55-year-old Ned Overend’s victory capping off a truly classic Iron Horse Bicycle Classic and making for a memorable 40th edition of the race


Durango schools getting a $200,000 scholarship from the Marc and Jane Katz Family Fund to help maintain academic excellence in the current budget crunch

The recent completion of Florida Road construction marking the end of a long and bumpy road for many local residents

The dam masters at McPhee Reservoir serving up an abridged Dolores River season – less than two weeks – in spite of the best spring snowpack in recent memory  

A massive wildfire season taking shape south of the Colorado border with more than a dozen large blazes currently raging in Arizona and New Mexico

The Western Caucus, led by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introducing legislation that would remove wilderness and roadless protection from nearly 43 million acres of public lands

In this week's issue...

May 15, 2025
End of the trail

Despite tariff pause, Colorado bike company can’t hang on through supply chain chaos

May 8, 2025
Shared pain

Dismal trend highlights need to cut usage in Upper Basin, too

April 24, 2025
A tale of two bills

Nuclear gets all the hype, but optimizing infrastructure will have bigger impact