Campaign: Amendment 66, an income tax increase for public schools. Claim: “When state and local taxes are combined, Colorado ranks sixth-lowest” in the country for tax burden. Who is saying…
Emil Wanatka, president of the board of the Durango Fire Protection District, took up the perplexing issue of providing a stable source of funding for fire and emergency services in…
Durango High grads plan late-Oct. start for round-the-world sailing voyage
Zada Westbrooke-Lile, 6, and some friends create a leaf pile during recess Wednesday afternoon at Durango Montessori School at the Smiley Building. Zada is the daughter of Kristine Westbrooke and…
The vote came after 16 days of an unpopular federal government shutdown and on the eve of the last day that the treasury had enough money to pay the nation’s…
‘Sometimes you have to commit a problem to solve a problem’
After long day of picketing and debate, vote unanimous
A welder secures connections Monday afternoon on the new building for Pediatric Partners of the Southwest. The location, 270 East Eighth Ave., is near the Horse Gulch trailhead. The former…
Revenue would help fund inspections, construction of schools in Colorado
Campaign: Amendment 66, an income-tax increase for public schools. Claim: Colorado routinely ranks near the bottom of school funding, just ahead of Mississippi. Who is saying it: This claim has…
Accessory-dwellings issue prompts the time change
Hibernation still about a month down the road
Experiments in progress in Colorado, New Mexico
Two men in a Subaru traveling southwest on County Road 223 struck a tractor-trailer carrying oil field production water after the driver of the Subaru drifted off the right side…
Ruth Dickson, 12, left, and Danielle Lee, 12, both seventh-graders at Escalante Middle School, prepare to march in the 2013 Durango High School Homecoming Parade on Friday in downtown Durango.…
Judge to rule if Amdt. 66 supporters followed rules
