Author – The Durango Herald

Colorado is having one of its worst grasshopper infestations in recent history. Here’s what people are doing about it.

The insects are chewing through lettuce in city gardens and mowing down farmers’ crops on the plains

DATE: Sep 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Tiny, endangered toads transplanted to Colorado pond successfully breed after 7 years

Biologists are thrilled at discovery of Boreal tadpoles in a bog in the mountains

DATE: Aug 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Federal land managers are planning Colorado’s next wild horse roundup, ignoring pleas to stop using a helicopter

The BLM’s management plan for the Little Book Cliffs near Palisade calls for removing about 100 horses with a helicopter roundup

DATE: May 18, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado won’t legalize raw milk this year after proposal spoils in legislature

State has some of the strictest raw milk laws in the West

DATE: Apr 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News

Thousands of Venezuelan migrants in Denver want to work but can’t afford the $545 federal application fee

Rose Community Foundation is raising funds to help migrants with the application fee and Gov. Jared Polis had asked the feds to waive it

DATE: Nov 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Business

An old-fashioned newspaper war inspired by modern politics is raging in Westcliffe and dividing readers

While many Colorado communities are losing their local newspapers, Custer County readers are divided between a traditional, 100-year-old paper and a right-wing newcomer

DATE: Oct 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Entire Western Colorado wild horse herd removed from range in helicopter roundup

All 122 horses in the West Douglas area were captured in the roundup, with four euthanized and the rest headed to holding pens in Cañon City

DATE: Sep 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado has 100s more wild horses than the feds say it should. So volunteers are hitting them with fertility darts

The long-term goal is to control the mustang population on the state’s four herd-management areas with fertility control

DATE: Jul 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado to continue prosecuting children as young as 10

The proposal to raise the juvenile prosecution age except in murder cases stalled in Senate

DATE: May 9, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado hospitals that refuse services, like tying tubes, will have to say so publicly

Legislation will require providers to notify patients about certain types of care they do not provide

DATE: May 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ousted Behavioral Health chief cites ‘lack of support’ from governor’s office

State’s human services director will take over for Dr. Morgan Medlock

DATE: Apr 19, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Psychologists will be eligible to prescribe mental health medication

Polis signs House Bill 1071 despite objection from psychiatrists, who are medical doctors

DATE: Mar 4, 2023 | CATEGORY: Local News