Regional News
Region Briefs
DENVER – A judge says lawsuits can move forward against the owner of the Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people and injured 70 others in 2012. The…
Local Briefs
Local News
Local Briefs
The Colorado State Patrol will increase its DUI education and enforcement through The Heat Is On campaign through Sept. 2. The Colorado Department of Transportation also is at the peak…
Local News
Local Briefs
Durango Nursery and Supply, 271 Kaycee Lane, will host the last Third Thursday Ladies Night from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday. Come by for sales on all blue blooming plants,…
Religion
Religion Briefs
Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University will be held at these locations: Beginning at 6 p.m. Sept. 3 at First United Methodist Church, 2917 Aspen Drive. For more information or to…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been indicted for abuse of power after carrying out a threat to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors. The Republican governor…
Education
Education Briefs
Berghorn Former Durango resident Jeffrey Berghorn graduated from Colorado Mesa University with a degree in energy and land management. While at CMU, Berghorn played four years of college football. Berghorn…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
The Durango Arts Center recently announced the 10 recipients of its inaugural Microgrant program, which aims to support local artists’ with small grants. Winners of $250 grants are Dan Groth,…
Local News
Local Briefs
Colorado Senior Health Insurance Assistance Program will provide a free training from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Durango-La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Counselors are needed…
Outdoors
Outdoors Briefs
Durango Nature Studies will host these programs: An Animal Signs Workshop will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Durango Nature Center. The cost is $10…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
HIDALGO, Texas – The first wave of National Guard troops has taken up observation posts along the Texas-Mexico border. Texas National Guard Master Sgt. Ken Walker of the Joint Counterdrug…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
SAN FRANCISCO –Sheriff’s officials in the San Francisco Bay Area defended their decision to release details about how actor Robin Williams killed himself, saying state law requires they be disclosed…
Regional News
Colorado Briefs
DENVER – The Capitol dome’s $17 million renovation is nearly complete. On Wednesday morning, gilders rappelled down the dome to begin touching up gold leaf that was damaged when the…
Good Earth
Earth Briefs
Telluride will host the annual Water 101 Seminar from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 22 at the Telluride Town Council Chambers Rebekah Hall, 113 East Columbia Ave. The seminar…
Regional News
Regional Briefs
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly has signed an executive order aimed at improving 911 service and emergency communications across the reservation. The order calls for collaboration…
Local News
Local Briefs
Ignacio Community Library, 470 Goddard Ave., is offering Kindle Paperwhites for checkout. These pre-loaded devices allow patrons to read the newest titles, as well as classics, in the mystery fiction,…
Nation & World
Nation Brief
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of thousands of people who signed up under the new health-care law risk losing their taxpayer-subsidized insurance unless they act quickly to resolve questions about their citizenship…
Local News
Local Briefs
A Puppy Play Party and Dog Happy Hour will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the play yard at the La Plata County Humane Society, 1111 South…
Nation & World
World Briefs
CANBERRA, Australia – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday described a photograph of a Sydney-born 7-year-old boy clutching the severed head of a Syrian soldier as “disturbing” and…
Business
Business Briefs
Peak physical therapy announces, Stephanie Roberts has successfully completed a doctorate in physical therapy from Regis University in Denver. She graduated from the program with honors. Emphasis was placed on…
Food
On the side
Really want to know how to can the summer’s bounty for winter’s dark days? Wendy Rice and the Colorado State University Extension office are offering a series of how-to classes…
Education
Education Briefs
All ninth-grade Animas High School students will have student orientation from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Monday , from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Tuesday and from 8:15 a.m. to…
Local News
Local Briefs
The city of Durango has partnered with Peak Democracy to launch Virtual City Hall, an online platform designed to engage city residents in a conversation that will harness their input…
Regional News
Colorado Briefs
DENVER – A 19-year-old suburban Denver woman accused of trying to help a foreign terrorist organization plans to plead guilty in the case. Federal documents filed Friday say an agreement…
Arts and Entertainment
Art Briefs
The True West Railfest is bringing a free screening of the 1957 film “Night Passage” to the Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive, at 8 p.m. Thursday. The film,…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Three missionaries who worked with patients infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia are back in the United States and feeling upbeat after their trans-Atlantic charter flight,…
Health
Health Briefs
The Upper Pine River Fire Protection District will offer CPR and first aid classes at the Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive. The next CPR class will be held…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in a surprise speech late Sunday, resisted calls for his resignation and accused the country’s new president of violating the constitution, plunging…
Local News
Local Briefs
The Ignacio FFA Booster Club will host the “Taste of the Four Corners” fundraiser from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Fox Fire Farms, 5513 County Road 321, Ignacio. Dinner…
Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
Judge denies GM motion to dismiss ignition lawsuit NEW YORK – A Georgia judge has denied a motion by General Motors to dismiss a wrongful death case against the automaker…
Local News
Local Briefs
Steve Ruddell of CarbonVerde, LLC will speak to the Rotary Club of Durango at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave. After first presenting on the U.S.…