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1 week ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel |Molly Cruse |Allen Best
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 Grandview Ridge and Animas City Mountain. This was a full two weeks earlier than the anticipated opening May 1.
“This year, there isn’t much snow at low to mid-elevations.
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2 weeks ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Missy Votel |Molly Cruse |Allen Best
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.
Titled “Feelasophy,” it is a collection of 70 short, wry and often-sublime essays on life’s absurdities and blessings – many of which have appeared in these pages (and others) over the last 10 years.
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3 weeks ago | 
durangotelegraph.com | Molly Cruse |Allen Best
In case you’ve been doing the Rip Van Winkle lately or, more likely, taking a break from the thoroughly exhausting news cycle, Durango’s got a few new/old City Council members
In last Tuesday’s election, incumbent and current mayor Jessika Buell and newcomers Shirley Gonzales and Kip Koso were elected to serve four-year terms as city councilors.
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1 month ago | 
denverite.com | Kevin Beaty |Molly Cruse |Kiara Demare
Thousands of Denverites flooded into Civic Center Park — and just about every nook and cranny around it — for a rally hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday, March 21. The park was filled long before the progressive leaders took the mic for their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour in the early evening. Earlier in the day, Sanders and AOC spoke in Greeley before more than 11,000 people.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
denverite.com | Molly Cruse
Denver news3 min. readWorkers at the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, a shelter that serves the unhoused community and more than 22,000 families and individuals a year in Denver, voted to unionize Wednesday. The vote comes after an almost year-long organizing campaign by staff. They cited low pay, high employee turnover, and inadequate resources required to serve the community as reasons for unionizing.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
denverite.com | Ben Markus |Molly Cruse
Two people were killed and two people were injured in a series of stabbing attacks allegedly carried out on Denver’s 16th Street Mall over the weekend. A 24-year-old man named Elijah Caudill was arrested Sunday and charged in the case. Elijah Caudill’s public arrest record in Colorado begins a few months after his 21st birthday in 2021, when he was picked up by Westminster police for allegedly threatening a maintenance worker with a knife.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
denverite.com | Andrew Kenney |Molly Cruse
Denver police say they chased down and arrested 24-year-old Elijah Caudill on Sunday night in connection with a series of stabbing attacks over the weekend on the 16th Street Mall. The attacks left two people dead — including Celinda Levno, an Arizona-based American Airlines flight attendant — and injured two others. “This tragedy has been absolutely devastating for me as she was my sister in law and friend for over 40 years,” Rochelle Perkins, Levno’s sister-in-law, told Denverite.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
durangotelegraph.com | Molly Cruse |Allen Best |Nathaniel Minor
Motorists of Southwest Colorado know the white-knuckled stretch between Ouray and Montrose as one the busiest gauntlets for wildlife in the region. But now, we can loosen that steering wheel grip, just a little.
This November, CDOT finished a $40M project along the stretch of Highway 550 which included additional passing lanes, widened shoulders, wildlife fencing and underpass, and emergency “off ramps” for wayward ungulates.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
durangotelegraph.com | Molly Cruse
On any given winter weekend, the I-70 corridor becomes bumper-to-bumper traffic as thousands of people flock to Colorado’s ski resorts – many of which are owned by ski giants like Vail Resorts or Alterra.
Ski resorts in Colorado, like the rest of the U.S., have quickly become dominated by these corporations. Locally owned resorts, such as Ski Cooper outside Leadville, are becoming an endangered species.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
denverite.com | Molly Cruse
Two alleged Tren de Aragua gang members — who appeared in the viral security video that set off a national media firestorm in August — were arrested in New York City last week. The two men, Edilson Pena Angulo, 25, and Danyeer Aramillo Meneses, 23, were wanted by the Aurora Police Department for first-degree burglary and menacing with a firearm. The warrants were issued after security footage from The Edge at Lowry apartment complex allegedly captured six men knocking on apartment doors.
