in the San Juan Mountains, and while no one was seriously injured, there have been some dangerous close calls, according to...

La Plata County will move into the less restrictive Level Orange public health restrictions Monday after Gov. Jared Polis made an unexpected announcement Wednesday night on social media that he is...

CONEJOS – Authorities have identified a second set of human remains found near a rural town in southern Colorado. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation says a forensic odontologist, a specially...

SANTA FE – State authorities are increasing oversight of tobacco and e-cigarette businesses to prevent child access with the start of the new year, at the same time that a new statewide minimum...

SANTA FE – The son of a Chevrolet assembly line worker, Rick Smith grew up hunting squirrels, rabbits, grouse and deer in upstate New York, but the words of Jack O’Connor took him on hunts to...

A video examining entrepreneurial rural businesses in Durango and the development of a local business accelerator program to help them grow has been produced by a Vermont nonprofit – helping spread...

With 2020 in the rearview mirror, it’s time to look at the most pressing environmental issues that face Southwest Colorado in the year to come, and there’s no shortage of them. How will the...