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Southwest’s drought, fires a window into climate change future

Experts describe how reality threatens fastest-growing region in U.S.

Best bets in and around Durango

Garden Club of Durango will host its annual plant sale from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, rain or shine, at La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. Early attendees will have access to the be...

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Durango Police Department Wednesday 9:07 a.m. Someone’s vehicle was broken into Tuesday night in the lower 100 block of Girard St. 10:08 a.m. A man was harassing employees at McDonal...

Prosecutors debunk Colorado clerk’s 2020 election claims

DENVER – Prosecutors in a western Colorado county said Thursday they found no evidence of tampering in the 2020 presidential election as alleged by a clerk who has become a prominent voice a...

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Durango Police Department Wednesday 12:09 a.m. Someone reported a loud party occurring in the 1000 block of Goeglein Gulch Road. Tuesday 12:26 a.m. Someone was attacked by roommates...

5 ways the Colorado Legislature just affected your wallet – in a good way

Your property taxes won’t rise as much as they were supposed to and Coloradans will temporarily avoid a $2 increase in the cost to get or renew a driver’s license

Fines for Colorado schools with Native mascots begin in June. But who will enforce them?

About a dozen schools have been warned by commission about appropriating imagery

Colorado will have an office for cases of murdered, missing Indigenous people

Gov. Jared Polis said he will sign Senate Bill 150 into law after weeks of negotiations with lawmakers, tribal representatives

Colorado, Nebraska jostle over water rights amid drought

OVID – Shortly after daybreak on the high plains of northeastern Colorado, Don Schneider tinkers with seed-dispensing gear on a mammoth corn planter. The day’s task: Carefully sowing hundred...

Crackdown on intoxicating hemp products could be coming to Colorado

State may begin regulating items that contain delta-8

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Durango Police Department Monday 1:24 a.m. A man was trying to follow people into apartments at Silver Peaks Condos, 1100 Goeglein Gulch Road. 4:57 a.m. A man threw a rock through t...

Colorado school children raised trout. The state had to kill a lot of the ‘poor buggers’ for testing

An innovative solution is helping cut down the number of fish involved in fatal testing process