Local & Regional News

Vandals destroy Durango water dock

Dawn raid results in little cash

Low-tax claim depends on how you look at it

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…

Bags steal show at forum

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…

Adventure on high seas

Durango High grads plan late-Oct. start for round-the-world sailing voyage

Enjoying fall? It’s a tossup

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…

Tipton breaks with party’s majority, votes to end shutdown

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…

Judge: School tax issue stays on ballot

Right is ruled to be fundamental

Man vandalizes Durango school building, walks to police station, turns himself in

‘Sometimes you have to commit a problem to solve a problem’

Council approves accessory dwellings

After long day of picketing and debate, vote unanimous

Clearing the smoke

Ballot questions seek to simplify fire district funding

Rocky Mountain open; why not Mesa Verde?

Legislators to petition for state’s other parks

Portrait of a student

Weld done

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…

Record vote shuffles Ute Mountain council

Former chairman Manuel Heart returns to post

Denver firm buys Brainstorm Internet

Its customers will not be immediately affected

Tax recreational pot?

Revenue would help fund inspections, construction of schools in Colorado

Shutdown hangover: Beer release on hold

Ska has to keep cork in it, for now

Colo. school funds on par with Miss.?

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…

City Council shifts start of meeting for hot issue

Accessory-dwellings issue prompts the time change

Bear truth: They’re just not sleepy enough yet

Hibernation still about a month down the road

School funding face-lift

Amendment 66 would rewrite state’s current formula

Durango Double: Twice the fun?

Many runners go back-to-back during long-distance weekend

Braving the cold to learn more about what makes hops tick

Experiments in progress in Colorado, New Mexico

Blowing in the wind

The pros and cons of plastic bags

Roll out the barrel of craft brew

Beer fest, industry continuing to grow

Bad gas leaves cars high and dry

Turns out diesel fuel, water are the culprits

Car collides with semi

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…

A place for kids to play in Arboles

New playground being constructed

Tuning up for homecoming

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.…

Hunt for white October

For rifle-bearers and elk, big game season to begin today