The Durango Herald is a daily newspaper in
Durango, Colorado. The first edition of the
Herald came out June 30, 1881. Two years later, the
Herald merged with the Record, which had started publishing in 1880, seven months before the
Herald. The modern
Herald traces its roots to both papers but the current
Herald nameplate cites 1881 as the paper's founding year. The paper combined in 1952 after Arthur and Morley Cowles Ballantine purchased the
Herald-Democrat and the
News.