Even though Republican Brian Jack is only a first-term congressman, he has become a regular in the Oval Office these days. As ...

The death of two U.S. service members and one American civilian in an attack in Syria by an alleged member of the Islamic State group has drawn new attention to the presence of American ...

As County commissioners from Montezuma and La Plata counties with multigenerational histories in the Dolores River Basin, we ...

Construction season usually begins in the spring and ends in the fall. But lately in Durango, it seems to have lasted years.

We have less than six weeks to go before the 2026 legislative session, so I’d like to give an overview of my bills for the ...

I have good news for John Rankin (Letters, Herald, Dec. 5), who is concerned that losing local delivery of the print edition of the Sunday Denver Post further estranges Durango from our state. The ...

Colorado faces a difficult choice: transition off fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy or continue to jeopardize our environment and health. But transition inevitably comes with economic and ...

Long before facial recognition software and mass surveillance, many cultures understood photography as an act of power – something taken, not given. Whether framed as spiritual loss or cultural ...

I’m writing to urge the community to let the conversation begin around battery storage systems. Batteries are part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that can enable energy autonomy, lower rates ...

When President Trump labeled Somali immigrants “garbage,” he weaponized presidential power to diminish an entire community. As novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned in her TED Talk “The Danger of ...

Durango’s recent effort to enforce business licensing and sales-tax collection at small Christmas craft fairs is a mistake, both practically and culturally. These events are not commercial operations ...

In Joyce Vance’s new book, “Giving Up Is Unforgivable,” her information on Finland’s media literacy projects really reached out and grabbed my attention (see page 144 plus end notes). By empowering ...