Herald Staff Report

There’s a new angle to the LPEA scam

Scammers targeting La Plata Electric Association customers over allegedly past-due bills are taking a more sophisticated approach. Businesses in Archuleta and La Plata counties ar...

Tipton, Bennet will join Hermosa celebration

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton will join in a celebration of the passage of the Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act at noon Friday at the Powerhouse Science Center. ...

‘Echoes’: A life as wildlife officer

Retiree started career in Cortez

FLC lands lands first female recruits

Colorado Springs, Santa Fe standouts

Telluride newspaper sold to competitor

Telluride has joined the ranks of the one-newspaper-town club, more or less. The Telluride Daily Planet has purchased The Watch, bringing it into a family that also includes The N...

Colorado’s agriculture head is hanging up his hat

Had large part, too, in state’s politics

Raccoon causes power outage

A raccoon interfered with equipment at the La Plata Electric Association substation in Bodo Park early today, knocking out power to 450 customers in the La Posta Road area, south of Durango....

All tree-needle loss not the same

Evergreen trees shedding needles in the foothills in Southwest Colorado may be going through an annual ritual - not dying from bark beetles. Evergreens that are beginning to shed ...

Motorcyclist injured trying to avoid bear

A motorcyclist took a spill Monday morning trying to avoid a bear on U.S. Highway 160, about eight miles west of Hesperus. The accident occurred just before 9 a.m. The ...

Motorcyclist injured trying to avoid bear

A motorcyclist took a spill Monday morning trying to avoid a bear on U.S. Highway 160, about eight miles west of Hesperus. The accident occurred just before 9 a.m. The ...

Bayfield Fine in defeat

Two in the first and four in the second, the Montezuma-Cortez Panthers beat the Bayfield Wolverines’ boys soccer team 6-1 on Tuesday night in Cortez. Sam Kundrik assisted Colton ...

Demons ‘disappoint’ in home opener

After a 2-0 start to the Chelsea Rodriguez era at Durango High School, the only way to describe the head coach’s home debut was “disappointing.” “It was a really, really, really ...