Members of the Choices class in Ignacio and their horse friends.Courtesy photo Ignacio High School Choices class members held their culminating spring barbecue and equine therapy session where they showcased…
Gift from Southwest Ag to support summer tutoring
Members of the Crane and Phelps families, along with friends of Aria Crane, released balloons at the 12-year-old's memorial service on Saturday, May 9 at Bayfield Middle School. The BMS…
Ranchers benefitting from higher prices, higher demand, but consumers must pay up
The Durango Education Foundation recognized five teachers and three staff members Thursday for their outstanding performance during the school year, which ends June 3. Each of the eight received $150…
DENVER – Colorado is slogging through a wetter-than-normal spring, with heavy rain restoring much-needed moisture to parched rangeland and sending some rivers over the banks. But the precipitation isn’t helping…
A 19-year-old college student avoided serious injury Thursday after becoming airborne and rolling his car at 60 mph on U.S. Highway 550, north of Durango. Jack Youle was driving southbound…
Free entries sought for July 4 parade The Durango Business Improvement District announces a call for entries for the Stars & Stripes Parade set for 6 p.m. July 4 on…
Meetings and Events Sunrise Yoga, 7-8 a.m. and 8:15-9:15 a.m., Boys and Girls Club of La Plata County, 2750 Main Ave., $5, 259-0385. Durango Early Bird Toastmasters meeting, 7-8:30 a.m.,…
Durango Police Thursday 12:11 a.m. A belligerent man stood outside a house in the 500 block of East Seventh Avenue demanding help. Durango Fire Wednesday Firefighters and paramedics responded to…
City Council set aside $300K for reservoir
Postal workers rallied Thursday in Colorado and across the nation today to demand better service for customers, less than a week before their union contract expires.Courtesy of American Postal Workers…
Biologists suiting up selected birds to track behavior and locations
Republican Senator: Planned Parenthood is dividing women
About $1.4 million will make the rocky, uneven sports fields playable
Fanto and Jenkins Ranch parks will not allow off-leash dogs
A Durango man died May 8 in the Berri Park area up Middle Mountain Road of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot. Sheriff’s Lt. Ed Phippen identified him as Andrew Giffin, 52.…
The use of intrauterine devices, IUDs, and other long-acting reversible contraceptives played a major role in reducing the number of teen births 35 percent in La Plata County and 47…
Andrew Giffin dies from apparent self-inflicted gunshot
The 2015 Durango Kennel Club Dog Show kicks off at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds this weekend. Ginger Jenks, a longtime Durango Kennel Club member, will enter her Samoyed, Linc.Courtesy photo…
Local peace officers remember the fallen The Durango Police Department will host a Peace Officers Memorial Service at 10 a.m. Friday at the Durango Police Department, 990 East Second Ave.…
Meetings and Events Durango High Noon Rotary Club meeting, noon, DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, www.durangohighnoonrotary.com. Kiwanis Club of Durango meeting, noon, Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave.…
Durango Police Wednesday 12:35 a.m. Durango Fire Protection District asked for help transporting someone from Animas Surgical Hospital to Detox of La Plata County. 4:58 a.m. A window was found…
