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Keeping Colorado’s kids fit hard to legislate

Study shows ’11 law having little effect

Budget woes loom over Upper Pine

Outside, inside forces prompt district to seek mill-levy increase

Email sent with school ‘top 10’ list

On March 27, Fuschetto sent an email entitled, “MYRA Mains School!!!” to the Colorado Department of Education’s Kristin Lortie and the Building Excellent Schools Today grant program’s Ted Hughes, among…

Finding of bodies upsets Ignacio school construction

26 uncovered – some century-old remains of Native Americans

Cowboy up and away

Zach Thompson and his friends visited the swingset at Fassbinder Park on an overcast Saturday afternoon. A chance of thunderstorms remains in the forecast through Monday with high temperatures expected…

Do beetle-killed forests burn faster?

Not all experts agree

‘Music’ to our ears

27th annual classical music festival fills souls – and local businesses’ pocketbooks

Weather limits fire on West Fork Complex

“There was not much fire activity,” said Mark De Gregorio with the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team. “The weather has been cloudy, and we had some scattered showers on the…

Feds advance ‘solar energy zones’ in San Luis Valley

BLM: 304K acres off limits to mining claims

Wear wolf?

Wyatt Bozone, 11, son of Phil and Marlen Bozone of Fort Worth, Texas, tries on a wolf pelt Friday at the wildlife museum at the Durango Fish Hatchery. The museum,…

The pursuit of happiness

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty…

Colorado licenses get a gold star

Tamper-proof ID assures license holder vetted, meets federal approval

Papoose Fire leaves Durango in haze

West Fork Complex at 106,637 acres

With avatar, Colo. woman whole again

Virtual-world therapy ends physical limitations for disabled users

4th fêted with fortitude

Fires, haze and memories of bombs mark festivities

Campaign starts for Dylan’s Mountain

Reaction differs on Middle Mountain name change

U.S. Highway 550 incident

STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald<br><br>A teenage boy jumped from a moving vehicle on U.S. Highway 550 during a family dispute on Wednesday afternoon, sustaining injuries to his head, and was transported to…

Accident near Elmore’s Corner

Being an American means …

Pride prevails, even during politically divisive times

West Fork fires grow; Papoose may intensify

Ash fallout reported in Pagosa Springs

How are our congressmen spending the Fourth of July?

Instead, Congressman Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, will be eating pancakes and driving throughout the 3rd Congressional District visiting constituents. “It’s a privilege to have a reason to travel through this district,”…

Drop-off sites will be for glass only

All other items must be taken to Recycling Center

Durango’s fireworks ready for liftoff

Area around launch will be wet down with foam before show

Thief pilfers shop owner’s stars, stripes

Lyn D’Andrea holds a replacement flag outside Hair After Salon on Main Avenue. D’Andrea suspects someone stole her original American flag that was on display in front of the business…

Crossing wires

A boy defies gravity on the bungee trampoline as a girl passes overhead on the zip line over the plaza at Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort on Tuesday afternoon as…

La Plata County permits third pot grower

Facility also eyes entry into recreational marijuana

Containment of blazes up to 7 percent, smoke down

“There was low activity,” said Laura McConnell, a spokeswoman for the Rocky Mountain Type 1 Incident Management Team. “The fires are still burning, but there is less smoke, and things…

City wants you to cut water use

Officials ask for voluntary 10 percent reduction

Mercury lays off 25 employees

CEO says positions are redundant

An angel for trekkers

Ohio woman opens her Cascade Village home to hikers walking the Continental Divide Trail