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So you want to caucus? Here’s how to do it when parties gather next week

Precinct-level events start March 1; times and locations vary by county

DATE: Feb 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Prosecutor: Fentanyl likely killed 5 in Colorado apartment

DENVER – Preliminary evidence suggests that five people found dead in an apartment in suburban Denver overdosed on fentanyl while taking what they believed to be cocaine, the district attorn...

DATE: Feb 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The Blotter

Durango Police Department Friday 2:49 a.m. Someone reported a burglary at Cowgirls Wholesale Outlet, 501 Main Ave. Thursday 9:28 a.m. Someone reportedly found a firearm in the 500 bl...

DATE: Feb 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Small jet goes off runway in Aspen, closing airport

ASPEN – A departing small jet went off the end of the runway at Aspen’s airport on Monday, leading to the closure of the Colorado ski resort community’s airport on a busy travel day. No one ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Mushroom rabbi grows psilocybin for Denver congregation

DENVER (AP) – On a picturesque autumn evening in early November, the sunset belied a briskness to the Denver breeze. But inside a nondescript brick building downtown, anticipation was heatin...

DATE: Feb 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Weekly planner for Feb. 22-25

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 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado seeks election hard drive copies in security probe

DENVER – Colorado’s Democratic secretary of state filed a lawsuit on Thursday to compel a Republican elections clerk who says he copied his voting system’s hard drive to deliver those copies...

DATE: Feb 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Maps of Indigenous dwellings now on view at Canyons of the Ancients museum

15-year-long project produces detailed digital drawings

DATE: Feb 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation maintains mask mandate as New Mexico drops it

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation is maintaining a mask mandate to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, even as the last of the states that surround the reservation dropped the requi...

DATE: Feb 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Coloradans worried about water, wildfires and cost of living, new poll shows

Telephone and online interview polled 3,440 residents of eight Mountain West states

DATE: Feb 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Best bets in and around Durango

San Juan Symphony will perform its show “Perpetual Motion” this weekend. The Friday show is at Henderson Performance Hall in Farmington. There will be a pre-show lecture an hour before the ...

DATE: Feb 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The Blotter

Durango Police Department Wednesday 7:58 a.m. A man with blood on his hands was reportedly yelling in the 400 block of South Camino del Rio. 11:37 a.m. Someone reported a stolen moto...

DATE: Feb 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday