Reuben Schafir

The federal government is lurching toward a shutdown and will run out of funding at 12:01 a.m. Sunday if lawmakers fail to pass legislation to keep it open. The effects of a shutdown would be wide-ran...

An executive order signed Thursday by Gov. Jared Polis directs the Colorado Department of Natural Resources to work with other state agencies to keep national parks and public lands open in the event ...

Gov. Jared Polis stopped in Durango Monday for a lunch with local leaders. Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, all three La Plata County Commissioners, most of Durango City Council, Rep. Barbara McLachlan and ...

La Plata County Finance Director Adam Rogers informed Durango City Council and the Board of County Commissioners Monday that he was anticipating a countywide slowdown in sales tax revenue. The two bod...

Silverton residents voted Tuesday to reject an amendment to the municipal code that would have allowed off-highway vehicles on specified streets, including the town’s two busiest thoroughfares. The “n...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is putting out the call for anglers in Durango: Huck Finn Pond is about to be dredged, so come catch as many fish as you can. The pond, which sits just east of Main Ave. ne...

The La Plata Board of County Commissioners took its first deep dive into the proposed 2024 budget Thursday. Members of the public may offer public comment on the document Tuesday before the board. The...

Ballots will hit mailboxes in a little over a week and put forth several questions to voters, of which the most hotly debated is Proposition HH. Although it has ostensibly been billed as a property ta...

There is a problem mountain town residents are all too familiar with: short-term rentals owned by out-of-state investors cause property values to skyrocket while they shrink the amount of housing avai...

Like a battered engine coming to a quiet standstill, so too ended a yearslong conversation on the annual demolition derby held during the La Plata County Fair. The verdict? The derby may no longer b...