Author – The Durango Herald

Heading to these three states? Quarantine might be in the cards

New York, Connecticut and New Jersey asked Wednesday for travelers from states with high coronavirus infection rates to go into quarantine for 14 days in a bid to preserve hard-fought gains ...

DATE: Jun 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Summer camp is newest front in battle with measles outbreak

ALBANY, N.Y. – The battle to contain the worst U.S. measles outbreak in 27 years has a new front: summer camp. Vaccinations have been made mandatory this summer for campers and st...

DATE: Jun 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

To combat drug crisis, spiritual first responders hit streets

Sidewalk prayers near shoot-up spots. Sunday sermons in the back of a bar. Pleas to struggling souls to surrender to God. Funerals for members of their flock who didn’t make it. C...

DATE: Nov 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Dig it: Archaeologists scour Woodstock ’69 concert field

BETHEL, N.Y. – Archaeologists scouring the grassy hillside famously trampled during the 1969 Woodstock music festival carefully sifted through the dirt from a time of peace, love, protest an...

DATE: Jun 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

After the lights dim, Rockefeller Center Christmas trees still give

Rockefeller Center spruce used in Habitat for Humanity homes

DATE: Dec 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Niagara Falls is the latest natural wonder to add zip line

Niagara Falls is the latest natural wonder to add a zip line, offering honeymooners and everyone else the chance to take an adrenaline-pumping plunge toward churning mist at speeds topping 4...

DATE: Aug 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

Former slaves to be reburied with honor

14 bodies were found accidentally 11 years ago

DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Ice man climbeth

Adirondack climber knows ice cold, wrote book on it

DATE: Mar 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

Food cooperatives hit by state labor laws

Co-op programs threatened by state labor-law

DATE: Jan 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Spirit of St. Louis replica soars 88 years after Lindbergh

RHINEBECK, N.Y. – Charles Lindbergh would instantly recognize the plane with “Spirit of St. Louis” painted on its nose rumbling above treetops in New York’s Hudson Valley. There’s a 9-cylind...

DATE: Dec 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

A school of rock takes root in Woodstock

College-age students to learn all aspects of music business

DATE: Oct 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education

Prison worker who helped 2 killers escape gets up to 7 years

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – A remorseful, tearful former prison worker who helped two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup by providing them with tools was sentenced Monday to u...

DATE: Sep 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World