Silverton

Have an opinion about how trails and motorized routes should be handled around Silverton? Now is the time to voice it. The Bureau of Land Management has been re-evaluating its system of 45 miles of...

Todd Hennis, owner of the Gold King Mine, is not happy about the proposed Superfund cleanup around Silverton, saying the suggestion to plug more mines only redistributes potentially toxic water and...

SILVERTON – A cacophony of yips and yowls filled the bitter winter air Saturday, as racers and their dogs took their places at the starting line again and again during the Silverton Flying Sled Dog...

It was a rough weekend for Silverton. A fire Saturday night destroyed a historic building on Greene Street, taking firefighters nearly 17 hours to douse and prevent it from spreading to adjacent...

Silverton’s 2020 skijoring race is officially a go. In November, event organizers said they needed to raise about $10,000 by Dec. 15 or there likely wouldn’t be an event this winter. Karen Sites,...

How should the Environmental Protection Agency start the massive cleanup of mines leaching heavy metals into the headwaters of the Animas River around Silverton? That’s what the agency wants to...

Organizers for Silverton’s annual skijoring race say they need to raise about $10,000 by Dec. 15 or there likely won’t be an event this winter. Every Presidents Day weekend in February, Silverton...

A Farmington man who shot and killed a moose that he mistook for an elk near Silverton last year has been fined $1,000 as a result of the incident, but state wildlife officials decided not to ban...

Last winter’s deep snow may have delayed Silverton’s summer, but as the last train from Durango rolled into the old mining town Saturday, it was easy for many to say 2019 has been first-rate. “I...

A Silverton man was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing after threatening a police officer with a knife. According to an arrest affidavit, San Juan County Sheriff Bruce Conrad responded to a...

A new route for dirt bikes is being proposed in the San Juan Mountains, which some Silverton locals fear will compromise one of the last quiet, unmotorized places in the nearby backcountry. “Minnie...