A wet spring and summer has given rise to hillsides covered with infestations of oxeye daisies, a noxious weed that smells like rotting flesh and dirty, old gym socks. “If we keep letting it go,...

A small fire is burning between Pagosa Springs and Bayfield, but fires in the Pacific Northwest are the source of the haze blurring the usually sharp silhouette of the San Juan Mountains. Locally,...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff were back on the Animas River Thursday to monitor the health of the fish and other wildlife, after the release of 3 million gallons of heavy-metal waste that...

New homes in Durango and La Plata County will be built to be more energy-efficient next year when local governments adopt new codes, but some say the updates don't go far enough. Both city and...

If the pollution in the Animas River was a comet, the tail would be passing through the town of Durango now, said Aaron Kimple with Mountain Studies Institute. Like a comet, the 3 million gallons...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Sunday tripled its estimate of how much contaminated water gushed out of Gold King Mine and slipped into the Animas River in Wednesday’s blowout – up to 3...

Many water users along the Animas River are without irrigation water, and some well users are on heightened alert for contamination after an estimated 1 million gallons of toxic mine spillage made...

Environmental Protection Agency officials Friday acknowledged causing a catastrophic leak of wastewater into the Animas River, apologizing to the Durango community but then stopped short of...

A million gallons of polluted water flowing down the Animas River started as a small trickle. The entrance to the Gold King Mine has long been collapsed, and the Environmental Protection Agency...

Acidic wastewater from an abandoned mine above Silverton coursed its way through La Plata County on Thursday, turning the Animas River orange-brown, forcing the city of Durango to stop pumping raw...