Fort Lewis College will present the Common Reading Experience featuring various events. The first event will be the Life-Long Learning presentation titled “Answering Your Questions about Autism” at 7 p.m.…
WASHINGTON – Texas abortion clinics are asking the Supreme Court to take up a major case about abortion rights in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign. The clinics said…
In support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), Mercy Health Foundation invites the community to register for the 21st annual 5K Journey of Hope fun run/walk and the 10K…
Growing Partners of Southwest Colorado announces that Joni Podschun has been named executive director. Podschun grew up in rural Kansas. She worked for five years at Bread for the City…
The Durango Area Association of Realtors currently has funding available for nonprofit organizations in need. Requests are being accepted for local qualified nonprofit organizations within La Plata and San Juan…
Owlii.co has officially launched. Owlii is a rewards-based website that allows customers to earn coupons and rewards from the simple act of sharing. New local companies are signing up daily…
Fiorina WASHINGTON – CNN on Tuesday amended its criteria for the next Republican presidential debate, giving former technology executive Carly Fiorina a better chance at appearing in the Sept. 16…
Two new chefs will be teaching the culinary program at Manna Soup Kitchen. Culinary Manager McKenzie Miller graduated from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and…
Animas High School will offer these programs: The Parent Advisory Committee will meet from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Tuesday at Carver Brewing Co., 1022 Main Ave. All parents are welcome…
September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month and the Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., is celebrating by partnering with local businesses to offer discounts and incentives when people…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s warring president and prime minister have separately marked the 35th anniversary of a key deal between striking workers and communist authorities that opened the way to…
OLATHE, Kan. – The man who admitted killing three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites gave jurors a Nazi salute Monday after they convicted him of murder and…
Southwest Republican Women will host Mark Aspiri, international economist and businessman at a luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 15 at the DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio.…
HOUSTON – The man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a uniformed suburban Houston sheriff’s deputy had a lengthy criminal record going back a decade, but never…
ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels Boko Haram are trying to extend their violent campaign across the country including Lagos, the country largest city, an intelligence official said Sunday…
The fifth annual Produce Bounty will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 18-20 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall, 2500 Main Ave. Participants may donate…
Wolfwood Refuge will have an ambassador wolf from the refuge during Durango’s Art Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Four Leaves Winery, 528 Main Ave. Four Leaves…
HOUSTON – Prosecutors on Saturday charged a 30-year-old man with capital murder in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down from behind while filling up his patrol…
BANGKOK – Thai authorities arrested a foreign man Saturday they said had been holed up in a suburban apartment with bomb-making equipment and stacks of passports, the first possible breakthrough…
The Whole Expo will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 12 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 13 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds Exhibit…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday compared tensions between the U.S. and Israel over the Iranian nuclear deal to a family feud and said he expects quick improvements in…
WARSAW, Poland – A Polish official said Friday he has seen an image made by ground-penetrating radar that seemed to prove the discovery of an armored Nazi train missing in…
The public is invited to celebrate the 100th birthday of American monk and writer Thomas Merton from 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 12 at Inhabit, 1970 East Third Ave. The…
MONACO – In an unprecedented gesture of repentance, Monaco’s Prince Albert II apologized Thursday for his country’s role in deporting Jews to Nazi camps – seven decades after police rounded…
LOS ANGELES – Planned Parenthood Federation of America defended its practices Thursday in a lengthy letter to congressional leaders and included a report by experts it hired who found undercover…
Seniors Outdoors will offer these activities: An overnight backpack trip to Blue Lakes and a climb of Mt. Sneffels will take place at 8 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Four-wheel-drive and…
Durango Arts Center will present “Courageous Carnivores and Compromised Conservationists,” a lecture by Michael Soulé, environmentalist, conservation biologist and author, on Thursday.Courtesy of Durango Arts Center Children and teenagers are…
The Ignacio Community Library, 470 Goddard Ave., will offer these programs: The Tween After School program will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. every Wednesday. Programs will include mini…
MINSK, Belarus – The warring sides in the eastern Ukraine conflict have called for a cease-fire Sept. 1, the day that the new school year is to begin. Speaking after…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Tennessee judge has upheld the state’s lethal-injection process for executing inmates. Davidson County Chancery Judge Claudia Bonnyman said Wednesday from the bench that the plaintiffs, 33…
