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Designers cooking up color-happy kitchens

Kitchens in traditional and vintage homes often are dressed in conservative garb: neutral hues, stainless steel, white-on-white or beige-on-beige. Historically, however, kitchens ...

DATE: Jul 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

Foreclosure filings drop as fewer homeowners fall behind

Foreclosure filings plunged in La Plata County during the first half of 2014, providing a strong indicator that fewer homeowners are in financial distress. The low number of forec...

DATE: Jul 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

Real Estate Contracts 101: The basics

In Colorado, all licensed real estate brokers must use forms approved by the Colorado Real Estate Commission or have an attorney draft a form specific to each transaction. The mos...

DATE: Jul 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate

Home prices up, sales dip

Low inventory blamed for slide in transactions

DATE: Jul 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Iceland’s design industry growing, branching out

Being a small, sparsely populated island nudged up against the edge of the Arctic Circle hasn’t stopped Iceland from nurturing a rich and varied design industry. While Viking rune...

DATE: Jul 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

Internet house hunting

Real estate websites have changed how people look for, buy homes

DATE: Jul 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

FAA says real estate agents’ use of drones is illegal

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Real estate agents are increasingly taking their work to the skies, using remote-controlled aircraft to film bird’s-eye-view video tours of homes, land and commercial...

DATE: Jul 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

Crunching numbers for county market

The La Plata County residential real estate market crested in the first half of 2014 compared with last year, but it maintained a high level of home sales compared with previous years. ...

DATE: Jul 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate

Millennials aging into homeownership

We’re getting so old. As Millennials age into their 30s, they’re expected to make like adults and finally start to buy their own homes, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studie...

DATE: Jul 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

Home countertops getting more creative

The concrete countertops in Eleanor Zuckerman’s San Francisco kitchen are hand-crafted works of art. Custom-designed by Fu-Tun Cheng of the Berkeley, California-based Cheng Concre...

DATE: Jul 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

FAA eyes lower building height limit near airports

WASHINGTON – The government wants to dramatically reduce the allowable height of buildings near hundreds of airports – a proposal that is drawing fire from real estate developers and members...

DATE: Jul 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

Regional foreclosures continue to decline

Across Colorado, the rate hits pre-recession level

DATE: Jul 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

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