Tribes celebrate designation of Bears Ears Monument

Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye applauded more than 400 supporters and tribal leaders who gathered at the Monument Valley Welcome Center on Saturday, Jan. 7, to celebrate the designation of...

DATE: Jan. 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

In Canada, a move to protect data from Trump

On a Saturday morning in December, Henry Warwick trudged through the slushy streets of Toronto, Canada, to attend an event at the University of Toronto’s towering Robarts Library. He took the...

DATE: Jan. 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Oil and gas plants may have to report toxic releases

Natural gas-processing plants would have to start publicly reporting toxic chemicals they release into the environment under proposed regulations the Environmental Protection Agency announced last...

DATE: Jan. 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Plans falter for West Coast coal terminals

The Rev. Ken Chambers has lived in West Oakland for all of his 50 years and grappled with air pollution the entire time. The neighborhood, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, is surrounded...

DATE: Jan. 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Here’s where Obama drew the line on Bears Ears Monument

President Barack Obama on Wednesday designated the Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, culminating an eight-decade-long effort to increase protections on the ecologically diverse,...

DATE: Jan. 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

City signs lease for Lake Nighthorse

The Durango City Council approved a long-awaited lease Tuesday that will allow the city to manage recreation at Lake Nighthorse. “We have been waiting for this to be on the agenda since 2009,”...

DATE: Jan. 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

House Republicans want to repeal the ESA

The delta smelt, a tiny, silvery-blue fish hanging on for survival in California’s San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin estuary, is notorious among opponents of the Endangered Species Act....

DATE: Jan. 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ancient Chaco Canyon inhabitants relied on imported food

ALBUQUERQUE – Salty soils and dry conditions throughout northwestern New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon would have made it difficult to grow enough corn to sustain the multitudes of people who resided at...

DATE: Jan. 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

H.B. ‘Squire’ Wallace, ‘The Human Lead Mine’

H.B. Wallace, better known as “Squire’ Wallace, died at Dolores, Colorado. He was a pioneer cattleman in Southwest Colorado and probably carried more lead in his body that any other human being in...

DATE: Jan. 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Reconciling two views of a Hopi massacre

In “Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre,” historian James F. Brooks takes an in-depth look at the destruction of a large Hopi village by neighboring Hopis in 1700. In the first...

DATE: Jan. 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

2 Durango men arrested on suspicion of child sex assault

Two Durango men have been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child under the age of 15. Miles Nakai, 22, and Louis Denver Smith, 23, were each being held Tuesday at the La Plata County...

DATE: Jan. 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

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