The future looks bright for the Bayfield High School boys basketball team. Bayfield Middle School sent a team of seventh and eighth graders to a tournament Saturday in Colorado Springs,…
WASHINGTON – The parents of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two black men who died in encounters with white police officers, joined with civil-rights leaders Thursday to call for a…
UNITED NATIONS – Iran’s president warned world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday that the goal of extremists creating chaos in the Mideast is the destruction of civilization…
Onward! A Legacy Foundation is a community foundation dedicated to the philanthropic health of Southwest Colorado and is launching its first grant cycle. The foundation was started in Cortez in…
NEW ORLEANS – BP wants its money back – hundreds of millions of dollars of it – but a federal judge said Wednesday that the oil giant must stand by…
BAGHDAD – The Islamic State group Tuesday paraded captured Iraqi troops through the streets of a militant stronghold west of Baghdad, residents said. Residents of Fallujah said about 30 men…
NEW YORK – U.S. health officials Tuesday laid out worst-case and best-case scenarios for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, warning that the number of infected people could explode to…
Zebulon L. Smith, a certified public accountant, has joined FredrickZink & Associates, PC – an accounting, tax and business-consulting firm in Durango – as a staff accountant. A Gunnison native,…
The city of Durango contracting with Four Corners Materials will begin Phase II of the Dominguez Drive/Walmart paving project today. Crews will remove the old asphalt on both the North…
In honor of Wilderness Week, San Juan Mountains Association in partnership with the Tres Rios Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management will sponsor a lecture by Chris Barns,…
Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave., will be celebrating 30 years of independent book-selling all week with deals, specials and a party. On tap: “Thirty Years of Favorites,” an extensive list…
WASHINGTON – Investigators found more than 800 rounds of ammunition, a machete and two hatchets in the car of the former soldier accused of scaling the White House fence and…
San Juan Basin Health Department announces a two-year grant from the Colorado Health Foundation to provide Project SPARK (sports, play and active recreation for kids) at Kids’ Camp in Durango…
In honor of Wilderness Celebration Week, San Juan Mountains Association in partnership with the Tres Rios Bureau of Land Management Field Office will sponsor a lecture by Chris Barns, Wilderness…
SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly three-dozen structures were destroyed in a massive Northern California wildfire that continues to spread more than a week after it started, officials said Sunday. According to…
Teams assess damage as massive wildfire burns POLLOCK PINES, Calif. – Assessment teams hoped to get an idea Saturday of just how many structures have been damaged or destroyed by…
MINSK, Belarus – Sporadic artillery fire hit parts of eastern Ukraine on Saturday, hours after negotiators agreed to create a buffer zone between government troops and pro-Russian militants by halting…
ARVADA – The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is moving its forensic lab to a bigger building to accommodate a rising demand for DNA analysis. The CBI will move into industrial…
The second annual Peace & Unity Festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. today at Buckley Park. This is an all ages gathering focused around creating space…
Bonnie Miller will give a talk called “Contemplating Afterlife” at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalists Fellowship, 419 San Juan Drive. During the service, people will hear various statements…
WASHINGTON – The Army’s top officer warned Friday that it will become increasingly difficult to target and launch precision airstrikes against Islamic State militants hiding among the Iraqi population. Army…
NEW YORK – Home Depot said that 56 million debit and credit cards are estimated to have been breached in a data theft between April and September at its stores…
The local artistic community is invited to meet Cristie Scott, the new executive director of the Durango Arts Center, at a meet and greet from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday…
The latest rock climbing guide to the Durango area has been released. The fifth edition of Durango Sandstone – The Save the Anchor Biner Edition is available at climbing stores…
BEIRUT – Islamic State militiamen backed by tanks defiantly advanced Thursday in Syria, capturing more than 20 Kurdish villages as the international community strains to assemble a coalition that might…
WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House voted grudgingly to give the administration authority to train and arm Syrian rebels Wednesday as President Barack Obama emphasized anew that American forces “do not…
The town of Dolores has contracted with D & L Construction to build sidewalk, curb and gutter along Railroad Avenue (Colorado Highway 145). The project will construct about 600 square…
Durango Nature Studies will host a Natural History Workshop from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Durango Nature Center. The cost is $10 for nonmembers. The workshop is free…
EDINBURGH, Scotland – The two sides in Scotland’s independence debate are scrambling to convert undecided voters, with just two days to go until a referendum on separation. Anti-independence campaigners are…
WASHINGTON – The poverty rate in the United States has dropped for the first time since 2006, bringing a bit of encouraging news about the nation’s economy as Congress gears…
