Durango cyclist Sepp Kuss will compete in his third Tour de France, and this year, Kuss and his Jumbo Visma teammates are going after the yellow jersey. “I’m looking forward to it,” Kuss said. “At fir...

Durangoan Quinn Simmons will make his Tour de France debut this year with Trek Segafredo when the race starts Friday in Copenhagen, Denmark. “It’s pretty cool,” Simmons said. “It’s something I’ve wai...

The La Plata County Humane Society says it is in “desperate” need of foster care, adoptions and volunteers to help care for more than 50 dogs during the shelter’s renovation beginning next week. Renov...

ALBUQUERQUE – With little ceremony, it was lights out Thursday for one of the two remaining units at a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico that has provided electricity for millions of c...

In the days after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Colorado-based reproductive rights groups – including Cobalt, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Organi...

Lightning started a wildfire 7 miles north of Norwood Wednesday night. The 2-acre Horsefly Park Fire is burning on the south side of Patterson Mountain in the Horsefly drainage in Montrose County, acc...

Rico will hold a three-day Fourth of July celebration featuring a slate of events topped including fireworks Monday night. The San Juan National Forest announced Thursday that it has rescinded its Sta...

CORTEZ Saturday, July 30 First Baptist Church of Cortez Garage Sale, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., North and Market streets. Everything is free. Monday, Aug. 1 Cool Science, 10:30 a.m. & 2:30 p.m., Cortez Pub...

The Montezuma-Cortez school board voted Wednesday night to close Manaugh Elementary School but delay closing Pleasant View Elementary School until 2023. The delay of the Pleasant View closure gives pa...

Noxious weeds are notoriously difficult to control and in many cases nearly impossible to eradicate, which is why agencies in La Plata County turn to a powerful tool in their fight against invasive pl...