Local & Regional News

Small-town lawyer is next city attorney

Dirk Nelson worked for Ignacio, Bayfield, will start March 15

Local historic advocates score big

First satellite State Historical Fund office to open in Durango

Did you remember flowers for your valentine?

Super Bowl of floral arrangement and delivery is here

Goodbye Animas and Hermosa

Voters dissolve fire districts

Durango outfitter gets 4 months in jail

Guilty of breaking probation, working without a license

Enviros honor Zia Taqueria, and the chickens eat the scraps

Who owns Zia Taqueria? Tim Turner is Zia’s principal owner. Turner, 48, moved to Durango in 2001 to become a partner in Bread, the popular bakery on East Animas Road…

Forget winter: Lack of snow allows Hillcrest Golf to open this week

Also, the driving range will open from 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday. On Friday, the golf shop will open at 10 a.m., and tee times begin at 10:30 a.m. The…

Will Election Day voter registration open fraud’s door?

Republicans do – and they’re upset the measure got passed

And in this corner … ‘Buffie’ McFadyen

Your current U.S. Rep. Tipton may not be ‘maverick’ enough

Rapidly rising

Workers are finishing the second of four whitewater features under construction at Santa Rita Park. Scott McClain, the city of Durango’s landscape architect, says the four bank-to-bank structures will start…

County works to keep rural taps flowing

Meeting of minds aims to clarify who provides water service just beyond city limits

Dayplanner Thursday

Durango High Noon Rotary, noon meeting, DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, www.durangohighnoonrotary.com. Kiwanis Club of Durango, noon meeting, Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave. Line dancing, 1:30-4 p.m.,…

Coffee clubs brew friendships

Men’s java groups in Durango can be traced back more than 60 years

Should your kid’s teacher pack heat?

Republican gun measures fail

Barnes gunning for top Olympic spot

Durangoan’s biathlon event is Friday morning

Local Briefs

Fort Lewis College History Department will present “‘Dr. Colorado’ Confessions of a Public Historian: Bars and Boneyards” at 6:30 p.m. today in Noble Hall 130. This is a public lecture…

Danger high in the San Juans

3 men survive Ophir Pass slide

For $143M, Durangoans may get new, bigger airport

You would be more likely to catch flights on time

Toilets can flush again in Mancos

It could be Monday before water is safe to drink

Vacation rentals downtown?

Homeowners associations may get authority to decide

Medical growers can farm retail pot

Rules to come for recreational marijuana sales

Bringing back the boom

FLC alumni buying The Cannon a new barrel; financing campaign starting at month’s end

Mancos lives another dry day

Residents within the town limits may be without water for the next 48 to 72 hours as crews work to restore it, said Andrea Phillips, town administrator, after a Town…

Calling all volunteers!

5-needle treatment used for post-traumatic stress disorder

Water pipe breaks in Bodo Park

City’s in-ground pipes were laid early last century

Photo stolen from under Lost Dog’s nose

‘Might just be Snowdown’

Investigation underway in Cortez

Magazine names Durango Diner one of the best breakfasts

In a recent article in the Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine, the Diner was named among the list of 51 best morning meals in America. The diner was chosen…

Ag committee has big appetite for McLachlan’s food measure

McLachlandu1-i-syn Rep. Mike McLachlan’s bill was an easy sell to the House Agriculture Committee, which passed it on a 12-0 vote. McLachlan, a Democrat, is sponsoring House Bill 1119 with…

BP caps gas-well leak near Ignacio

BP learned of the leak from a landowner at 6:39 a.m., Brett Clanton, a BP spokesman said. There were no injuries. “We had an engine on stand-by,” said Los Pinos…