Four more residents at La Plata County nursing homes have died related to COVID-19 outbreaks, according to state records. An outbreak was first reported Jan. 8 at Sunshine Gardens Country Home,...

If residents of Southwest Colorado felt a deep chill in the air Wednesday morning, nobody would blame them: The mercury dipped to new lows based on at least two decades of record-keeping. The...

While there’s still a long road ahead, the city moved one step closer to financial order Tuesday night by moving past its 2016 financial audit. The final step was to sign a representation letter...

Having avoided a major spike in COVID-19 infections after the holidays, La Plata County’s case count appears to be leveling off, said San Juan Basin Public Health’s executive director. After...

People are still taking about the presidential inauguration held Jan. 20. And while a lot of that talk is about the new Biden administration and the historic swearing in of Kamala Harris, our first...

Road improvements are coming this summer to Durango’s main thoroughfare, Camino del Rio (U.S. Highway 550), that might leave some travelers feeling safer and others gnashing their teeth. The...

Editor’s note: The following column is based on excerpts from a manuscript by Dora Pederson that was read at a Women’s Club Meeting in 1934. By The Montezuma County Historical Society Prospectors...

Wednesday, Jan. 6 4:12 p.m. Wooden fence posts were reported stolen in the 24000 block of County Road V.5. Game cameras caught a white Ford F-250 truck with a wire mesh cage involved in the theft....

Wednesday, Jan. 6 9:01 a.m. Unemployment fraud was reported in the 400 block of South Sligo Street. 7L50 p.m. The rear window of a vehicle was broken in the 40 block of West Main Street. ...

The Journal Mesa Verde National Park will conduct a prescribed fire from Jan. 31 to Feb. 28, weather permitting. The Chapin Mesa area prescribed fire is being conducted to dispose of material...