The La Plata County Coroner’s Office has identified a man who went missing earlier this month before being found dead in Hermosa Creek as Cory Ireland of Durango. Ireland, 33, was found after a three...

CARLBAD, N.M. (AP) — U.S. officials are pushing state regulators to clear the way for a new ventilation shaft to be built at the federal government’s nuclear waste repository in southern New Mexico, but watchdog groups say modifying the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant’s permit to allow for the construction could open the door to expansion.

As bad as last year’s record-shattering fire season was, the western U.S. starts this year’s in even worse shape. The soil in the West is record dry for this time of year. In much of the region, plan...

Colorado Democrats on Monday unveiled the broad strokes of how they plan to spend $3.8 billion in federal coronavirus stimulus money being sent to state government, prioritizing affordable housing, wo...

Firefighters are responding to a wildfire burning in the Taylor Mesa area of the San Juan National Forest northeast of Dolores. The Gould Fire was reported Sunday afternoon and has grown to 20 acres, ...

Opening Intermountain League play with a home doubleheader against Bayfield High School on May 22, the Montezuma-Cortez High School baseball team had no trouble smashing the ball to all areas of the f...

Starting Monday, Southwest Memorial Hospital will allow patients to have two “designated companions” accompany them for all medical services. According to an announcement on Facebook, temperature scre...

Friends and family of Mancos High School’s 30-student graduation class converged on the campus football field for a sunny send-off Sunday afternoon. The ceremony took place after a year in which the d...