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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Winslow, Arizona, was all but forgotten when Interstate 40 displaced Route 66 and began whisking travelers around its downtown in the late 1970s. But it still had one thing going...
DATE: Jan. 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Chances are, in the new year, you won’t be trading hours of Netflix binge-watching to use that shiny new gym pass. It’s doubtful you’ll finally pick up that dusty first edition of Moby Dick to...
DATE: Dec. 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Many Navajos live in remote places far from utilities that most Americans take for granted. Some La Plata County residents have been traveling to the Navajo reservation to bring electric lights to...
DATE: Dec. 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Hoverboards, video games, iPhones. If you were a kid in 1915, you wouldn’t find any of these under your tree. And, despite what you may think, kids, a century ago, wouldn’t have seen a sad pile of...
DATE: Dec. 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
MONTICELLO, Utah – Sitting at the crossroads of the vast Colorado Plateau, this quaint town of 2,000 is surrounded by national parks, mountains, rivers and red rock canyons that define the region....
DATE: Dec. 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
A new documentary slated for a January release lays bare the rigid conflicts over water use along the drought-stricken Dolores River, as irrigators, rafters and others strive for some sort of...
DATE: Dec. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Prominent members of the Santa Ana and Acoma pueblos are concerned oil and gas development could destroy sacred sites in the Four Corners. During a panel discussion Saturday at the Crow Canyon...
DATE: Nov. 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
When the Wetherills arrived in the Mancos Valley in 1879, they brought a humanitarian ethic that clashed with Native American policy, says relative and historian Harvey Leake. Leake, whose...
DATE: Nov. 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Separated by 13,000 years, in a strange way, the Clovis people faced the same environmental issues we see today: radical climate change, mass extinction and changes to the world. Though removed by...
DATE: Nov. 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Western Colorado author Craig Childs will join filmmaker Larry Ruiz on Friday night for “Mammoths in Durango: A Multimedia Adventure into the Ice Age.” Childs is the author of more than 10 books,...
DATE: Nov. 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
From inside his small workshop in the unincorporated community of Marvel, horse trainer Orly Valencia has been perfecting the craft of making saddles intended for the long-haul cowboys on the...
DATE: Oct. 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Funds from a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant will be used in part to genetically identify historic apples grown in Montezuma County. In recent years, Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project...
DATE: Oct. 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
