Local & Regional News

Obamacare complicates hiring of bus drivers

Full-timers get insurance; part-timers see shorter week

Durango dad searches for daughter after explosion

Sarah Lockwood had just gotten a second wind about 18 miles in during Monday’s Boston Marathon. She turned onto Kenmore Square when the course filled with people, confusing her. As…

Measure may help police learn how to deal with Fido

Bill clears House panel

City councilors take oath

Keith Brant, left, Dean Brookie, and Christina Rinderle are sworn in by Durango City Clerk Amy Phillips during Tuesday’s City Council meeting in City Hall. Brookie, an architect, received most…

Senate votes ‘yes’ for expansion of Medicaid to poor

Under Senate Bill 200, adults making 133 percent of the federal poverty level – $15,282 for a single person – would qualify for Medicaid. The cost to insure the extra…

Renewable-energy bill clears Colo. Senate

Republicans worry about impact it will have on rural consumers

Once again, Tax Day creeps up and surprises some in Durango

Last-minute filers keep accountants, postal workers busy

CJ’s takes flak for recall fundraiser

Divisive gun-rights advocate funnels ire onto city diner

There’s relief for Durangoans with friends, kin in Boston

Carl Lienert, an associate professor and chairman of the Mathematics Department at Fort Lewis College, finished with a time of 3:14:26. The explosions occurred about 4 hours and nine minutes…

Stung by mystery die-offs

Beekeepers report greater colony losses this year

Swarms need living space

Swarming is a natural way for bees to produce new colonies. When the hive gets too crowded, the colony raises a new queen, and eventually, the queen and a large…

Tri the Rim

Sage Hughes, left, and Matthew Hughes were among those braving cloudy skies and cold temperatures Sunday in the Tri The Rim Triathlon. This was the 25th running of the triathlon,…

Rain, snow expected this week in S.W. Colo.

San Juans could see more than a foot

United Way bids farewell to Walsworth

Former charity executive helped raise more than $6M

Gun-rights advocate to bash McLachlan

Larry Pratt set to speak at CJ’s Diner, rec center

A picture of health

La Plata County sixth healthiest in Colorado

Feds firm on gun denials for pot users

Issue is cloudy in Colorado, several other states

Bravery in face of Nazis chronicled

Documentary to make state debut in Durango

Highway death toll shifts into reverse

Fatalities rising in Colo. as enforcement drops

Sequestration trickles down

Federal spending cuts to affect region’s parks, schools, hospitals

Locals join in rite of spring

FLC Environmental Center leads Animas River Trail cleanup

Providing comfort after accident

Dave Imming, left, and Jordan Golson with Durango Fire & Rescue Authority comfort a person involved in a three-vehicle accident Saturday afternoon at the intersection of north Main Avenue and…

Washington pressure helps sink ski area water bill

Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, said he expects his House Bill 1013 to die without a vote in May, when the Legislature adjourns for the year. His bill would have forbid…

Nothing to sneeze at?

Pollen season not yet severe, but allergy sufferers still seek relief

Mud storm cleanup not so easy

Window cleaner: ‘I’ve never had to deal with this level of grit’

Grant to help study fire-prevention behavior

University of Colorado to get $298,045

Reality show with Durangoans changes air date

Wells Group broker Chelsea Krueger and her buyers, Ryan and Krista Montgomery, will be featured on the reality TV show, which takes viewers behind the scenes of buying a home.…

Foster volunteers needed

Prohibition era ends on community green

Buckley Park evolves from drug-deal central to wet town plaza

Healthy forest plan gains some momentum

Tipton: Status quo has caused decades of degradation