A mine waste spill inadvertently caused by environmental cleanup work spewed about millions of gallons of orange-colored discharge into a tributary of the Animas River. See the interactive map that ...

Teaching children about watershed helps protect and manage it in the future Was the Gold King Mine spill a story of triumph or tragedy? Certainly, it was a turning point for the community and sparked ...

Butch Knowlton looks at a floodplain map of La Plata County, and his mind envisions the worst-case scenario: all those homes, all those people. As director of La Plata County’s Office of Emergency ...