COENHAGEN, Denmark – Rescue workers used shovels, excavators, search dogs and powerful lamps to dig through tons of snow in total darkness Saturday after an avalanche smashed into houses on…
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – The Steamboat Springs City Council has reversed itself and decided to give the public a more thorough summary of a recent internal police investigation. The decision to…
Heritage Auctions has announced the sale of a Roosevelt dime that was minted onto a nail.Heritage Auctions via AP President Obama has finalized a pay raise for federal employees in…
The following is the holiday schedule for the city of Durango: City administrative offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, including offices at City Hall, River City Hall, police station…
Hasbro on Friday filed a response to a lawsuit denying a toy inventor’s claims that her late husband owns the rights to the board game, The Game of Life.Steven Senne/Associated…
WARSAW, Poland – An 18th-century marble bust of the goddess Diana looted by the Nazis in 1940 has returned to Warsaw from Vienna, where it recently surfaced at an auction…
St. Columba Parish invites Catholics to return to the church. The parish offers a program called “Landings” as a way to explore faith and spirituality. During several sessions, a small…
NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans’ leaders on Thursday made a sweeping move to break with the city’s Confederate past when the City Council voted to remove prominent Confederate monuments along…
The Durango Arts Center is accepting requests for funding of 2016 nonprofit arts and culture programs, made possible by the city of Durango’s Arts & Culture Block Grant. This grant…
The Nordic Center at Purgatory is open to the public for the winter season. The center will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day. The center offers…
Plant-A-Tree holiday gift certificates are on sale at San Juan National Forest offices. Each $20 donation to the Plant-a-Tree Program will result in 10 seedlings being planted locally on the…
San Juan Basin Health Department is co-sponsoring a walk-in enrollment and information event about signing up for health insurance from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the La Plata…
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo has put the golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun back on display after repairs were finished.Nariman El-Mofty/Associated Press file photo BALTIMORE – A judge declared…
Road Runner Transit will not operate on Dec. 25. Ignacio to Durango routes will end at 2 p.m. Dec. 24. There are no changes planned for Dec. 31. There will…
Marechal Know Your Dough, a local nonprofit providing financial literacy for youth and young adults is the recipient of a Cornerstone Grant through the Community Foundation. The $1,000 award will…
WASHINGTON – The United States and Cuba are close to an agreement on restoring regularly scheduled, commercial flights between the countries, a senior American diplomat said Tuesday, as talks on…
PARIS – A French judicial official and French police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested and is being held for questioning about the deadly Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.…
The Early Childhood Council of La Plata County will offer a local Expanding Quality in Infant/Toddler Care Training Program. This 48-hour Colorado Department of Human Services-approved training will begin Jan.…
A Democratic Debate Watch Party will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Durango Joe’s, 732 E. College Drive. Deadline extended for boards, commissions The La Plata County…
Only registered Democrats and Republicans are eligible to vote in the March 1 caucus to support their presidential candidate of choice. To participate in the caucus, people can register at…
WASHINGTON – The worst-kept secret in the financial world is that the Federal Reserve is all but sure Wednesday to raise interest rates from record lows by a modest quarter…
LOS ANGELES – A black man who was fatally shot by Los Angeles deputies kept holding a gun as he lay dying on the ground, authorities said Sunday in response…
The Rocky Mountain Region of the U.S. Forest Service announces that it will be advertising more than 600 temporary positions throughout the region’s national forests and grasslands starting Jan. 7.…
Maria’s Bookshop in partnership with the Durango Education Foundation and Durango School District 9-R will offer a book tree to benefit children in 9-R. The tree will be located near…
KABUL, Afghanistan – Attackers entered the Spanish Embassy in Kabul after a deadly car bombing in a diplomatic neighborhood of the Afghan capital, engaging in an hour-long shootout with security…
Stillwater Music will hold its annual Winter Wonder Bands concert and silent auction from noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the River Bend Ranch, two miles north of Durango at…
Briana Pearse, of Durango, is an admission ambassador for Fort Lewis College for the 2015-16 academic year. Pearse’s current major is biology with a music minor. Admission ambassadors play a…
HAVANA – Cuba and the United States announced Friday they have struck a deal to re-establish direct mail service, which was cut in 1963 at the height of Cold War…
WASHINGTON – There has yet to be a confirmed U.S. collision between a drone and a manned aircraft, but there’s a growing number of close calls as drones fly where…
JERUSALEM – Donald Trump on Thursday called off a planned December trip to Israel, shelving what was shaping up to be an awkward visit by the Republican presidential front-runner following…
