News

Scott Tipton to visit FLC, health clinic

Tiptondu1-i-syn U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, will visit Durango to attend a number of events Thursday and tour various facilities,…

April 16, 2014

Local News

Roberts’ emergency-radio system measure passes Senate

DENVER – Legislators took a step Wednesday toward fixing the state’s troubled emergency radio system, a top priority of Sen.…

April 16, 2014

Local News

Task force to look at herbicide issues

Chemicals kill weeds as well as desired crops

April 16, 2014

Local News

Take a hike where the deer, elk roam

Haven from elements no longer needed

April 16, 2014

Nation & World

NATO ups military presence amid Russian threat

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is urging Russia to pull back its troops along the Ukraine border. The military alliance…

April 16, 2014

Nation & World

U.S. judge overturns 6-week abortion ban

Protesters stand outside the Red River Valley Women’s Clinic in Fargo, N.D., the target of a state law that banned…

April 16, 2014

Local News

Peer cities: Chill on pot

Others’ wisdom defies Durango’s regulatory ideas

April 15, 2014

Local News

Ag life a trying endeavor

Panel urges folks to eat local food

April 15, 2014

Local News

Dayplanner Thursday

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

April 15, 2014

Local News

Residents can voice river-access ideas

Discussion to be held today about design opportunities along the Animas

April 15, 2014

Local News

Lending a hand

CJ’s Diner held a fundraiser for one of its longtime employees Wednesday to help her pay for food, clothing and…

April 15, 2014

Local News

The Blotter

Durango Police Tuesday 7:40 a.m. A group of people received a stern warning for camping in a parking lot near…

April 15, 2014

Business

Business Briefs

LPEA ballots to be mailed May 1 Ballots for the election of three directors on the La Plata Electric Association…

April 15, 2014

Business

Bank-failure victims move on

New Frontier in Greeley shuttered in 2009

April 15, 2014

Business

Changeup for Durango sports bar

Retired officer, former youth baseball director take over Bent

April 15, 2014

Business

Are your steaks thinner, fewer?

Beef prices highest level since 1987

April 15, 2014

Business

A new consignment store for Cortesians

Main Street’s latest addition offers rotating inventory

April 15, 2014

Nation & World

Pot may cause changes in brain, study suggests

NEW YORK – A small study of casual marijuana smokers has turned up evidence of changes in the brain, a…

April 15, 2014

Nation & World

Nation Briefs

Appeals court upholds EPA emission rules WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s first emission…

April 15, 2014

Nation & World

End of road for highway projects?

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is pushing a White House proposal to shore up the government’s Highway Trust Fund, which funds…

April 15, 2014

Nation & World

Dems take lead in fundraising

WASHINGTON – Deep-pocketed donors are turning over multimillion-dollar checks to influence November’s elections, and the sums raised by the national…

April 15, 2014

Nation & World

Latinos: Obama out of time

A group of women demonstrate outside the House of Representatives to protest Congress’ failure to reform America’s immigration policies. Immigration…

April 15, 2014

Nation & World

New World discoverers suffered old disease

The bold colonizers who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second trip to the New World faced obstacles impossible to grasp…

April 15, 2014

Nation & World

Security Council sees torture photos

France’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, left, says U.N. Security Council members raised some questions about the credibility…

April 15, 2014