A trial for a Durango man charged with killing his wife last year in the Lightner Creek Mobile Home Park has been reset for August. Silvino Martinez-Perez had been scheduled for trial Monday. The...

The Environmental Protection Agency is considering hauling waste from the Gold King Mine more than 70 miles to the Bondad landfill south of Durango. However, critics say the proposed plan is not...

State House Rep. Barbara McLachlan has a challenger. Gunnison resident and retired Colorado Parks and Wildlife game warden Paul Jones announced Tuesday he will run for District 59 as an independent...

Turns out the first official rescue mission on Lake Nighthorse was for a 3-year-old pup named Otto who went overboard when his owner’s single-person sailboat capsized after winds picked up Sunday....

A Mancos man was sentenced to two years in prison for a deadly high-speed crash into an SUV carrying a family of four last July that left a father and son dead, and a mother and younger son in...

By all historical accounts, there is no “River of Lost Souls” running through Durango. So how is it that over the years that’s become the adopted, dramatized name of the Animas River? “It’s just...

DNA evidence found at a murder scene in Pagosa Springs positively links a deceased suspect to the shooting death, police announced this week. Investigators said Michael Moats, 29, who was found...

With Southwest Colorado’s snowpack for the year just above half of normal historic averages, an approaching storm that is expected to drop up to 8 inches of snow in the San Juan Mountain high...

Many people in La Plata County don’t wear their seat belts, apparently. According to an observational study in 2017 by the Colorado Department of Transportation, La Plata County ranked the lowest...

Some college students head to Cancun for spring break to experience the raucous atmosphere of one of Mexico’s most popular party destinations. Others volunteer to bring solar energy to needy...

After Fort Lewis College student Allen Duke was killed by a driver last year while walking to work along north Main Avenue, his family learned he was tutoring students during his already busy...