There’s a new-old face behind the counter at 6th Street Liquor. Former resident and Fort Lewis College graduate Jared Thomson and wife, Amy, bought the venerable downtown “packie” liquor store last ...

State Sen. Larry Liston, a Republican from El Paso County, has carried a lonely torch during the last two legislative sessions. His bills that proposed to classify nuclear energy as “clean” in ...

Many of us choose to live in Durango for the diverse outdoor recreation opportunities. Imagine what it would be like without the dedicated one-half cent sales tax authorized by voters in 2005 for the ...

The “Fix Our Forests Act” (H.R.471) may sound like a good plan, but look closer. Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Grand Junction, co-sponsored this bill and helped push it through the House. The Senate will vote on ...

Backed by venture capital, Thurston’s Pocket Media bought Backpacker, SKI and Climbing in 2020. He purchased Outside from longtime owner Larry Burke in 2021 and also bought Pinkbike, Gaia and numerous ...

The Fix Our Forests Act (HR 471) if passed will not fight wildfires or fix our forests despite the cheery title of this dangerous act. The act prioritizes logging interests over proven community ...

Thinking that perhaps I had missed a statement or comment from Hurd in the media, I checked the most recent press releases on his website and found nothing there indicating he had raised his voice (or ...

NPS is soliciting public comment through Feb. 15. You can put in your 2 centavos (or more) at: tinyurl.com/yckddccc. If ...

We are living in an era where it is commonplace to be told and to widely believe that we are a divided populace living in a polarized political environment. There is surely some truth in that. And yet ...

Although Proposition 127 to ban trophy hunting of mountain lions and trapping bobcats was not passed in November, many people spoke at the January meeting of CPW in support of the two commissioners ...

A bipartisan bill intended to manage and improve forests on federal land, increase resilience to wildfires and boost forest restoration projects, H.R. 471 Fix Our Forests Act, was passed recently in ...