Tubing season is here, but have no shuttle fear. The City of Durango has announced DuranGO! Outside, an on-demand “microtransit” service providing transportation to and from popular recreational areas ...

The formerly private 30-acre Needles Trail inholding was purchased by The Wilderness Land Trust late last year and recently ...

Local business owner Elizabeth Philbrick was sworn in Wed., July 2, as the newest member of La Plata County’s Board of ...

If the Big Dumb Bill is approved by the spineless House Republicans, it will kick millions of the poorest Americans off Medicaid and basically decimate the Affordable Care Act – but not until after ...

Busting out all over 07/03/2025 Speaking of, uh, sacks, don’t look now, but the Speedo is back. For men. We told you not to look. According to an article by Max Berlinger in the New York Times, skimpy ...

To develop a commercial property in La Plata County, a land use permit is required to obtain a building permit. The La Plata Land Use Code (LPLUC) defines all land uses other than residential as ...

A recent story in the Durango Herald discussed stormwater infrastructure. In that article, our director of public works, Bob Lowry, stated that over the last 10 years, $2.8 million has been spent on ...

After checking in this past week with a diversity of local residents I concluded that I wasn’t the only person wondering why our newly elected Congressperson Jeff Hurd wasn’t standing up to raise his ...

Life in America has changed for the worse. Congress has long abdicated its constitutional powers as enumerated in Article 1, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. Congress was granted the power to ...

Last week, in the wee hours of the morning, the House passed a budget bill that will cut $700 billion from Medicaid and $500 billion from Medicare. If this bill passes the Senate, millions of people ...

McClain has worked for the City for 19 years, starting in 2006 as a landscape architect. He was promoted to parks manager in 2016 and has served as assistant parks director since 2017. If it seems ...

Colorado currently ranks 12th in the nation for installed solar capacity and seventh for solar jobs. The value of the statewide solar market is $8.1 billion, with more than 4,200 megawatts of ...