Bayfield News

Columbine Ranger District fire crews will conduct a prescribed burn today on 230 acres of public lands in the First Notch area of the San Juan National Forest.

Two long-running weekly newspapers, the Pine River Times, based in Bayfield, and the Berthoud Recorder, are calling it quits.

The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enough power for the electric meter on the side of the Smiley Building to spin backward.

Kourtney Hardwick, BP Florida operations manager, looks over a methane gas well site on Wednesday, Aug.

Team Oracle stunt pilot Sean Tucker and a US Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet piloted by US Marine Corps Major Nathan Miller fly over the San Francisco Bay.

DURANGO As the issue of future economic development in La Plata County comes up in civic and business circles, the question inevitably comes with it: Where will these businesses grow? One option that's been gaining momentum is the Airport Business Park off of County Road 309 the turnoff from Highway 172 that leads to the Durango-La Plata Airport.

Bayfield Colorado's Heritage Days event Saturday featured 2200 sheep. From the Durango Herald : Brown said the festival is a reminder to the community of how things used to be.

I noticed an item about Ebon "Buck" O'Neal in the 90 years ago column on Page 2 of the Aug.

A newly-constructed, multi-million dollar luxury hotel in downtown Pagosa Springs has brought sales and Lodger's Tax dollars to the town and likely profits to the hotel's owners and the general contractors, yet county documents indicate, while some may be prospering with the project, others may be getting the shaft.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigations issued an AMBER Alert for a teen who was taken from her home on Monday, and investigators believe she may be headed for Albuquerque.

Colorado reported 35,302 collisions between animals and vehicles from 1986 through 2004.

Brainstorm Internet will submit an application next month to the National Telecommunications and Information Association, or NTIA, for grant moneys between $4.5 and $5 million to fund projects that could bring broadband service to many underserved and unserved areas of Southwest Colorado and northern San Juan County, New Mexico, according to ...

Health officials have confirmed four cases of swine flu at a southwest Colorado camp.

Summer camp struck with flu. It hasn't been all fun and games for kids attending summer camp in the Four Corners area.

IT HASN'T BEEN ALL FUN AND GAMES FOR KIDS ATTENDING SUMMER CAMP IN THE FOUR CORNERS.

Kanakuk Colorado today released the following update regarding a recent outbreak of campers contracting a flu-like illness.

A high-speed chase that began Monday afternoon in Durango ended west of Pagosa Springs when the suspect lost control of his vehicle and hit a pickup truck at the intersection of Trails Boulevard and U.S. 160.

KRQE Web Producer: Devon Armijo Friday, 12 Jun 2009, 4:31 PM MDT A Durango police officer is in a lot of trouble after he was arrested for domestic violence on Thursday.

A Durango police officer identified as Travis Carpenter was arrested Thursday for domestic violence, according to the Durango Police Department.

Besides the rapids on our local rivers right now, exciting things are happening in Southwest Colorado.