The town of Silverton is receiving some welcome publicity thanks to a number of national media outlets that have featured snowboard legend Shaun White training on a halfpipe built specifically for him last winter in the San Juan Mountains. The CBS television program 60 Minutes" aired a 13-minute segment Sunday night that begins with White in Silverton at his very own

The snow is still piled high, and the ice is thick, but inside Durango studios, the mood is muy caliente.

While embalming a man who died in a single-vehicle crash, a funeral director in Texas found a bullet jacket in his body.

ConocoPhillips Co. has agreed to pay a hefty fine and install pollution-control equipment to settle alleged Clean Air Act violations on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. The company will pay $175,000 in civil penalties in an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding the Argenta and Sunnyside compressor stations.

Andrew Romanoff, who is fighting for the Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. Senate, brought his Main Street tour" to Southwest Colorado over the weekend with a message of curtailing special interests' influence in Washington.

Teddy gets to see his tumor Friday.

So I read that the city is getting ready to rebuild Florida Road, with inbound traffic using Florida but outbound traffic detouring to Main and then up 32nd Street. What the heck? Have you driven on 32nd lately? It's a war zone, with craters the size of kitchen sinks and a mud hole by north City Market. Is town government totally insane? And don't even get me started on the Chapman Hill

The assistant director of the Durango Public Library, Andy White, has been named the successor to Sherry Taber, who retired Friday.

A winter storm warning is in effect for Southwest Colorado until noon today.