Crime

Regional News

Third defendant in rock-throwing death sentenced

A jury found Joseph Koenig guilty on 19 counts, including first-degree murder

June 4, 2025

Local News

Cortez man who threatened to kill Colorado election official gets prison

Ty Brockbank blamed exposure to far-right content for motivating his online threats

May 29, 2025

Courts and Crime

Cortez man gets 15 years for sexual exploitation of a child, other charges

Anthony Mizell faces multiple felony counts after discovery of explicit content on seized phone

May 25, 2025

Local News

Arizona man sentenced for child sex assault in Silverton

Saunders allowed to post bail during appeal, upsetting prosecutors and victim

May 23, 2025

Local News

Durango police rescue fleeing suspect from Animas River

footage captures man’s struggle and safe return to shore

May 22, 2025

Local News

Montrose County man pleads guilty after dog cremation led to wildfire

Garber was charged in connection with the Bucktail Fire, which burned 7,000 acres

May 21, 2025

Local News

Durango man sentenced for shooting Farmington police officer

Buck to serve 10 years in N.M. state prison, on top of federal sentence

May 7, 2025

Regional News

Former Colorado postal employee admits to stealing ballots ahead of 2024 election

A ballot drop box outside the Mesa County Elections Clerk and Recorder’s office in Grand Junction, Colorado in 2022. (Hart…

May 6, 2025

Regional News

Trump signals for Department of Justice to try and free Tina Peters

‘Tina is an innocent Political Prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished,’ he wrote

May 6, 2025

Regional News

Sunset Mesa Funeral Home owners, convicted of selling body parts, get same sentences in resentencing

Instead of cremating bodies, mother and daughter duo sold remains and delivered fake cremains

April 23, 2025

Regional News

Colorado fights Trump administration’s bid to help imprisoned loyalist Tina Peters

U.S. Justice Department requested former elections clerk be freed while she appeals

April 23, 2025

Local News

Vandals, undeterred by fences, leave their mark at Bakers Bridge north of Durango

Graffiti on cliffs defaces natural landscape, upsets residents

April 22, 2025

Courts and Crime

Emergency alert sent to residents after domestic violence incident in Cortez

suspects arrested; man is found hiding in a closet

April 18, 2025

Regional News

Funeral home owner who left corpse in hearse for a over a year pleads guilty

Harford faced a dozen counts including four counts of abuse of a corpse

April 15, 2025

Courts and Crime

Cortez Police Department announces warrant for arrest of Duece Martinez

Martinez was sentenced in five cases in January

April 11, 2025

Local News

Who’s watching? In Durango, it’s a flock of license plate readers

Cameras allow police officers to access thousands of images from nationwide network

April 7, 2025

Local News

Durango duo fined for disturbing Canyonlands cultural site

to pay combined $1,550, barred from Utah federal lands for one year

April 3, 2025

Local News

Early morning gunshot shatters Durango Rec Center window

Brinkerhoff, 76, was arrested in connection with shooting

April 3, 2025

Regional News

Colorado ski coach charged with sexual assault of a minor

Frisco man was arrested in Taos, New Mexico

April 2, 2025

Regional News

Trump DOJ seeks 20-year sentence for Colorado man accused of Tesla arson

U.S. attorney general called the incident part of ‘a wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties’

April 2, 2025

The Durango Herald

Plea hearing for Cortez theft suspect rescheduled

Chowen arrested on suspicion of theft, identity theft, contributing to the delinquency of a minor

March 20, 2025

Courts and Crime

Man suspected in a Cortez car chase that injured an officer, woman and child

pursuit, officer hits car containing three people

March 18, 2025

Local News

Prosecutors to retry Ignacio cold case that resulted in hung jury last month

Hendren, 39, accused of shooting, killing Larry Fuller

March 8, 2025

Local News

Charges dismissed against Durango man accused of arson

Bradley Clark, 52, spent two years in prison in connection with fire at City Market

March 3, 2025