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Beating the heat

A father and son escape the extreme heat by taking their paddle boards out on the Animas River. Durango’s high…

Chopper retrieves injured cyclist

mountain bike crash, man is taken to Durango hospital

Hold your horses

Lucas Robbins, 13, carries the ball away from Henry Haggart, 12, in an afternoon game of bike polo at Buckley…

Special-needs camp kicks off

Participants do everything from playing kickball and basketball to going on a rafting trip with Adaptive Sports Association. “Quite a…

Running for a cause

McLachlan again defends his gun votes

Rep. Mike McLachlan, D-Durango, takes questions during a town hall meeting Saturday morning at Durango Public Library. The meeting became…

Net full of life

Pete Deren, a fisheries biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, empties a net full of brown and rainbow trout into…

House raising

Summer on the mountain

Dana Labiak, 13, and her mother, Joanne Labiak, both of Chicago, were visiting Durango and Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort…

Lightning sparks several fires

Conditions are ripe for more blazes over the next few days

Bear-aware time

Bicyclists pause for a young bear along the Animas River Trail on Thursday evening. The first bear reported out of…

‘Here, fishy, fishy!’

Five-year-old Marina Bridge and her brother Tayton, 4, learn to appreciate nature, as well as how to be patient, while…

A home for downhill bikers?

Proposed course at Logchutes generating debate

The finishing touches

Zak Fleming finishes the trim on the window sills of the Strater Hotel under Thursday’s brilliant blue skies. Keep the…

Say hello to gusty weather

A pedestrian crosses Eighth Street on Thursday morning heading toward the Durango Post Office as brisk winds catch the American…

Rain in the forecast

One-year-old Toby Davis watches mom, Mandi Davis, give competitors in the 12th annual Battle of the Animas raft race a…

Slackers cruze for fun, funds

Vikings conquer Iron Horse Cruzer Crit

‘Have fun, don’t crash’

Horse gives bicyclists lots of reasons to ride

Small brush, big sidewalk

Durango Montessori Elementary School third-grader Ben Stoddard puts a meticulous cleaning to the sidewalks of downtown Durango on Friday morning.…

Atlatl battle

Some Columbine Christian School students held a throwing competition Thursday using their hand-crafted atlatls, an ancient hunting tool used by…

Good day, sunshine

“It’s finally warm enough,” said Alex Riley, who has been bouldering several times a week for the last few weeks.…

Steady as she goes

Jeanne Matthews with the La Plata County Road and Bridge Department checks the nozzle while painting a stripe Tuesday along…

Mercury campus construction

Drainage piping is the backdrop to a construction worker as building continues Monday on the new $20 million Mercury campus…

Diggin’ it

Volunteers have been showing up Saturdays at Needham Elementary School to work on the community garden, building planter boxes, putting…