Criminal charges being filed in BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill nearly two years later, with BP engineer Kurt Mix accused of destroying evidence of the real magnitude of the largest oil spill in U.S. history
 
This week’s crowning of Fort Lewis College student Jess Rae Growing Thunder, 22, a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribes of Montana, as Miss Indian World 2012
The Animas River Trail taking another step toward completion, with a $500,000 grant for the 29th to 32nd connector as well as the imminent opening of the “Mall Corner”
Monday’s apparent senior prank wreaking communitywide havoc, leaving kids stranded at the bus stop and working parents scrambling to find child care
 

The New Jersey woman arrested on charges of child abuse for bringing her 5-year-old to a tanning booth, where she sustained sunburns across her entire body
 
The Catholic church threatening to pull funding for locally based immigrant advocacy group Compañeros because it is affiliated with the Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition, which supports gay rights
 

In this week's issue...

December 18, 2025
Let it snow

Although ski areas across the West have taken a hit, there’s still hope 

December 18, 2025
Look, but don't take

Lessons in pottery theft – and remorse – from SW Colorado

December 11, 2025
Big plans

Whole Foods, 270 apartments could be coming to Durango Mall parcel