Author - The Durango Herald
Ad
The Associated Press

Rescue personnel searching for lost tuber on Colorado River

DENVER – Rescue crews are searching for a man who was reported missing after he was last seen on an inner tube on the Colorado River. A man in his 30s was seen near Radium in Gran...

Colorado Supreme Court rules child abuse not applied in womb

DENVER – The Colorado Supreme Court ruled anyone injuring an unborn baby cannot be prosecuted for child abuse. The court’s 4-3 ruling Monday is binding even if the infant is born ...

Navajo Nation reports 131 new COVID-19 cases, 2 more deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Department of Health has reported 131 new cases of coronavirus on the Navajo Nation and two more known deaths. That pushes the numbers to 5,479 pos...

Otero County Prison reports first inmate death from COVID-19

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Corrections Department has announced that a 31-year-old inmate died from COVID-19 at the Otero County Prison Facility. The department reported Monday t...

Colorado governor, mayor: Trump threat is counterproductive

DENVER – Colorado’s governor and Denver’s mayor say President Donald Trump’s threat to send the military into places where some protesters have resorted to violence and vandalism could cause...

Hundreds of protesters march peacefully in Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE – Hundreds of people marched peacefully Monday night in downtown Albuquerque a day after a similar protest against the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapoli...

Hundreds gather in Denver for 5th night of protests

DENVER – Hundreds of protesters gathered near the Colorado Capitol on Monday for a fifth consecutive night of demonstrations, which have been marred by violence, vandalism and hundreds of ar...

New Mexico virus cases top 7,800, with 6 additional deaths

SANTA FE – New Mexico health officials reported an additional 113 positive tests for the novel coronavirus as the state began Monday easing some of the restrictions that had been placed on b...

Navajo Nation reports 98 new COVID-19 cases, 5 more deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Department of Health has reported 98 new cases of coronavirus on the Navajo Nation and five more known deaths. That pushes the numbers to 5,348 pos...

Justice Department backs Colorado church suit against Polis

High Plains Harvest Church claims Polis tougher on houses of worship than for restaurants, retail shops

Colorado lawmakers resume work in vandalized Capitol

DENVER – Colorado lawmakers returned to work Monday in a Capitol building with smashed and boarded up windows and graffiti being cleaned from its granite walls after four days of protests. P...

New Mexico’s populous county sees jump in Illegal dumping

ALBUQUERQUE – Officials in New Mexico’s most populous county are reporting a rise in illegal dumping amid the COVID-19 pandemic. KRQE-TV reports that Bernalillo County officials b...