MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – An F-16 fighter jet smashed into a small plane Tuesday over South Carolina, killing two people and raining down plane parts and debris over a wide…
A short historical film featuring Gene Folsom will premier at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Animas Museum, 3065 West Second Ave. The Folsom family settled in Durango in 1877, and…
James Foster of Durango, chairman of Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting Network for the past two years, has been named lifetime chairman emeritus by a resolution of the organization’s board of…
The second annual Animas on the Animas Raft Trip and barbecue will be held Thursday. Animas High School students, parents, faculty members, staff members and alumni will meet at Mild…
The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. Fred Moeller will present his experiences taking part…
MOSCOW – A Russian military aircraft crashed Monday while taking off on a nighttime training flight and both pilots were killed, the Defense Ministry said. It was the fifth accident…
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration says it cannot support either the Senate or the House versions of bills being considered this week to update the No Child Left Behind education…
WASHINGTON – Members of Congress return from July Fourth fireworks and parades Tuesday facing a daunting summer workload and an impending deadline to fund the government or risk a shutdown…
QUITO, Ecuador – History’s first Latin American pope returned to Spanish-speaking South America for the first time on Sunday, bringing a message of solidarity with the region’s poor, who are…
4CORE is hosting a free building energy-code training session from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 23 at Pine River Valley Bank, 1701 Main Ave. The training will highlight changes…
NEW ORLEANS – About to be overrun by Germans, a young black lieutenant called in an artillery barrage on his own position, knowing he’d be killed. It was the only…
CAIRO – Two years to the day after the army overthrew Egypt’s Islamist president, the sounds coming from the mosque at Cairo’s Tahrir Square were sadly telling. At the focal…
Center of Southwest Studies continues its 2015 summer lecture series, “Imagining the West,” with longtime Fort Lewis College music faculty (retired) Linda Mack Berven’s talk, “Music about the West: Broadway…
A Veterans Breakfast will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. the first and third Sunday of every month at the Elks Lodge, 901 East Second Ave. The cost is…
Doreen Hunter will give a talk called “Poetry as Soul Work” at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, 419 San Juan Drive. Hunter will attempt to…
VIENNA – Hopes dimmed Friday of Iran fulfilling a key U.S. demand at nuclear talks by cooperating with a probe of allegations that it secretly worked on nuclear arms. Yukiya…
SEATTLE – A local health official says a woman killed by measles in Washington state had been vaccinated against the disease as a child but succumbed because she had a…
WASHINGTON – A coalition airstrike in Syria has killed a senior Islamic State leader, who has been responsible for moving fighters and weapons from Libya to Syria, the Pentagon said…
LONDON –A bizarre plan to relocate the entire population of Hong Kong to Northern Ireland was considered an option in the uncertain years before Britain handed back the former British…
Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., will host an opening reception for the new exhibit, “Strata: Books & Prints by Carol and Donn Rawlings,” from 5 to 7 p.m.…
Seniors Outdoors will offer these activities: A Monday bike ride for intermediate road cyclists will take place at 9:30 a.m. Monday. This is a no-drop, social ride of 16 miles…
The Supreme Court Nominating Commission invites qualified attorneys to apply for a Colorado Court of Appeals judgeship created by the appointment of Richard L. Gabriel to the Colorado Supreme Court,…
LYON, France – French President François Hollande said Wednesday that money is the main roadblock to a global accord at a United Nations climate conference in Paris this year. Poor…
WASHINGTON – A new poll finds that most Americans approve of the recent Supreme Court decision preserving the health-care law’s subsidized insurance premiums for people in all 50 states. Overall,…
Heart Safe La Plata, a local nonprofit organization, will offer a CPR Pro class from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday at Durango Fire & Rescue Station 1, 142 Sheppard Drive.…
The San Juan National Forest Columbine Ranger District is hosting public field trips to the Hermosa Special Management Area to allow participants to explore proposals for the Hermosa Creek Watershed…
A Harry Potter discussion and writing class taught by Rachel Turiel will take place from 3:45 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays from July 14 to Aug. 11 in the Storytime Room…
Christie LIVINGSTON, N.J. – A tough-talking New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie launched his 2016 campaign for president Tuesday with a promise to tell voters the truth even if it makes…
Alpine Bank was voted “Best Bank” and “Best Mortgage Broker” by readers of ColoradoBiz Magazine as part of the publication’s inaugural Best of Colorado Business Choice Awards. To determine the…
Durango Nature Studies will host a Full Moon Hike under the hunter’s moon from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday at Sale Barn trailhead. The hike is free for members and…
