Recognized as a "climate saver" by the EPA and a "climate innovator" by Time magazine, Schendler’s work for the planet has ...

Interesting fact: Seven percent of so-called adult Americans claim that they do not tip at all. Pretty sure every one of them sat in my section back in the day.

Durango School District 9-R could learn a lesson in courage from Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish student activist who was awarded Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year. Ms. Thunberg, who has ...

Hidden beneath subalpine meadows in Colorado’s Flattop Mountains lies a subterranean wonderland, the true extent of which has yet to be realized. Of the area’s numerous caverns, Groaning Cave stands ...

• Burt Baldwin – Regular contributor to this fine paper, published author and poet, longtime educator in the Ignacio School District as well as Fort Lewis College. He is a recipient of the Governor’s ...

To the next District 59 representative, good luck. Remember who you represent, laugh so you don’t cry, work on both sides of the aisle, take advantage of every opportunity, join every committee you ...

I wish to assure the frazzled mountain biker quoted in the July 27 “Ear to the Ground” that my great-great grandfather, the honorable James Harvey Pinkerton, was not some kind of asshole. The intrepid ...

And speaking of biking, there’s good news for those who are, shall we say, vertically averse. The City of Durango announced this week it is adding a new connector trail in the Twin Buttes system. The ...

Myriad proposals to tap lithium deposits in southeastern Utah are progressing from conceptual to exploratory phases. But they are running up against a familiar obstacle in these arid parts: concern ...

Please consider voting no on the City of Durango ballot issue 2A $200 million tax increase. There are other avenues that the city can explore to fund infrastructure and capital improvements that they ...

A yes vote on Proposition 127 will protect bobcats, lynx and mountain lions from hunting and trapping in Colorado. It will allow the killing of these animals under certain circumstances, such as ...

As wildlife scientists devoted to rigorous independent research, we wish to inform Coloradans what the best peer-reviewed and published science says about mountain lion and bobcat trophy hunting.