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Region’s air may face new rules

Proposed EPA plan could put counties above pollution limits

More local people insured

The percentage of uninsured people locally has fallen steeply in the last year since the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in 2013. In La Plata County, the percentage of uninsur...

Town’s tobacco ban hearing too rowdy, ends early

Massachusetts burg wants to ban sale of all smokes

Mercy gets ‘A’ for protecting its patients

Mercy Regional Medical Center was recently awarded an “A” for hospital safety by an independent industry group. The Leapfrog Group awarded scores based on 28 measures of patient s...

Commissioners face tough grant choices

Red Cross’s move of management to Grand Junction raises questions

Durango wastewater-plant repair deadline extends

City gets six more years to meet new rules

Health experts: Be smart, get flu shot

Flu season has quickly arrived, and for Leslie Blood, a media studies professor at Fort Lewis College, she waisted no time getting inoculated this week. “My husband is getting his...

FLC health staff receives Ebola response training

Health workers at Fort Lewis College are receiving up-to-date training on how to recognize and respond to someone with Ebola. Mitch Davis, spokesman for Fort Lewis College, said v...

City calmly prepares for Ebola

Durango medical practitioners plan for remote chance virus appears

Health worker 2nd in U.S. to get Ebola

DALLAS – A “breach of protocol” at the hospital where Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan was treated before his death led to the infection of a health-care worker with the deadly virus, and oth...

AIDS remains a silent killer

Local awareness week highlights disease not much in the spotlight

Nut-free campus requested for AHS

Requirement has not yet been sought