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What will insurance cost you in Colo.?

Durango individual could pay $228 to $418 per month

Plastic-bag fee opponents near goal

is to get issue on November ballot

Schools, students growing up

Year’s start brings more security, more testing, more buildings

Teen pleads guilty to burglary, sex assault

up to 20-year sentence

City Hall to close for a few hours for drill

City Hall, 949 E. Second Ave., will be closed Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Anyone wanting to pay…

Bear bites camper near Pagosa Springs

treated for puncture wounds

No glove? Catch the ball in your cup of beer

La Plata County Extension Office Director Darrin Parmenter caught a foul ball in his beer during Tuesday night’s Rockies game…

No new details in Redwine case

The Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the FBI and Colorado Bureau of Investigation, searched Redwine’s home as part of its…

Investigators search Mark Redwine’s house

Sheriff says he expects to learn today if anything significant was found

Boys of the gridiron

‘Sometimes it hurts, but it goes away’

Shut-down Mancos mill fined $337,167

board says mercury, arsenic at unacceptable levels

Grand jury indicts ex-undersheriff

to face charges of embezzlement, misconduct

Climbing the twin mountains of cancer

Durango woman among those facing harsh treatments, high bills

Guv hits trail for school-tax campaign

Opponent: Including local taxes, state is ‘anything but undertaxed’

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An eye on high-hazard dams

Electra Lake gets a state fix, but money is tight

Police in pursuit of stabbing suspect after fight at Moe’s

man is sent to Mercy hospital with ‘pretty serious’ wound to neck

District 9-R touts positive test scores

Bayfield results ‘mixed;’ Ignacio’s high school up

Woman to face attempted murder charges

arrive at 14th Street house after neighbor reports odor of gas

Efforts for small-scale hydropower become law

Cutting red tape opens opportunity for emissions-free power

Former County Extension Office director dies

Phyllis Lee spent 44 years in service

Durango water rates could go up by 10 percent in 2014

A residential customer consuming 2,000 gallons a month, which is the minimum rate for a city water charge, could see…

Recreational pot shops in county on hold

attorney doesn’t expect a revenue bonanza from sales

Region needs more nurses

Colorado medical educators make the case Tuesday