Regional News - The Durango Herald

Colorado bill would prevent employers from firing workers for using cannabis

Legislation includes exceptions for people who work in dangerous fields

DATE: Feb 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Effort to crack down on cannabis concentrates spooks some doctors

Physicians worry they may be writing ‘prescriptions,’ which remains illegal under federal law

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

House advances marijuana banking bill, though final passage uncertain

Measure must survive conference process

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Access still an issue in Colorado’s aid-in-dying programs

DENVER (AP) – After 17 years of friendship, Kathy Escobar’s friend asked her for help navigating the medical aid-in-dying program at Denver Health. Bill Ekdahl had COPD, a lung disease, tha...

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

City of Durango to begin repairs to West Ninth Street on Tuesday

Street construction is scheduled to begin on West Ninth Street east of Camino del Rio on TuesdayFeb. 8. City of Durango crews will repair a drainpipe. The project is expected to last about ...

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Split Colorado school board fires superintendent

DENVER – Four new conservative members of a school board south of Denver voted to fire the superintendent at the end of a week of controversy over leadership and the direction of the Douglas...

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver-area police identify suspect in fatal church shooting

AURORA – Authorities on Sunday identified a suspect in a church shooting in a Denver suburb in which a woman was killed and two men were injured. Police in Aurora are looking for Jose De Je...

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

As Colorado warms, snow arrives later and melts earlier; soils, rivers and reservoirs face changes

Last six months of 2021 were hottest in state recorded history

DATE: Feb 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Weekly planner for Feb. 7-11

Information and agendas about local meetings: City of Durango: www.durangogov.org or call 375-5000. La Plata County: www.co.laplata.co.us or call 382-6210. Town of Bayfield...

DATE: Feb 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Lost for a month, a Western Slope dog reunited with her owners in unlikely way

For more than a month, countless animal lovers across Colorado’s Western Slope were gripped by the same question: Where is Mia? But you’d never know it from the rescue dog’s calm demeanor no...

DATE: Feb 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police: Kidnapping suspect asked for Bloomberg’s daughters

DENVER – A man who allegedly kidnapped an employee at the Colorado ranch owned by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at first asked her where the billionaire’s daughters were and l...

DATE: Feb 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Political, business trends threaten outdoor show's future

DENVER (AP) – The owner of a ski company leans against a wall of his skis, arranged just so to dazzle passersby. “What am I doing? I feel like I’m wasting my time,” said Ted Eynon, the owne...

DATE: Feb 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News