Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave., will host award-winning authors Win and Meredith Blevins for a reading and signing of their new book, Darkness Rolling, the first book in the Yazzie…
Durango Natural Foods Co-op, 575 East Eighth Ave., will offer these programs: “De-stress Community Acupuncture Clinic” with Tyler VanGemert of Mountain Medicine will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday at…
Seniors Outdoors will host the following activities: A hike on Haflin Creek Trail to Missionary Ridge is scheduled at 8 a.m. Monday. Dogs on a leash will be allowed. Cost…
WASHINGTON – The engineer in last month’s fatal Amtrak crash wasn’t using his cellphone to talk, text or download anything just before the train sped off the tracks, investigators said…
The San Juan/Four Corners Native Plant Society will lead the free wildflower walk, “Wildflowers and Views,” on June 21 on The Knife Edge Trail in Mesa Verde National Park. The…
The 22nd annual Silverton Hillside Cemetery volunteer work day will be held from 10 a.m. to noon June 20. This is an opportunity to help the town of Silverton maintain,…
ABENGHAZI, Libya – UN-brokered negotiations aimed at stemming Libya’s collapse into a failed state threatened to fall apart after the country’s internationally recognized parliament Tuesday dropped out of the talks…
WASHINGTON – The House voted Tuesday to make permanent a moratorium that prevents states from taxing access to the Internet. Under current law, the moratorium ends Oct. 1. Lawmakers said…
Kristi Zink has opened Waterfall Spa. The spa, located on Waterfall Ranch in the Animas Valley, has four waterfalls on the ranch. The sound of water often is audible during…
Southwest Colorado Community College has named Anita Seamans as its new Law Enforcement Academy coordinator. Seamans has 32 years of experience in law enforcement, 21 of them as a police…
Trails 2000 will host a Build Day on the progressive-style trail maintenance project on Medicine Trail, in partnership with the Trails 2000 Gravity Council, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday.…
MEXICO CITY – Despite widespread disillusionment with his government, President Enrique Peña Nieto on Monday emerged from midterm elections with an expected congressional majority that will let him forge ahead…
HONOLULU – A parachute failed to inflate during a NASA test of new technology for landing larger spacecraft – and eventually astronauts – on Mars. NASA spokeswoman Kimberly Newton said…
Social-skills groups are available for teens and young adults. The groups use the UCLA PEERS program model. The six-week session helps youths with brain-based differences such as Aspergers, ADHD or…
DANNEMORA, N.Y. – Two murderers who used power tools to escape from prison must have taken days to cut through steel walls and pipes and break through the bricks, Gov.…
ELMAU, Germany – A top European Union official said Sunday that Greece’s creditors didn’t deliver a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum to end the standoff over the country’s international bailout, disputing how the…
Compañeros, Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center will present “Harvest of Empire, The Untold Story of Latinos in America,” documented by Juan Gonzales, ‘Democracy Now!’ host, at 1 p.m. June 14…
Express Employment Professionals will participate in Brand It Blue Day through Friday by collecting food donations to be given to the Durango Food Bank. People can donate nonperishable food items…
ROME – Naval vessels from Italy, Britain, Ireland and other countries steamed toward the waters off Libya on Saturday, bracing for the latest wave of migrants needing rescue from smugglers’…
WILMINGTON, Del. – Politicians, military leaders and celebrities from across the country came to bid farewell Saturday to former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, whose death at age 46 opened…
The Durango High Noon Rotary Club will host its club assembly from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio. The cost for lunch…
First United Methodist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive, will host the Rev. Jessica LaGrone, who will preach June 27 and June 28 during Pastor Jeff Huber’s “Women in the Bible” series.…
Danielle Craig graduated May 9 from Lubbock Christian University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication design. She is the daughter of Clark and Sharon Craig of Tulsa, Oklahoma,…
Aziz BAGHDAD – Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death…
NEW YORK – Google will release monthly reports on the performance of its self-driving cars, and it disclosed summaries of the 12 accidents that involved the vehicles. Google described all…
Increasing residential use of public lands has prompted the San Juan National Forest to put a special closure order in place to protect the Lower Hermosa area of the Columbine…
WASHINGTON – China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers, American…
The Center of Southwest Studies will begin its 2015 summer lecture series, “Imagining the West,” with textile dyes expert David Wenger, professor and director of the Lysosomal Diseases Testing Laboratory…
Work is progressing on schedule for the Colorado Department of Transportation’s project to improve U.S. Highway 160 between Bayfield and Yellow Jacket Pass (mile marker 103 east to mile marker…
RUSKIN, Fla. – A man who flew a gyrocopter through some of America’s most restricted airspace before landing at the U.S. Capitol says his employer, the United States Postal Service,…
