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Affordable housing project on slate

Development would offer 50 low-rent apartments

Lawmakers take aim at ski water plan

Forest Service takeover bid meets bipartisan pushback

Community service options

Durango Municipal Court community service options: Alzheimer’s Association Annie’s Orphans Adult Education Center American Cancer Society American Red Cross Bayfield Thrift Store/Second Chance for Animals Bayfield, Town of – Public…

Republican lawmakers reach out to Durango

Tour aims to connect with outer reaches of state

Cortez man ID’d after fatal accident

Cortez resident Rodney C. Platts, 48, was driving a 2006 white Jeep Commander south on U.S. Highway 550 when he crossed the center line into oncoming traffic, hitting a 2006…

Falls Creek road meets resistance

Landowner says it’s the only route possible

Experience not always required

Employers, job hunters seek matches at job fair

Eagle-NET promises Silverton broadband

But Archuleta County might be left in the dark

Swift drills in search of oil

Company unsure if fracking needed for well in county

2 die in Highway 550 head-on

Durango resident is one of victims

Second death reported in Highway 145 crash

Authorities had reported one death just after Monday’s accident, which occurred just southwest of Dolores near the Skyline Gas Station. Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Ben Steger said the accident occurred…

Parking violator pays her dues

How rash of tickets created a civic-minded Durango resident

Parade of Homes set as construction makes comeback

Local industry builds momentum as economy grows

Solution to city housing issue?

Accessory dwellings compromise unveiled

Someone to look up to

Francesca Bianchi, 14, front, performs on the uneven bars for an audience of Gabriella Piccaro, 8, back left, and Shelby Flory, 11, in Lissa Farrington’s gymnastics class Tuesday afternoon at…

Sexual assault suspect arrested

New Mexico man, 25, to be extradited to La Plata County

Ignacio enacts permanent marijuana ban

Pot illegal on tribal lands that overlap the town’s boundaries

Vallecito dam road retiring

Replacement ready for aging 72-year-old section

No one’s hurt

Turns of the season

Time to sharpen the edges? Silverton Mountain reported as much as 2 to 3 feet of fresh snow from the weekend storm. Silverton Mountain ski patroller Marc Kloster takes a…

Storm opens road wounds

Days of repair ahead; in Marvel, hail was said to hit like rifle shots

Head-on collision kills one near Dolores

Truck swerves into other lane

Sun, flowers and snow

Wildflowers still in bloom stand in sharp contrast to the changing weather seen Monday on the slopes of Silver Mountain in the La Platas. The first snow of fall is…

Radio system troubles top safety issues, Roberts says

Firefighters sometimes need 2 or 3 communicators

Texters attempt Pine River scam

Bank records are unhacked

Fall arrives with a deluge

Powerful storm floods roads, keeps crews scrambling

Disparity narrows for blacks, Latinos

Education divide closes, but income gap unchanged in Colorado

August DUIs/DWAIs

These are convictions made in August 2013 for driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent or higher or by prescription or illegal drugs. Unless otherwise indicated,…

FLC launches accreditation process

Key to grants, loans and more

Botany fans race for plants in Durango

Rain dampens second day of Horticultural Festival