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Redwine search fails to find clues
Investigators say location pinpointed by dogs yields nothing
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Parker: Election reform will help voters
La Plata County clerk says mail ballot for all eases complexity
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Principals may gain more budget discretion
Durango schools look for creative savings solutions
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‘What is the question?’
“Trees are the answer!” Peter Schertz, right, leads a group of pre-kindergartners in a chant while celebrating the planting of one of eight trees on Wednesday at Needham Elementary School…
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Colorado preps to tax Internet
With Amazon’s backing, tax-free online shopping may be finito
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Senator: Ads could finance air force
Senate OKs fleet, but won’t spring for appropriation
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Doggie sign language
Bayfield Elementary School students watch in amazement as Eric Melvin commands his dog Angelyne to jump and remove a treat from his mouth during a performance Wednesday. Angelyne is totally…
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Ugandan journalist working with The Durango Herald
Nakaweesidu1-i-syn Nakaweesi is a reporter at the Daily Monitor, which is privately owned by the Nation Media, East Africa’s largest media organization. She writes about business and economic affairs. During…
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Weber Canyon burn area to get a bit more green
Colo. Bar Association to sponsor tree-planting project
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Baby on board
“I’m really good at this or I wouldn’t do it,” said Melia Adair, after taking her nephew Elijah Stephenson, 1, for a skateboard ride in the parking lot at Manna…
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Fire agencies work kinks out of their operating plan
Annual mutual-aid agreement’s chief concern: Cost sharing
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Deputy charged with child porn
Sutterdu1-i-syn Jason Sutter, 32, was arrested April 9 after turning himself in and is suspected of having 89 photos of child pornography involving boys on his personal computer, according to…
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Bennet’s bill seeks to treat damaged forests
Measure would force U.S. Forest Service to manage insect-damaged areas more intensely
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County clerk on receiving end of elections-reform attack mailing
Flier’s return address is Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s former law firm
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Blaze contained near Bayfield
No structures were threatened, and the landowner won’t be cited, he said. “The climate (change) and drought are changing the dynamics” of how fires act, Evans said from the fire…
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Garden to honor ex-FLC chairman
Owen, who became chairman of the FLC division of biological sciences during his 24 years at the college, long wanted an arboretum on the campus. “Herbert Owen was a visionary,”…
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Heavy drinking blurs Colo. health
18 percent say they exceed moderation; 21 percent in La Plata
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Cold snap helps rafters
Zach Butler helps prepare for the coming season at Mild to Wild Rafting & Jeep Trail Tours. Alex Mickel, co-owner of Mild to Wild, said trips on the Animas River…
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Yogurt-hauling semi flips near Hesperus
The truck’s driver, Wade Mellon, 64, of Texas, received minor injuries and was cited for an unspecified violation, public information officer Trooper Josh Lewis said. The accident occurred at mile…