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About those omega-3s: You need them, so eat more fish

Are you getting enough omega-3s? These vital fats are beneficial for heart, brain and eye health, but it’s not just the amount that matters. The type of omega-3s in your diet could determine...

New tower fuels concerns over changing face of San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO – More than 60 stories above the ground, construction workers climb makeshift stairs and cross narrow steel planks to put the finishing touches on Salesforce Tower, now San Fra...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Frank and Stem Edmisten had “a narrow escape from death or serious injury” when their car went off the road between Turkey Creek and West Fork Bridge, and “plunged 200 fee...

And the West is History

100 years ago: The Durango Democrat received a telephone call “from the Florida mesa of the death of Peter Alfred Wahlburg, from acute indigestion.” Wahlburg spent 20 years in the area a...

Pine River Library to offer food-fermentation classes

Two classes about food fermentation will be offered at Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive: Wendy Rice of the La Plata County Extension Office will lead a class about...

We took our 12-week-old to Cuba. You can travel with a baby, too

“We will never travel again!” Those were the first words out of our mouths as my wife and I watched the fourth pregnancy test turn positive. (Yes, it took four tests to believe it.) ...

Brain scans may change care for some people with memory loss

WASHINGTON – Does it really take an expensive brain scan to diagnose Alzheimer’s? Not everybody needs one but new research suggests that for a surprising number of patients whose memory prob...

And the West is History

100 years ago: A complaint in Local News about the Western Union Telegraph Co. said, “The word ‘service’ is not found in the Western Union Telegraph company’s dictionary. This is no refl...

And the West is History

100 years ago: Wanted advertisements included: “To the sheep man wishing a location for lambing ground and a place to hold sheep during the shipping season, close to Durango, see J.W. Tu...

Neutron beams, X-rays reveal more about T. rex relative found at Bisti

ALBUQUERQUE – Researchers at a top U.S. laboratory announced this week that they have produced the highest resolution scan ever done of the inner workings of a fossilized tyrannosaur skull u...

Sitter Family Hall boasts LEED certification

Fort Lewis College announces that Sitter Family Hall received LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in July. The certification recognizes the building’s e...

U.S. teen drug overdose deaths inch up after years of decline

NEW YORK – After years of decline, teen deaths from drug overdoses have inched up, a new U.S. government report shows. The drop in teen deaths had been a rare bright spot in the o...
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