The long-awaited monsoon cycle leading to La Plata County lifting its fire ban this week and giving a bump to rafting season to the Animas River

A federal judge finding there was no basis for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to arbitrarily excluded large swaths of Colorado, Idaho and Montana from becoming critical habitat for lynx
La Plata, Archuleta, Dolores, Montezuma, and San Juan Counties all teaming up to create affordable housing in Southwest Colorado
Durangoans who suffer from extremely short-term memory and have already started complaining that it’s been raining too much
Fatal climbing accidents striking the region with three deaths in two weeks in separate accidents on nearby El Diente and Crestone Needle
The year 2010 already standing in second place, just behind 2007, for the largest number of high-temperature records worldwide