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Motorists on U.S. Highway 550 (north Main Avenue) will encounter the final single-lane closure on northbound Main Avenue at 18th…

Ballantine purchases Bayfield newspaper

Pine River Times editor to stay

And Durango’s winners are …

Chamber of Commerce holds ceremony Jan. 23

Senate confirms Yellen to chair Federal Reserve

Janet Yellen will take over as the first female head of the Federal Reserve Bank on Feb. 1. Yellin was…

Syrian rebel in-fighting spreads in country

An al-Qaida linked militant fighter exercises at an unknown training camp in Syria in this photo posted on a militant…

Girl declared brain dead moved from hospital

Jahi McMath is in an unnamed critical care center after being transferred from Children’s Hospital in Oakland. The hospital was…

Atmos Energy Corp. warns of email scam

Fake bills contain harmful links

Silverton’s slow season

Town rolls up the sidewalks when train is absent

Manhunt leads to second arrest

Pagosa Springs man jailed on $5,000 bail

Dayplanner Tuesday

Public hearing on the adoption of regulations governing the construction of cell towers and other telecommunications facilities, 10 a.m., meeting…

Passers-by alert residents of fire

Shed destroyed, house damaged

The Blotter

Monday 6:20 a.m. Someone reported an ongoing problem in the 100 block of East Sixth Avenue where a diesel truck…

Good day, sunshine

Tax breaks top start of new year

Work on education also on to-do list

‘Polar vortex’ Ion has arrived

Storm brings temperatures not seen in decades

1 killed, 2 injured in Aspen plane crash

Emergency crews work near a passenger plane that crashed upon landing at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport in Aspen on Sunday.Leigh…

Skimo: It hurts so good

Race at Hesperus pushes athletes past their limits

The mourning isn’t over

Parents continue fight against birth-control device they say killed their daughters

Dayplanner Monday

Sunrise Yoga, 7-8 a.m. and 8:15-9:15 a.m., Boys and Girls Club of La Plata County, 2750 Main Ave., $5, 259-0385.…

Water pollution by drilling confirmed

States’ data note problems with wells

Library offers glimpse of bookless future

Texas facility is first in country to go all digital

Election politics dominates Congress

Republicans intend to focus on every facet of President Barack Obama’s health-care law. They see a political boost in its…

Big money in social-media clicks

Indonesian students share a tablet computer to check their Facebook accounts in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Celebrities, businesses and even the…

Nation/World Briefs

NEW YORK – Authorities say one person has died and another has been injured in a three-alarm high-rise apartment fire…