Photo Galleries

Photo: Running hot and high

Photo: Chilly splash for local schools

Michele Steves jumps into the water at the Kiwanis of Mesa Verde Polar Plunge on March 11 to raise money for local schools. Billy McCoy, Dolores firefighter, won the $500…

Photo: Cruisin’ the Trail

With a little help from a friend, a skateboarder cruises Thursday along the Animas River Trail behind the Durango Public Library under clear skies and warm temperatures. Daytime high temperatures…

Photo: No trenches needed

Photos: Lunch with Bach

Photos: Sunshine, warm temperatures bring blossoms

Photo: An above-average day

Above-average temperatures are bringing out the anglers, and that was certainly true Saturday at Pastorius Reservoir, southeast of Durango. The National Weather Service is calling for nothing but sunshine and…

Photo: Out of control

Photo: Going Green Man

Amy Leonard, 16, reads some of her poetry to about 50 people on Saturday gathered at Northpoint Center for the second annual Green Man Festival sponsored by Mountain Medicine Acupuncture…

Photo: Whistlestopping

Chris Bettin, a candidate for Durango City Council, speaks from the back of a Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge train to about 50 people gathered Thursday near College Drive for…

DHS play Drop Dead

Durango High School’s Theatre Troupe 1096 was running through its production of the Billy Van Zandt/Jane Milmore play “Drop Dead.”

Photo: Fine weather for working

Sean Spainhower with the Rochester Hotel on East Second Avenue prepares the surface of the hotel’s balcony for painting. The clear skies and warm temperatures cooperated to make the outdoor…

Robert DeNier Youth Services Center

Robert DeNier Youth Services center in Durango has been closed for about a month because of a flood from a broken water pipe. Restoration work is underway and the center…

Photo: New wheels and lots of sunshine

It’s time to put away the sleds and get the new bikes like the ones Bronwyn, 2; and her brother Thomas, 5, are riding with mom, Moe Chamberlain, who is…

Robert Scott

25 years, Robert Scott has lived in a house four miles east of town on Florida Road where he’s also kept his workshop and housed his business repairing clocks and…

BHS boys Basketball

Bayfield battles Delta High School on Friday night during the first round of the Colorado High School Athletic Association 3A Regional Tournament at BHS.

Durango High School boys basketball

Durango High School boy's battle Evergreen High School in the Sweet 16 playoff game.

Photo: Sunshine is back

With a little help from his co-workers, Owen Dake of Skywalker Construction helps remove the awning from the former location of the Steaming Bean in the 900 block of Main…

Fort Lewis Mens Basketball

men's take on UCCS.

Photo: A growing business

Will Smith with Fast Signs hangs a new sign for the Living Tree Live Foods and Salad Bar restaurant on Main Avenue on Thursday.Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald

Durango boys basketball

Durango High School boy's basketball take on Elizabeth High School.

Bayfield boy’s basketball

Bayfield High School take on the Alamosa Mean Moose.

Photo: Brain Games

DHS Girls Basketball

Durango High School girl's basketball take on Thompson Valley High School.

Winter Bike to Work Day

city of Durango's annual Winter Bike to Work Day was held Friday in celebration of winter commuting. Bike commuters were greeted with coffee and breakfast snacks, free bicycle tune ups,…

Photos: Winter bicycling celebrated in Durango

A bicyclist rides along Main Avenue on Friday after stopping in front of Studio & for the city of Durango’s annual Winter Bike to Work Day celebration. Participants were treated…

FLC men’s basketball

Lewis College men's basketball take on Adams State University.

NASA snow study

is finishing a three-week expedition in Silverton and Grand Mesa to develop techniques of measuring snow.

Photo: Shadow walker

A long shadow is cast from a walker on the Animas River Trail Tuesday afternoon as she emerges from the underpass of North Main Avenue under party cloudy skies and…

Photo: Family time

Rustin Bartel holds his 4-year-old son, Colt, who was enjoying the day off from school on Monday at the Durango Community Recreation Center,Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald