Regional News - The Durango Herald

As climate vote nears, communities worry it will reduce funding for road projects

Proposed rule is part of state’s plan to reduce emissions

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The Blotter

Durango Police Department Monday 3:18 a.m. Someone reported that a man and a woman had been in a fight in the lower 100 block of Primrose Circle. 3:47 p.m. Someone reported that thei...

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado Rockies, plains pummeled by powerful wind storm

DENVER – High winds whipped across the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday, knocking out power, closing roads and highways and forcing the cancellation or delay of hundreds of flights. The Nation...

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Storm knocks out power to thousands of homes on Navajo, Hopi reservations

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Residents across the Navajo Nation were without power Wednesday after a storm that packed powerful wind moved across the region. Navajo Tribal Utility Authority spokeswo...

DATE: Dec 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Increase in Colorado’s property crime rate bucks national trend, report says

Democratic state lawmakers dispute claim that pretrial reforms are to blame

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Trucker gets 110 years in prison for fatal Colorado pileup

GOLDEN – A truck driver who was convicted of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on Interstate 70 west of Denver was sentenced Monday to 110 years in prison...

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Veteran reunited with bracelet stolen during World War II

DENVER (AP) – When Joe Esquibel was just a teenager and about to be sent off to World War II, he bought himself a keepsake: a small, silver bracelet. On one side, he had the engraver add his...

DATE: Dec 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Weekly planner for Dec. 13-17

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: Dec 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

‘Panther’ the cat rescued after dayslong utility pole perch

AURORA – For at least two days and maybe more, residents of a suburban Denver neighborhood worried about the fate of a black cat named Panther who was perched atop a 36-foot utility pole. P...

DATE: Dec 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Utah’s Arches to require timed tickets as visitation swells

SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah national park famed for its otherworldly sandstone arches will require visitors to get timed-entry tickets during its high season next year, the second Utah park to i...

DATE: Dec 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Indigenous name change approved for Colorado mountain

DENVER – A federal panel has approved renaming a Colorado peak after a Cheyenne woman who facilitated relations between white settlers and Native American tribes in the early 19th century, p...

DATE: Dec 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver sees first snowfall after breaking 87-year-old record

Denver finally saw its first snowfall of the season on Friday, shattering an 87-year-old record for the latest first snow. It wasn’t much: The official measurement at Denver International Ai...

DATE: Dec 10, 2021 | 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