The local launch of “Home Grown,” a mortgage-assistance program that could help as many as 500 locals into homes over the next five years

The decommissioning of four dams on Oregon’s Klamath River and a ray of hope for free-flowing rivers throughout the West
The new Durango Public Library celebrating its “topping out” on Monday and making strides toward completion
Durango residents who have made absolutely no effort to remove the snow and ice from their sidewalks
The arrival of a “Brave New World” with the recent FDA approval of food for human consumption from cloned animals
Mounting evidence that global warming is worsening with 2007 going down as the second warmest year in recorded history