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Dayplanner Friday

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.…

Community Menus

Durango/La Plata Senior Center: Salmon with dill sauce, wild rice pilaf, broccoli and carrots, salad bar, wheat roll, lemon bar…

Community Road Work Conditions

The city of Durango Community Development Department’s fall construction of the Downtown Sidewalk Improvement Project has resumed. Each side street…

Health exchange official seeks raise

Board member: ‘I think it’s incredibly audacious’

Low temperatures to stick around in Durango

Homes, cars need cold-weather care

A new driving force

Sidny Zink tapped to serve state Transportation Commission

The best Christmas lights?

We’re collecting your photos and nominations

Downtown offers shoppers red-carpet experience

In addition to live entertainment, downtown metered parking will be free all day. Entertainment will be provided by these artists:…

The Blotter

Thursday 6:11 a.m. A small white car parked in the 3100 block of East Animas Village Drive had all of…

Durango man suspected of attempted murder

Woman suffered cut on right side of neck, bruises, head bump

Snowmaking underway at Chapman Hill

Aurora shooting victims denied access to records

Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour, who is overseeing the criminal case against the theater gunman, wrote in an…

Silverton celebrates: Kendall Mountain turns 50

Kendall Mountain Ski Area in Silverton, elevation 9,318 feet, opens for its 50th season Friday. The town-operated area prides itself…

Locals help Avalanche Information Center

Fundraiser offers program some relief from financial stress

The Blotter

Tuesday 7:06 p.m. A man in a red Jeep was yelling at people at Park Elementary, 510 East Sixth Ave.…

Kerry to present security plan in Mideast visit

Yuval Diskin, a former director of the Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet, says Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian lands poses…

Local Briefs

A health-coverage guide from San Juan Basin Health Department will give hands-on instruction Saturday for people ready to sign up…

Ancient DNA raising hopes

The feat surpasses the previous age record of about 100,000 years for genetic material recovered from members of the human…

FAA has road map for drones, but is behind schedule

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta released the five-year road map a month ago, which projected 7,500 unmanned aircraft in the skies…

Harvard poll: 57% of millennials disapprove of Obamacare

The new poll shows that Obama’s approval rating with 18- to 29-year-olds now stands at 41 percent, a dramatic 11-point…

Lawyer: Engineer in ‘daze’ before NYC train crash

A train passes by the scene of repair efforts at the site of a train derailment in the Bronx borough…

Nation/World Briefs

HARTFORD, Conn. – As gunfire boomed over and over in the background, a janitor begged a 911 dispatcher to send…

Authorities find missing cobalt

Authorities believe a cargo truck containing highly dangerous radioactive material was not targeted by terrorists. The truck was taken from…

Sex offender registers with Sheriff’s Office

Ashburndu1-i-syn Steven Jeffery Ashburn, 42, has been released from the Colorado Department of Corrections and is now living at Days…