SILVERTON Historically, law-enforcement officers are men of action, not letters. But in Silverton, where new San Juan County Sheriff Bruce Conrad writes for the Silverton Standard & the Miner,...

The Animas River Stakeholders Group – an un-elected volunteer group that for two decades has been at the center of the debate about how to address the pollution gushing out of Silverton’s defunct...

As communities along the Animas River continue to wonder about the long-term consequences of the Gold King Mine spill, one of the biggest questions remaining is the orange sediment lying along...

Law enforcement’s announcement Wednesday that Mark Redwine is a person of interest in the death of his teenage son reignited social-media vigilantes who for three years have urged his arrest and,...

Even after a lifetime of regular checkups, for adults, visiting a doctor’s office can be fraught with anxiety, self-consciousness and irrational fear. The feeling of a cold stethoscope on your...

A small fire is burning between Pagosa Springs and Bayfield, but fires in the Pacific Northwest are the source of the haze blurring the usually sharp silhouette of the San Juan Mountains. Locally,...

On Tuesday, GOP presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson made a lightning trip to Durango to decry the Environmental Protection Agency before a crowd of thousands at Rotary Park overlooking the...

Since 3 million gallons of orange sludge descended on Durango on Aug. 5, the levels of metals pollution in the Animas River around Durango looks to have returned to normal. But in terms of...

SILVERTON Three million gallons of sludge rushed out of Gold King Mine last week, flooding the Animas River with higher levels of metals than usual, causing economic and environmental damage in...

As about 1 million gallons of toxic sludge makes its way from Gold King Mine down the Animas River, scientists, politicians and Durango residents are bracing for the environmental fallout. At a...