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Lawmakers grapple with marijuana edibles

DENVER – Lawmakers held off setting restrictions on marijuana edibles in Colorado on Thursday, but they will study setting limits…

Upper Pine Fire: Five candidates seek 2 open seats

For the first time in recent memory, a contested election will determine who sits on the board of the Upper…

Drive carefully round the clock in work zone

Crews to work nights and through weekend

The Blotter

Durango Police Wednesday 2:47 p.m. A man and a juvenile girl were arrested for shoplifting at south City Market, 6…

Off-duty captain warned ferry had stability risks

Relatives of a passenger aboard the sunken Sewol ferry look toward the sea at a port in Jindo, South Korea,…

Local Briefs

Comments sought on conservation plan La Plata Archuleta Water District is more than halfway through the process of implementing a…

Nation & World Briefs

Computer failure grounds flights in West LOS ANGELES – Flights from airports in the Los Angeles area were grounded for…

Leader admits Ukraine can’t stop insurgent forces

Pro-Russian insurgents captured two more government buildings in Ukrainian cities Wednesday. A gunman in camouflage uniform is guarding an administration…

Hundreds rescued from floodwaters in Florida, Alabama

Residents of the Forest Creek Apartments in Pensacola, Fla., are helped ashore by rescue workers Wednesday after having been rescued…

Where to land?

With no teams in sight, Durango-based cyclist creates his own

Earth Briefs

Needham to host tree-planting project The fourth annual tree-planting project at Needham Elementary School is underway. Trees will be planted…

Cows can milk themselves

Some diary producers are moving away from traditional milking methods toward robotic milkers that feed and milk cows.Associated Press file…

Soil map may unlock mysteries

From climate change to crimes, data to serve many purposes

Hello, spring, you’re early again

Season arrives three weeks earlier than in Thoreau’s time

Bee season arrives

Enjoy the derby and help a new hospice

Joy Thibeaux was one of more than a dozen women who stopped Wednesday evening at the Rochester Hotel to decorate…

Bounty on your head?

People who jumped bail and tried to hide out in Southwest Colorado may have found more than a bounty hunter…

Ballot-access plan gets killed

Broad political coalition opposes bill

The Blotter

Durango Police Tuesday 6:13 p.m. A woman reported a man yelling and screaming at himself in the west 100 block…

Lawmakers want to give up power over county salaries

DENVER – Fed up with the politically unpalatable task of setting county salaries, state legislators took steps Wednesday to turn…

Bond for a Silverton mine seized

DENVER – A troubled Mancos gold-mining company was dealt another blow Wednesday, losing the bond for a mine it owns…

Dayplanner Thursday

Meetings and Events Durango High Noon Rotary meeting, noon, DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, www.durangohighnoonrotary.com. Kiwanis Club of Durango…

Public barred from marijuana cultivation tour

Open-meetings law violated, attorney says

Mining company to clean up illegal La Plata Canyon road

$450,000 in escrow to cover the costs