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Denver ending indoor mask mandate as surge declines

DENVER – Denver will end its citywide mask mandate for businesses and indoor public places this week as the surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant declines. Denver Mayor Micha...

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Durango Police Department Sunday 5:54 p.m. A woman reportedly threatened to stab someone in the 3100 block of East Animas Village Drive. Saturday 7:17 a.m. Someone’s vehicle was rep...

Deadly Colorado blaze renews focus on underground coal fires

DENVER – A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much smoke pouring from cracks in the ground that the scene was likened to burning volcanoes and the state’s firs...

Police: 4 killed in 6 weekend shootings around Denver area

DENVER – Four people were killed and five others were injured in six shootings in the Denver area over the weekend, police said. Two people were killed in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood ...

Affordable housing, behavioral health and economic recovery targeted for federal spending

Three Colorado task forces release final plans for distributing American Rescue Plan Act money

Colorado ranchers who have lost livestock to wolves want to know if anyone hears them

Cattlemen say lethal force needed to get rid of the problem

Weekly planner for Jan. 31-Feb. 4

Information and agendas about local meetings: City of Durango: www.durangogov.org or call 375-5000. La Plata County: www.co.laplata.co.us or call 382-6210. Town of Bayfield...

Denver officials ‘likely’ to let mask rule expire next week

DENVER – Officials in Denver say that it is “likely” they will let the citywide indoor mask rule expire next week. The public health order, which requires everyone who is older than 2 to wea...

U.S. judge won’t rein in federal wild horse roundup in Nevada

RENO, Nev. – A federal judge decided Friday not to rein in the roundup and capture of wild horses in eastern Nevada, rejecting advocates’ claims the federal government was “needlessly and re...

Colorado supermarket reopening months after mass shooting

BOULDER – A Colorado supermarket where 10 people were killed in a mass shooting last year is set to reopen Feb. 9 with a ceremony to remember those who died. “We know that restoring this loc...

Denver police: Suspect identified in four cold case killings

DENVER – Denver police say they have identified a man responsible for killing three women and a 17-year-old girl in separate incidents between 1978 and 1981 by using DNA technology and genea...

Copies of Elbert County’s election system hard drive given to unauthorized people, state official says

Secretary of state demanding more information from Dallas Schroeder