The Outdoor Industry Association threatening to pull its bi-annual Outdoor Retailer trade show from Salt Lake City if Gov. Gary Herbert doesn’t stop his takeover and planned pillaging of federal lands
Durangoan Todd Wells finishing 10th in the Olympic mountain bike competition on Sunday, a national and personal best for Wells, starring in his third Games
 
The City of Durango’s announcement that singlestream recycling could be a reality as soon as next spring
 

The recent rash of animal carnage on area roadways, including numerous deer and a handful of large bears
 

A new rash of wildfires raging across the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, spewing smoke and haze as far as Durango
 
July 2012 going down as the hottest July on record in the continental U.S., with an average temperature of 77.6 degrees, eclipsing the old record set during the Dust Bowl in 1936