Briefs

Local Briefs

The La Plata Quilters Guild drew the winning ticket for this year’s raffle quilt at its annual Christmas party. Clark…

December 22, 2014

Nation & World Briefs

MINNEAPOLIS – A group of wolf experts disputed Monday that gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are endangered or…

December 21, 2014

Health

Health Briefs

Genetic counselors in Colorado Springs are now meeting with patients in Durango by two-way video conferencing. In a partnership with…

December 21, 2014

Nation & World Briefs

LANSING, Mich. – Christians and Satanists put up competing displays Sunday on the Michigan Capitol grounds as Christmas week got…

December 21, 2014

Nation Briefs

KanKemwa Green of Mankato, Minn., participates in a protest at the Mall of America on Saturday.AARON LAVINSKY/The Star Tribune BLOOMINGTON,…

December 20, 2014

Local Briefs

A group of Durango residents are working to help longtime Durango resident Eileen Reedy, who recently suffered a life-changing accident,…

December 20, 2014

World Briefs

PANAMA CITY – Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is nearly forgotten, languishing in a steamy jungle prison near the interoceanic…

December 20, 2014

Local Briefs

“Inklings,” a book club for children in second- and third-grade, will meet from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Jan.…

Religion

Religion Briefs

Mary Ocken will present “Sustaining the Gaze as Shadows Grow Long” at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship…

Nation & World Briefs

WASHINGTON – The U.S. government isn’t fully prepared to handle a nuclear terrorist attack or a large-scale natural catastrophe, lacks…

Education

Education Briefs

Bates student Ellen Southworth of Durango, spent the fall 2014 semester studying abroad in France at the Paris College of…

Local Briefs

Christmas tree recycling will be available at Santa Rita Park from Dec. 26 to Jan. 31. The city of Durango…

December 18, 2014

Arts and Entertainment

Arts briefs

Applications are now being accepted for one-week artist residencies at Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve and Education Center near Mancos. Tucked…

December 18, 2014

Outdoors

Outdoors Briefs

Steve Ilg of Durango won a biathlon race Sunday at Alberta Park at the Wolf Creek Ski Area. The event…

December 18, 2014

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – The computer files of more than 40,000 federal workers may have been compromised by a cyberattack at federal…

World Briefs

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Islamic extremists killed 35 people and kidnapped at least 185 in an attack near the town where…

Nation & World Briefs

WASHINGTON – Executions and new death sentences dropped to their lowest numbers in decades in 2014, an anti-death penalty group…

Local Briefs

The city of Durango Parking Division will remove the device for reading old cash keys from the Durango Transit Center…

Business

Business Briefs

The Southwest Colorado Small Business Development Center and First SouthWest Bank will sponsor a “Starting Your Business” workshop from 8…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration needed an exemption from new Obama administration rules restricting racial profiling by the government…

World Briefs

TOKYO — North Korea has asked the U.N. Security Council to investigate the CIA’s “brutal medieval” treatment of terrorism suspects…

Education

Education Briefs

Title VII Native American Education at Durango School District 9-R will host its Holiday Potluck Feast from 5:30 to 7:30…