Local businesses and agencies attempting to salvage Labor Day Weekend

Mama's Boy for sending food via train to firefighters battling La Plata County's most recent blaze

Moisture

The new "Welcome to Durango" sign at the junction of Highways 160 and 550. We don't love it, but it sure as hell beats the 1980's era, plywood monstrosity that once graced the spot.

Jeff Berman and Colorado Wild's mysterious referndum switcheroo..

The new concrete landing strip at the future site of Home Depot, south of town on Highway 550.

Visiting thugs from Pagosa and Dolores.

Reporter Eric Whitney's statement in an Aug. 14 National Public Radio story that Durango is an "isolated, sparsely populated corner of the state where a four-year drought is strangling agriculture, the other leg of the region's limited economy."