Southwest Life

Community

Powerhouse to host Plazapalooza

Enjoy live music and local food vendors. A cash bar will be available. Adhering to local health department and state…

October 2, 2020

Community

SWCAHEC hosts mask competition

As part of its CARES ACT Funding, SWCAHEC is educating the public about the importance of stopping the spread of…

October 2, 2020

Community

Registration opens for the 17th annual Festival of Trees

Join presenting sponsor Alpine Bank and more than 30 individual, family and business sponsors in sponsoring and decorating a tree…

October 2, 2020

Community

Apple Days festival to take place

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival will be different than the usual Buckley Park Festival. The Good Food Collective…

October 2, 2020

Community

Local resident grateful to organizations and community members

The clients do not need merely food but many other services. In-person relationships help the homeless as much as food.…

September 29, 2020

Community

Womenade Council grateful to donors

Our goal with each event is to provide financial help for women in our community who are normally self-sufficient and…

September 29, 2020

Health

COVID-19 cases rising among U.S. children as schools reopen

A teacher leads her students into an elementary school in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Tuesday, Sept. 29,…

September 29, 2020

Travel

Unfriendly skies: Airline workers brace for mass layoffs

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant prepares a plane bound for Orlando, Fla. for takeoff May 24 at Kansas City International…

September 29, 2020

And the West is History

Photo: Downtown Football & Marching Band â€“1934

In the 1930s, football was played at this municipal field in downtown Durango. The field was located approximately where the…

September 28, 2020

Community

Group to host food, clothing drive

There will also be drop-offs from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the same location. With winter coming, warm clothing,…

September 25, 2020

Community

Free community education classes offered

Classes aim to provide residents knowledge and skills for safe practices during outdoor adventures or at home. Classes will be…

September 25, 2020

Community

Cafe au Play opens toddler play areas

Hosted by Liza Tregillus from 9:30 a.m. to noon weekdays, and by volunteer parents Saturday mornings, parents and children are…

September 25, 2020

Health

Too much candy: Man dies from eating bags of black licorice

A Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half…

September 23, 2020

Travel

Finland deploys coronavirus-sniffing dogs at main airport

Sniffer dogs named K’ssi, left and Miina react with trainer Susanna Paavilainen at the Helsinki airport in Vantaa, Finland, on…

September 23, 2020

Health

CDC changes, then retracts, web posting on how virus spreads

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield puts his mask back Sept. 16 after speaking at a…

September 23, 2020

And the West is History

Photo: Lucky Drive Inn – 1954

Look closely at this building that still exists in Durango today. Do you recognize it? If not, don’t feel too…

September 21, 2020

Travel

When will tourists return to Africa? Continent must guess

He’ll have to wait for the cows to have calves and for the calves to be old enough to sell…

September 18, 2020

Health

CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield speaks Sept. 16 at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing…

September 18, 2020

Community

Road Apple Rally mountain bike race goes virtual on 40th anniversary

While normally held the first Saturday in October, participants in this year’s race will need to use an app such…

September 18, 2020

Community

Animas Valley Grange to host talk about fruit gleaning

This is a presentation by Good Food Collective and Table to Farm Compost. Good Food Collective will discuss its gleaning…

September 18, 2020

Community

Durango Farmers Market to continue through October

The market is held every Saturday in the parking lot of TBK Bank across from the city of Durango Transit…

September 18, 2020

Community

Cider collaboration to be released

Southwest Colorado Apple Heritage and Fort Lewis College The Old Fort will host a cider release of their collaboration, Old…

September 18, 2020

Health

Study hints antibody drug may cut COVID-19 hospitalizations

Drug company Eli Lilly & Co. said Wednesday that partial results from a study testing an antibody drug in mild…

September 16, 2020

Travel

MGM Resorts adopts smoke-free policy for Vegas Strip casino

One of the last Las Vegas Strip resorts to reopen after coronavirus closures will be the first to be smoke-free,…

September 14, 2020