Veterans affairs

Local News

Veterans group gets busy this weekend with beekeeper workshop

Homestead Project offers agricultural training to combat PTSD

January 11, 2018

Local News

Cortez turns out for Veterans Day parade

than 20 organizations participate in Veterans Day parade

November 11, 2017

Local News

Fireworks, community celebration planned for Veterans Day

Lightner Creek Fire first-responders will be acknowledged

November 7, 2017

Local News

Finding care for veterans in rural Colorado

some parts of the state, care suffers as Veterans Administration searches for providers

October 28, 2017

Local News

State parks free to veterans, military in August

Admission to state parks in Colorado, including Navajo State Park, will be free for veterans and members of the military…

July 28, 2017

Nation & World

VFW slams House plan to fix VA budget gap as hurting vets

World War II veteran Sam Greenberg dabs his eyes during an emotional moment at the Korea War program at the…

July 24, 2017

Nation & World

Pilot’s remains back on US soil from Vietnam after 52 years

Deborah Crosby, now 58, was only six when she was sent home from the first grade to learn her father…

May 28, 2017

Regional News

Pot pioneer Colorado just now taking look at PTSD treatment

Farmworkers remove stems and leaves from newly harvested marijuana plants, at Los Sueños Farms, America’s largest legal open air marijuana…

January 31, 2017

Local News

Veterans’ Services Office to close for winter holidays

The La Plata County Veterans’ Services Office, 1970 East Third Ave., Suite 102, will be closed from Friday to Jan.…

December 21, 2016

Regional News

Justice Department considers probe of VA perjury allegations

In this April 18, 2015, photo, a construction crew works on concrete forms at the Veterans Administration hospital complex construction…

December 13, 2016

Local News

One man’s leadership fuels Elks breakfast benefiting veterans

help funds veterans housing

November 28, 2016

Local News

Hundreds turn out for parade to honor veterans

Politics set aside as crowd applauds those who served

November 11, 2016

Local News

Volunteers of America housing veterans in need

“We are finally seeing that long-term change in people’s lives. It’s fantastic,” said Rachel Bauske, the Volunteers of America Southwest…

November 10, 2016

Local News

Veterans Day parade entry forms available at the VFW

Dick Messier, center, and Bob Jones, second from right, are part of the color guard that led the 2012 Veterans…

November 8, 2016

Local News

Veterans Day Parade planned Friday

Entries still being taken

November 6, 2016

Local News

‘Almost Sunrise’ to be shown Nov. 15 in Durango

“Almost Sunrise” directed by Michael Collins, a film that tells the story of two Iraq War veterans who find a…

November 3, 2016

Regional News

Feds probe unofficial VA wait lists in Colorado

Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., speaks to members of the media following a U.S. Senate delegation tour of the over-budget Veterans…

October 20, 2016

Local News

Four Corners Veterans Stand Down offers services, comradery

Sometimes coming home means new fights

October 6, 2016

Local News

Veterans Stand Down slated for Thursday

Regional vets will have access to food, services

October 3, 2016

Regional News

After subpoena, VA turns over documents on costly hospital

The documents were on a CD submitted to the House Veterans Affairs Committee, but it wasn’t immediately known whether they…

September 29, 2016

Regional News

Inquiry finds ‘gross mismanagement’ in VA hospital

Federal investigators say “gross mismanagement,” delays and lax oversight by the Veterans Affairs Department added hundreds of millions of dollars…

September 21, 2016

Local News

Legislative panel backs marijuana for PTSD

Favorable sign for bill proposed for upcoming session

September 21, 2016

Local News

Final Gold Star Parents Weekend slated

A “Hall of Heroes” photograph of fallen Colorado service members from 2000 to 2016 will also be on display at…

September 18, 2016

Regional News

Lavish features cut from over-budget Denver VA hospital

Facility expected to open in early 2018

June 29, 2016