DURANGO, Colo.—Somewhere beneath the turbid, rushing waters of the Animas River are the trout, finning against the current. After some 3 million gallons of toxic mine water spilled into this big, ...

No kind of horror is more frightening than looking into the psyche of someone who’s having some sort of psychotic break. The visions, the noises, the lighting are all dark and scary, because the mind ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The wildfire that caused hundreds of people to evacuate in Bent County Saturday is now 90% contained, according to fire officials. The Boggsville fire, which ...

Controlled burning on Animas City Mountain near northern city limits in Durango is expected to resume Friday after a two-day pause, according to the Bureau of Land Management. The prescribed burn on ...

Lauren Pagel: 143-year-old law doesn't require or fund cleanup for 500,000 inactive mines in U.S. She says a bill pending in Congress will fix this; it's urgent that it be passed Last Wednesday, the ...

They were here not to cheer anyone on, but to mourn, gathered to watch a catastrophe unfold in slow motion. Soon, the waters below would become milky green, then a Gatorade yellow, before finally ...

The spill has taken a financial toll on multiple local businesses. Durango’s Mild to Wild Rafting has been unable to take clients on the Animas and expects to lose between $150,000 and $200,000 in ...

The definition of a mine, said Mark Twain, is a hole in the ground owned by liars. And this month the industry’s biggest lie — that it can be trusted with our water — is once again on display as ...

After nearly two decades, the Johnson & Johnson-owned Animas brand of insulin pumps is shutting down. In the early morning hours on Thursday (Oct. 5), J&J issued a press release that finalized nine ...

The Animas River under better circumstances in 2011. Heather/Flickr CC BY 2.0 There’s a state of emergency in several Colorado counties after an Environmental Protection Agency water contamination ...