Homelessness

A homeless shelter? A new community corrections facility? Or a place for at-risk youths? The future of the now vacant Robert E. DeNier Youth Services Center is up in the air, and it appears...

Durango City Council is pushing forward on a long-awaited initiative meant to help people with unstable housing or low incomes: a centralized resource navigation center. City Council voted...

Tuesday was a COVID-19 testing day for people living at the Purple Cliffs homeless camp along La Posta Road (County Road 213). It’s part of a weekly pop-up testing effort put on by the Colorado...

On Nov. 10, Dean Allen Littrell, 57, froze to death in his sleeping bag in his makeshift camp in the woods behind Walmart. Despite recent local attention to the homeless population and a health...

The city of Durango is searching for a new campsite for unhoused community members, starting with the recognition that an ideal site likely doesn’t exist. The city of Durango and La Plata County...

If residents of Southwest Colorado felt a deep chill in the air Wednesday morning, nobody would blame them: The mercury dipped to new lows based on at least two decades of record-keeping. The...

Authorities have identified a homeless man found dead Monday in downtown Durango. A La Plata County Sheriff’s Office deputy discovered the man’s body around 10 a.m. , just off the parking lot at...

A man was found dead Monday morning in downtown Durango, believed to be a homeless individual in his 60s, according to the Durango Police Department. Cmdr. Ray Shupe said a La Plata County...

Two fires in one day at the Purple Cliffs homeless camp south of Durango have prompted law enforcement to offer outreach on how to safely have a fire, especially as cold temperatures this winter...

An outbreak of COVID-19 cases has been reported at the Purple Cliffs homeless camp south of Durango, according to state health department records. The outbreak was confirmed Tuesday, according to...

It’s a brisk 50 degrees outside as half-brothers Jon Barney and Shorty Ambro enjoy a hearty lunch of Frito pie outside Daily Bread in Farmington. But on this night the temperature will drop to 17...