Durango Herald

This company is a six-day-a-week newspaper.

The Durango Herald is a newspaper serving Southwest Colorado since 1881.

The Durango Herald, established in 1881, is published daily by the Durango Herald Incorporated. It features local, business, sports, life and leisure news. It also issues editorials and special reports along with local television listings. The newspaper also includes various classified advertisements, including announcements, automotive, employment, markets, merchandise, real estate,...

Arthur and Morley Ballantine purchased the Herald-Democrat and the Durango News in 1952 and changed the name to the Herald-News. In 1960, the name was changed to the Durango Herald and moved to the present location in 1966.

The Durango Herald underwent numerous names and owners before being bought by Arthur and Morley Ballantine in 1952. The Ci...ty of Durango was founded in September 1880 and its first newspaper, the Record, was created in December by Ms. Romney, a widow. She wrote, edited and published the Record from a tent and later merged the paper in 1883 with the Herald, a "most unequivocally Republican...