South Metro Fire Rescue respond to vegetation fire on Mary Carter Greenway Trail By Elizabeth Hernandez July 7, 2025 at 7:54 p.m. South Metro Fire Rescue and Littleton Police responded to a vegetation fire on the Mary...
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad to pay feds $20 million over 416 fire By Sam Tabachnik March 22, 2022 at 11:54 a.m. The historic Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has agreed to pay $20 million and...
Close calls, or worse, spark push for wildfire mitigation in La Plata County By The Durango Herald June 6, 2021 at 1:18 p.m. As the Missionary Ridge Fire raged in 2002, the Valley Fire, a second fire, broke...
New Four Corners weather radar system to be built near Durango By The Associated Press September 29, 2020 at 5:54 p.m. The location of a new permanent weather station for the Four Corners region has been...
Fact check: Hickenlooper says “we didn’t go on vacation” during wildfires, but he took vacation time By Justin Wingerter September 18, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. U.S. Senate candidate John Hickenlooper, who has criticized Sen. Cory Gardner for taking a “vacation”...
Judge refuses to allow Durango train to resume fire mitigation, bridge repair projects By The Associated Press July 16, 2020 at 5:59 a.m. A federal judge denied the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s plea to resume a...
Coal-fired Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad converting to oil By Jonathan Romeo February 24, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has debuted its first locomotive that runs on...
Lawsuit against railroad over wildfire should proceed, judge rules By Jonathan Romeo December 31, 2019 at 12:57 p.m. In what could be a major blow to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad,...
Colorado’s biggest stories of the past decade By The Denver Post December 31, 2019 at 3:50 p.m. In the last 10 years, Colorado legalized marijuana, saw a population boom, grieved mass shootings...
Colorado’s Animas River suffers high fish deaths due to wildfire ash By The Associated Press September 22, 2019 at 8:08 p.m. Officials say fish populations in a Colorado river have been severely depleted due to suffocation...