Briefs

Business Briefs

Cricket Wireless has opened a retail store in Durango at 1145 Camino del Rio. A grand opening celebration was held…

February 8, 2016

Local Briefs

The Animas Valley Grange will host a wide variety of monthly talks from February through October, beginning with “Backyard Chickens”…

February 8, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Brief

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will ask Congress for $1.8 billion to respond to the Zika virus abroad and prepare…

February 7, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

WHEATON, Ill. – Wheaton College political science professor Larycia Hawkins has decided to part ways with the college just five…

February 7, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

Host guest conductor Daryl Johnson III will work with students on their own compositions and performances of his music on…

February 7, 2016

Nation & World

Nation Briefs

CHICAGO – Authorities on Saturday released the names of six family members found dead this week in their southwest side…

February 6, 2016

Nation & World

World Briefs

AMSTERDAM – European Union nations anxious to stem the flow of asylum-seekers coming through the Balkans are increasingly considering sending…

February 6, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

Herbalist Marija Helt will be hosting a class on reducing reactivity to coming spring allergens from 6 to 8 p.m.…

February 6, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

The Garden Club of Durango will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Fort Lewis College professor Andrew Gulliford will present a…

February 5, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

Assange SAN FRANCISCO – A 2005 spate of quakes in California’s Central Valley almost certainly was triggered by oilfield injection…

February 5, 2016

Education

Education Briefs

In a ceremony on Dec, 19, 2015, more than 200 Fort Lewis College graduates and their families packed Whalen Gymnasium…

February 5, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

Durango Film will hold its 2016 Volunteer Appreciation Party at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Ska World Headquarters, 225 Girard St.…

February 4, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

WASHINGTON – Two Republican congressmen who are military veterans have introduced a bill requiring women to register for the draft.…

February 4, 2016

Outdoors

Outdoor Briefs

The San Juan Sledders snowmobile group will meet from 6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, in the Exhibit Hall in the…

February 4, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

A free seminar about divorce and custody in Colorado will be presented by a volunteer attorney from Southwest Bar Volunteer…

February 3, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

NORRISTOWN, Pa. – A judge refused to throw out the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby on Wednesday, sweeping aside…

February 3, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

The Durango Community After Prom Association is a nonprofit organization devoted to providing a fun and safe all-night event for…

February 2, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

WASHINGTON – They say crime doesn’t pay, but that might not be entirely true in the District of Columbia as…

February 2, 2016

Education

Education Briefs

The public is invited to meet Shelby Tisdale, the new director of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis…

February 2, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

WASHINGTON – The last thing Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian remembers before last May’s fatal crash in Philadelphia is pushing the…

February 1, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

Gathering of Southern Colorado Beekeepers will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St. Among other…

February 1, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

A Utilities Commission Meeting will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Monday. Durango Film to hold appreciation party The…

January 31, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

GENEVA – A triple bombing killed at least 50 people in a predominantly Shiite suburb south of the Syrian capital…

January 30, 2016

Nation & World

World Briefs

TOKYO – The government and ruling parties welcomed the Bank of Japan’s decision to adopt a negative interest rate policy,…

January 30, 2016