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So, what’s cooking in the kitchen?

Americans briefly scaled back the scope of home renovation projects after the recession began nearly a decade ago, says interior designer and “HGTV Design Star” judge Vern Yip. But even duri...

DATE: Dec 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

La Plata County weighs office space options

Pressure builds to sell old postal building

DATE: Dec 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

U.S. home prices surpass pre-recession peak

WASHINGTON – U.S. home prices have fully recovered from their steep plunge during the housing bust and Great Recession, according to a private measure. The Standard & Poor’s CoreL...

DATE: Dec 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Bureaucracy can impact home prices

Rising home prices are a signal to builders: As housing gets more expensive, it’s time to create more of it. Then as new buildings rise, the competition for scarce housing falls. And that ke...

DATE: Dec 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Texas, California sending many new residents to Colorado

Census data shows Coloradans are top migrants to county

DATE: Dec 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Residents explore solutions to housing shortage

City considering changing parking, height and density regulations

DATE: Dec 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

US construction spending up 0.5 percent in October

WASHINGTON – U.S. builders boosted spending on construction projects by a modest amount in October, helped by big gains in spending on home construction and the biggest increase in governmen...

DATE: Dec 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Chinese on worldwide buying spree

If they were anywhere else in Beijing, the five young women in cowboy hats and matching red, white, and blue costumes would look wildly out of place. But here at the city’s bigges...

DATE: Nov 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Walkable, rideable neighborhoods are here to stay

Why is there the hubbub about “walkable and rideable” neighborhoods? It is elementary, my friends. The convenience of shopping, restaurants, art and music activities, river trai...

DATE: Nov 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate

Sales of new homes slipped in October

WASHINGTON – Fewer Americans purchased new homes in October, but sales are still much stronger this year than in 2015 – a positive sign for the housing market. The Commerce Depart...

DATE: Nov 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

New standards make today’s home fireplace units much more efficient

A crackling fireplace during the cold season is an aesthetically pleasing heat source and a desirable one in Durango’s vacation homes, and it’s an asset the How often the unit will b...

DATE: Nov 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Trump presidency holds unknowns for housing market

High-end sales could get boost, some say

DATE: Nov 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday