CORTEZ The Montezuma Community Economic Development Association, or MCEDA, has some legs under it only a year after launching itself.

Morley Ballantine, 84, chairman and editor of The Durango Herald whose roots were in a Midwestern childhood and a newspaper-publishing family, died Saturday, Oct.

The longtime editor and chairwoman of The Durango Herald has died, the newspaper said.

Two Oregon filmmakers, who are traveling the United States in search of success and innovation in these tough economic times, were in Colorado this week searching for stories.

While the Senate primary still is in its early stages, there are seven officially declared Republican candidates for the Senate seat held by Democrat Michael Bennet.

1--DURANGO, Colo. -- The annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering will be Thursday through Sunday at various locations throughout Durango.

Name: Academy of Western Slope Artists and Musicians Started in Garfield County: Late 2006 Purpose: To promote first-quality classical performance and performing arts in the Western Slope community; and to aid and abet musical education on the Western Slope.

Recall familiar emotions and experiences, or conjure up those yet to come through this book of personal poetry by Sandra Allbee Lacy entitled Insight Out.

'Mesa Verde is a place of spiritual veneration and also one of great mystery and a little eeriness' 'The park is perhaps the best place in the US to capture a sense of ancient peoples and ancient semi-arid mountain geology' 'Archeologists have come to suspect the end of the Anasazi civilisation brought with it some measure of conflict or violence' ...

The brown-haired teenager darted across Interstate 4 while the sky grew dark and the roads were slick.

Rediscovered by cowboys of the American West in 1888, Mesa Verde offers a rare glimpse into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1300.

When we talk about reforming the health insurance system in our country, there is one aspect that I believe gets too little attention: the needs of rural Colorado and rural America.

Western Slope schools are getting a big financial boost. Today State Treasurer, Cary Kennedy, announced $25 million will be coming to help our schools through the "Building Excellent Schools Today Program." One billion dollars will be put into k-12 schools throughout the state for capital projects.

Bruce Talbott built his reputation on apples and peaches. A congenial middle-aged farmer with a tidy moustache and a boyish grin, the VP of Talbott Farms manages more than 400 acres, most of them perched on a verdant bench overlooking the small Western Slope town of Palisade, Colo.

With the start of fall semester classes rapidly approaching, Southwest Colorado Community College has expanded its enrollment and registration service by scheduling open hours on the first three Saturdays in August to register students.