News
Bailey’s Bits: Bailey = Firestarter
Life lessons learned from hanging out in RE/Max Pinnacle’s real estate office: “The best way to make a fire with 2 sticks is to make sure one is a match.” – Bailey Learn more about Bailey or search Durango Real Estate at HomesInDurango.com
HEALTHY LIVING: Protein and Exercise
Maintaining your muscle mass is an important key to staying healthy while losing weight. Learn how regulating your levels of protein also plays a part on this installment of Healthy Living, featuring Ashley Lucas with PHD Advanced Nutrition.
Old Fashioned Sleigh Rides, plus Santa!
Enjoy the Colorado winter by horse drawn sleigh! Warming hut pavilion for hot cocoa sipping!! Regular sleigh rides are available through January 20th, but you can also enjoy a Santa Sleigh Ride from December 16th to the 24th. See rappcorral.com for more info and booking. Rapp Corral has offered custom horse drawn sleigh rides in the winter wonderland between Durango and Purgatory Ski Area since 1984. Sleigh rides are a great idea for...
Bailey’s Bits: Bailey on Workmanship
Life lessons learned from hanging out in RE/Max Pinnacle’s real estate office: “It is a poor workman who blames his tools.” – Bailey Learn more about Bailey or search Durango Real Estate at HomesInDurango.com
See Annie at The Durango Arts Center
Starring over 60 students of the DAC Applause! performing arts program! Spend your holiday season at the DAC for the timeless musical classic Annie, Jr. Re-live the story of everyone’s favorite orphan and the journey that takes her from the New York City slum orphanage, under the foot of Miss Hannigan, to the extravagant penthouse home of billionaire Oliver Warbucks. You won’t have a Hard Knock Life while humming along to the songs...
Find the Perfect Gift at Solstice Market
From jewelry to hand-crafted furniture, the annual Winter Solstice Market at the Durango Arts Center offers a beautiful variety of gifts for that someone who has everything.
HEALTHY LIVING: A Diet Plan that Works
Carla Hukle tried every diet program on the books, but nothing helped her lose weight like the program offered by PHD Advanced Nutrition.
State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara’s Nutcracker
State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara’s Nutcracker with the San Juan Symphony Friday, December 8, 2017 at 7:30pm Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 2pm & 7:30pm Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 2pm $42/$29 Tickets For the 11th consecutive year, the Nutcracker Ballet will charm Durango audiences and feature a live orchestra, as the San Juan Symphony is set to perform. Artistic Director Rodney Gustafson holds true to the...
Bailey’s Bits: Bailey on Winning
Life lessons learned from hanging out in RE/Max Pinnacle’s real estate office: “It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, until you lose.” – Bailey Learn more about Bailey or search Durango Real Estate at HomesInDurango.com
Christmas Tree Train – Cut Your Own on the Cascade Canyon Train
December 2,3,9,10 2017 Train Departure: 9:45 am Train Return: 2:45pm Ride the regular Cascade Canyon Train but come prepared to cut your own Christmas Tree to be hauled back to Durango on the steam train! Maybe this will be a romantic couples day to choose your first Christmas tree together. Maybe a Family Day with mittens and hot chocolate for everyone! See durangotrain.com to reserve your seat on the Christmas tree train. Fares:...
The Champagne of Snowdown Beer
Ska Brewing will pop open its 23rd annual Snowdown specialty brew on Dec. 15. We visit with co-found Dave Thibodeau about the birth to the Snowdown beer.
Drinking water all over the world contaminated with plastic, researchers find
A new study shows that literally billions of people are drinking water contaminated by plastic particles, with a stunning 83 percent of tap water samples from around the globe registering microplastic pollution. From the faucets of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office building to kitchens in residential neighborhoods in New Delhi, plastic pollution has penetrated our world – with frightening implications. To learn...
Opportunities to Shop Local
Learn about this year’s Noel Night and the 10th annual release of Durango’s Shop Local Coupon Book.
Chairlift for Chapman?
A new improvement plan for Chapman Hill includes several options to replace the old rope tow.
HEALTHY LIVING: Dietary Fat & Weight Loss
Butter, bacon, cream . . . they’re not as bad for your health as you’ve been led to think. In fact, they’re key ingredients in a successful weight-loss plan.
It’s Toxic to Most Life – Including Your Precious Pets
If your pet’s food has corn or grain in the ingredient list, and it doesn’t say “organic” then it is most likely GMO and has glyphosate in it, the same as human food. Nonorganic corn or corn syrup usually has BT toxin, as well, which comes from genes they’ve put into the seed corn so it makes a pesticide that punches holes in insects’ digestive tracts that eat it. There is now evidence that these genes are being incorporated into the...
American Society Of Acupuncturists Bring Acupuncture To Capitol Hill
Acupuncture capitol hill briefing presents powerful, cost-effective treatment options to nation’s opioid epidemic Ms. Winn advocates for access to acupuncture for addiction after losing her son. WASHINGTON – Nov. 15, 2017 – PRLog — With the nation reeling from the mounting opioid overdose epidemic, acupuncturists from the American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) and the American Alliance for Professional...
Bailey’s Bits: Bailey on Life’s Purpose
Life lessons learned from hanging out in RE/Max Pinnacle’s real estate office: “It may be your whole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.” – Bailey Learn more about Bailey or search Durango Real Estate at HomesInDurango.com
Noel Night & 12 Days of Shop Local Events!
Come to to Durango’s all-day and all-evening Christmas Part featuring over 100 participating businesses! DECEMBER 1 IS DURANGO’S CHRISTMAS PARTY ‘Tis the season to Shop Local Join thousands of locals downtown on Friday, December 1, for Durango’s Christmas party! From 10:00 a.m. till 9:00 p.m., mix and mingle with friends and family as you find one-of-a-kind gifts from over 80 local merchants who are pleased as punch to...
Durango Be Local Coupon Book in Stores + Launch Party
The Be Local Coupon Book is available in stores starting Black Friday – November 24th! Do Black Friday the Local Way About the Be Local Coupon Book Coming out each November and good all year long, this book serves as an introduction to La Plata County’s incredible locally owned and independent businesses that make this community’s vibrancy, culture and attraction what it is. With unique coupon offers new and long time locals can’t...
Durango Herald News
- New video shows gunman shooting victims at Idaho In-N-Out Burger drive-thru August 7, 2026
- US stocks jump as employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs, raising hopes that rate hikes can wait August 7, 2026
- Cigarette purchases decline in Colorado. So does funding for Southwest HIV education program August 7, 2026