While federal fire mitigation efforts are being cut, LPEA has expanded ours. Using grid mapping and drones, they’ve launched proactive teams to create defensible spaces, increased tree trimming in ...

I’ve dedicated my career to mental health care in Colorado, from working on the front lines as a clinician to now operating a clinic that employs 10 skilled professionals. Throughout my career, I have ...

The EO provides for the cheap dumping of mine waste even where a valid mine doesn’t exist. For Trump, the concepts that the Earth is small, its resources limited and that the unregulated release of ...

The return of trails season to area BLM lands came a few weeks early this year. On Tues., April 15, the BLM, in coordination with CPW, announced it was lifting winter wildlife closures on trails on ...

Elon Musk bought his way into our government by spending $290 million on Trump’s reelection campaign. Musk’s businesses have received $38 billion in government contracts, loans and tax credits. Now, ...

Now for something from the shameless self-promotion department: our very own longtime columnist, poet and Montezuma County friend David Feela has published his fifth book.

Cutting Medicaid will not just be an issue for the poor. It will affect the middle class and seniors who are dual enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare. Cuts to Medicaid could take coverage away from up ...

The egregious attempt to recall County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt is merely an effort by some who are dissatisfied with the current government in La Plata County. There have been times when an official ...

La Plata Electric Association offers rebates to members who buy electric vehicle (EV) chargers, and electric lawnmowers, snowblowers, bikes and similar expensive equipment. But is this fair for ...

Editor’s note: The April 3 edition of the Telegraph contained a letter by “Margaret E. Cozine Landrum” of Durango. The letter came from New Mode, an online civic engagement platform that sends ...