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Photos: Keeping spirits up

4 Corners Cyclocross Series

compete in the 4 Corners Cyclocross Series race on Saturday at Durango Mesa.

Photo: Pagosa Hot Springs – Ca. 1885

In the Southern Ute language “pah gosah” translates to “healing waters” or possibly as a Ute elder once translated the…

Durango football state quarterfinal win

Durango High School defeats Lutheran High School on Saturday in the quarter final playoff game at DHS.

Photos: Lottery winners ski a day before official opening at Purgatory Resort

Photo: Fairgrounds COVID-19 testing site can serve up to 250 people a day

Staff members with San Juan Basin Public Health and the La Plata County Emergency Operations Center close down the new…

Photo: Silverton Gladstone & Northerly RR –1905

Most people know that the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad built the line from Durango into Silverton, but many are…

Durango High School football

Durango High School football defeats Canon City High School on Friday night at DHS.

Photo: Grooming the slopes at Purgatory Resort

Sam Williams, director of mountain operations at Purgatory Resort, drives a snowcat while grooming snow Thursday morning at the ski…

Photo: Jets fly over Durango on Veterans Day

Four F-16 jets head toward Durango on Wednesday to fly over Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4031 in honor of…

Photos: Lake Nighthorse to close for the season Nov. 15

Photo: Southern Ute Bear Dance – Ca. 1918

Though undated, this picture taken in Ignacio is thought to be from around 1918. The Bear Dance is a Southern…

Photos: Catching air at Vallecito Reservoir

Photos: Bye, bye to bump-outs on Main Avenue

Photo: Packed Mule Train Downtown – Ca. 1900

Photos: 300 pumpkins and counting

Durango High football hosts Evergreen

No. 2 Durango High School took on Evergreen in a key Class 3A clash Saturday in the Demons' home opener.

Photo: Misty morning

Photo: Snow dusts the high country north of Durango

As clouds clear out Tuesday, clear skies reveal mountains north of Durango dusted with snow. A storm that passed over…

Photo: Moving the Chief Diner – 1981

In 1944, an abandoned dining car from the old Otto Mears’ Silverton Northern Railroad was moved from Silverton to the…

Photo: Silverton children meet red-tailed hawk

Marya Lehman, a local Silverton falconer, shows Arastra, a 1-year-old red-tailed hawk, to Nash Green, 6; Liliy Rodriguez, 5, center;…

Ice Lake Fire

Ice Lake Fire started Monday west of Silverton.

Photo: Downhill racers – 1966-67

According to Durango ski historian Robert McDaniel, the Durango Ski Club started sponsoring local ski competitions in the late 1930s.…

Photo: Balloon rally launches in the Animas Valley

Balloons take off Friday morning as the Animas Valley Balloon Rally begins north of Durango near the intersection of Hermosa…