Local students will be seeing a lot more local vegetables and fruit on their plates. The Montezuma School to Farm Project and the Southwest Farm Fresh Cooperative recently received a $97,683 USDA...

If you want to see a Panther swim in Cortez this year, Saturday may be your only chance. The Montezuma-Cortez High School swim team will hit the water for its first meet Friday in Durango and then...

Bleary-eyed, but still smiling Bealls Store Manager Jennifer Hermanns stood inside the Cortez department store mid-day Friday answering an assault of questions. “Yes you can exchange those for...

Kelly Jackson knows a think or two about Black Friday shopping. She has been rising out of bed before dawn the day after Thanksgiving for 15 years and has learned a thing or two along the way.Here...

It was just about 30 years ago when Danny Wilkin saw his first bison during an event for his high school vocational education class. And since then, he has wanted to raise them. “I’ve been dreaming...

For computer programmer Alexii Carey, inventing, creating, building and tinkering have always been sort of a hobby. In fact, Carey even started the Durango Makers Club, a group of...

The Starbucks inside the City Market in Cortez opened quietly on Sunday at 6 a.m. The word quickly spread across town, and lines soon formed at the coffee shop.“Yesterday was amazing,” said Alisha...

For Brian and Amanda Puett and their 8-year-old daughter, Mikayla, the past two months have been a blur.The family recently remodeled the building on the northwest corner of Market and Main streets...