Barbara Noseworthy, a strategic planning consultant, plans to focus on promoting job creation, jump-starting affordable housing development and addressing homelessness if elected to Durango City...

Restaurant workers face high-pressure, low pay, odd hours and sometimes unrelenting working conditions. As a result, those employees tend to be more susceptible to stress, unhealthy drinking habits...

Tyr Persson enrolled his daughter in day care at Christ the King Lutheran Church in mid-December, weeks before the early learning center announced it was closing. “I was relieved that I found it,...

About a third of teenagers in La Plata County and across Colorado are experiencing prolonged feelings of sadness or hopelessness, according to state data. The 2017 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey ...

A report from the Colorado Attorney General’s Office shows that disconnection from caring adults, social media use and exclusion from extracurricular activities, among many other factors, are...

Flu season in Colorado is less severe than the record-setting flu season the state experienced last year, according to state health officials. Statewide, 960 people have been hospitalized with flu...

The city of Durango has high expectations for Lake Nighthorse’s second season after a somewhat rocky first year with lower-than-expected revenue and visitation. The lake was closed for nine days...

Durango’s domestic violence shelter, the Volunteers of America Southwest Safehouse, experienced a steep increase in the number of people served in 2017. The Safehouse is a secure, hidden shelter...

Nakeia and James Muñoz spent a month living in their Subaru with their 11-year-old daughter sharing a blanket and pillow before they moved into the Volunteers of America Durango Community Shelter....

Christ the King Lutheran Church will close its early childhood learning center next week because of declining enrollment. The Children’s World Early Learning Center will serve its 14 enrolled...

Cold temperatures kept recent snow light and fluffy, preventing widespread power outages that heavy, wet snow can deliver. A loose power line near 32nd Street and Main Avenue was responsible for...