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The city of Durango Parking Division will remove the device for reading old cash keys from the Durango Transit Center at the end of December. The program to exchange the…
Local Briefs
Business
Business Briefs
The Southwest Colorado Small Business Development Center and First SouthWest Bank will sponsor a “Starting Your Business” workshop from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 8 at the Durango Public…
Nation & World
Nation Briefs
WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration needed an exemption from new Obama administration rules restricting racial profiling by the government so the TSA could target travelers for extra scrutiny based…
Nation & World
World Briefs
TOKYO — North Korea has asked the U.N. Security Council to investigate the CIA’s “brutal medieval” treatment of terrorism suspects just as the council agreed to consider a resolution calling…
Education
Education Briefs
Title VII Native American Education at Durango School District 9-R will host its Holiday Potluck Feast from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds Extension Building,…
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This is the holiday schedule for the city of Durango: City administrative offices will be closed Dec. 24-25, including offices at City Hall, River City Hall, police station and substation,…
Food
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Don’t have time for a Christmas tamalada, the gathering of the clan to make 100s of tamales for the holiday season? Not to fear, Linda is here. That would be…
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Allison Morrissey, newly elected La Plata County Treasurer, will speak to the Rotary Club of Durango at 6 p.m. Dec. 30 at the Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave., about her…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
Durango Barbershoppers will perform their annual Christmas concert on Tuesday. The show – “Need a Little Christmas?” – will take place at 7 p.m. at Durango’s Main Mall, 835 Main…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
PENNSBURG, Pa. – A man suspected of going to three houses in the Philadelphia suburbs and fatally shooting six people, including his ex-wife and her teenage niece, was at large,…
Health
Health Briefs
The practitioners at Pura Vida Healthcare will host a free afternoon of 20-minute sessions and classes from noon to 5 p.m. Jan. 10 at 160 E. 12th St., Suite 1.…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
The Department of Defense says two servicemen died from wounds suffered during an attack in Afghanistan. Officials said Sunday that U.S. Army Spc. Wyatt J. Martin of Mesa, Arizona, and…
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Ignacio Wrestling Association, a nonprofit organization started to promote Ignacio Wrestling and the surrounding communities, announces its merger with the community’s traveling, tournament Pee Wee program as of Sept. 1.…
Nation & World
World Briefs
MUBI, Nigeria – With a military escort instead of the usual pomp, the Emir of Mubi was reinstalled Friday in his palace, where until recently flew the black-and-white flag of…
Nation & World
Nation Briefs
WASHINGTON – When CIA interrogators were torturing accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at a secret prison in Poland in March 2003, a top CIA analyst asked them to…
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Local Briefs
The La Plata County Humane Society will host the 14 Dog Days of Christmas through Dec. 24. Usually a dog that has been at the humane society for a long…
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The Durango High Noon Rotary Club will meet from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio. The cost for lunch is $15. Chris…
Religion
Religion Briefs
The Durango Herald will print a schedule of Christmas and holiday services Dec. 20. Churches and organizations may submit information to Ann Butler at [email protected] or 375-4584. Submissions must be…
Nation & World
World Briefs
LONDON – The airspace over London was briefly closed Friday afternoon due to what authorities said was a computer failure at one of Britain’s two air traffic control centers. The…
Nation & World
Nation Briefs
PORTLAND, Ore. – The economic recovery has not been equal among the races, according to a Pew Research Center study released Friday. The study found that the wealth gap between…
Education
Education Briefs
Pueblo Community College’s solution for meeting skilled manufacturing workforce needs in its service areas has earned its selection of finalists for a national innovation award. The college’s development of a…
Nation & World
World Briefs
VIENNA – The U.N. nuclear agency on Thursday turned down an offer by Iran to visit a site, saying access to it would not help advance its probe of suspicions…
Nation & World
Nation Brief
WASHINGTON – In a victory for unions, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday that employees can use their company email accounts for union organizing and other workplace-related purposes, if…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
The Stillwater Foundation’s fourth annual Winter Wonder Bands fundraising concert will take place from 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Durango VFW Hall, 1533 Main Ave. The musical event…
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McDonald’s will host “Breakfast with Santa” from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at McDonald’s, 201 West College Drive. Santa will arrive by fire truck. McDonald’s will sponsor free photos with…
Outdoors
Outdoors Brief
Seniors Outdoors will host these activities: John Martin will lead a snowshoeing group in the mountains Saturday. An avalanche beacon and shovel will be required. Turn-backs with a partner may…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
WASHINGTON – The chairman of a special House committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, strongly defended his inquiry Wednesday, even as Democrats and some Republicans said previous…
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The Old Fort Farm Stand will be on the Fort Lewis College campus from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday. The farm stand will have potatoes, yellow onions, delicata squash, hop…
Nation & World
Nation Briefs
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State John Kerry asked Congress on Tuesday for new war powers to provide the legal grounding for U.S. military operations against the Islamic State, but said…
Nation & World
World Brief
MOSCOW – Russia’s richest man said he bought James D. Watson’s Nobel Prize medal at Christie’s in order to return it to the scientist. Alisher Usmanov, a metal and telecommunications…