I wish to assure the frazzled mountain biker quoted in the July 27 “Ear to the Ground” that my great-great grandfather, the honorable James Harvey Pinkerton, was not some kind of asshole. The intrepid ...

Hidden beneath subalpine meadows in Colorado’s Flattop Mountains lies a subterranean wonderland, the true extent of which has yet to be realized. Of the area’s numerous caverns, Groaning Cave stands ...

I want to commend Allen Best and The Telegraph for publishing the article on the merits of preserving dark skies in the Jan 12, 2017, issue. As someone who has been an enthusiastic and contributing ...

It’s happening earlier and earlier every year. At the start of the new millennium, the black bears living around Durango typically started emerging from their winter dens around mid-April. Today, ...

In regard to the upcoming primary election for La Plata County Treasurer, I would like to make the important distinction between speaking “negatively” of an elected official versus holding one ...

OK, so maybe Tuesday did not go the way some of us would have liked, but it at least was a win for abortion rights in several states, including Arizona, Missouri, Colorado and Montana, which either ...

Fort Lewis College – home to the Skyhawks, national champions in bicycling, soccer and ... ice hockey. Wait, wha? OK, maybe that last one is a bit of a stretch. For now. But an infusion of new blood ...

I look forward to reading Jonathan Thompson’s new book River of Lost Souls, about the Gold King Mine disaster. The popular myth is that the river was named after members of a party of Spanish ...

There’s a theory that floats around Durango that if you live in our small city even once, and if you ever attempt to move away, you’ll always return. Resident Dan Korman is no exception. He’s the ...