About 100 firefighters continued to battle the Bear Dance fire on Saturday, a wildfire that flared to life just after noon Friday and threatened the town of Ignacio and the Southern Ute Tribal campus in southwest Colorado. Fire crews were working to set a perimeter around the fire that had by 3:40 p.m. Saturday consumed […]
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Durango & Silverton railroad will pay feds $20 million for 416 fire damage, stop using coal to power summer trains
By Aedan Hannon, The Durango Herald The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and its parent company, American Heritage Railways, will pay $20 million to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from the 416 fire. Separately, lawyers for 40 La Plata and San Juan county businesses and landowners that sued the tourist railway to recoup losses […]
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10-year-old girl was killed by plague in southwest Colorado
By Shannon Mullane, The Durango Herald A 10-year-old girl from La Plata County is the first person to die from plague in Colorado since 2015, San Juan Basin Public Health officials confirmed Friday afternoon. Although public health officials did not identify the victim, in a letter emailed Thursday to members of the 4-H Weaselskin Club, […]
Posted inEnvironment, News
Colorado River cutthroat trout restored to Hermosa Creek near Durango
By Jonathan Romeo, The Durango Herald DURANGO — A decades-long effort to restore the Colorado River cutthroat trout to the upper reaches of Hermosa Creek has been completed, resulting in the largest continuous stretch of waterway for the native fish species in the state. “This is a 35-plus-year vision come true,” said Jim White, an […]
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Lauren Boebert discusses, defends her backstory during Durango visit
By Patrick Armijo, The Durango Herald DURANGO — Lauren Boebert defended herself against the latest attacks that her origin story – growing up collecting welfare in a Democratic household while learning the Republican values of hard work at McDonald’s – is misleading. In a visit Tuesday to Durango, Boebert, the Republican candidate for 3rd Congressional […]
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Woman taking refuge in southwest Colorado church hits 1,000 day mark
By Mary Shinn, The Durango Herald MANCOS — When longtime Cortez resident Rosa Sabido first sought sanctuary from deportation in Mancos United Methodist Church more than 1,000 days ago, she expected to stay for a few weeks to a year. As the fight for her legal residency stretched into years, she decided she would not […]
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Judge: Federal government’s lawsuit against Durango railroad over 2018 wildfire should proceed
By Jonathan Romeo, The Durango Herald DURANGO — In what could be a major blow to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, a federal judge has recommended that a district court throw out the train’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit in which the U.S. government is seeking $25 million for fighting the 416 Fire. […]