Big Picture High School seniors learn about geographic information systems and mapping when they map the presence of animals and noxious weeds in the Oxbow Preserve for the Durango Parks and Recreation Department's management plan.

Thomas Heuser, music director for the San Juan Symphony, promises a lively set of performances for the season.

Two Montezuma County businessmen plan to reopen the excelsior plant in Mancos. They're doing it out of necessity, but they hope it revives the lumber industry in the region.

Long-time affordable housing advocate Bob Lieb is accepting applications for leases on lots in his new tiny-home subdivision.

The Homes Fund, formerly the Regional Housing Authority, has helped 19 families with down-payment loans this year so that they could buy their own homes. Meet one woman who benefited from the program.