Local Briefs

Local Briefs

Housing Solutions for the Southwest is the new administering agency of the Community Emergency Assistance Coalition, a one-time emergency financial-assistance…

February 4, 2014

Education

Education Briefs

Durango High School’s Peer Influence Club will host its second annual Valentine’s Dance for students with special needs from noon…

February 4, 2014

Nation/World Briefs

INDIANAPOLIS – A nationwide hotel operator is investigating a suspected data security breach that may have compromised credit-card and debit…

February 3, 2014

Local Briefs

Historical information about the Animas City/ Silverton Toll Road (established 1876), the historic village of Rockwood and the Rockwood Cemetery…

February 3, 2014

Health

Health Briefs

Citizens Health Advisory Council has selected Pattie Adler as its new executive director. Adler began her new position in December…

February 2, 2014

Local Briefs

The Four Corners Back Country Horsemen will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Pine River Senior Center, 111…

World Briefs

MUNICH – Russia’s foreign minister slammed Western support of Ukraine’s opposition, suggesting Saturday that it is helping fuel the escalation…

Nation Briefs

Navy names ship in honor of astronaut John Glenn SAN DIEGO – The military on Saturday christened a Navy logistics…

Local Briefs

The Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado State Patrol and law enforcement agencies statewide – along with the National Football League,…

Religion

Religion Briefs

John Paul II Catholic Church will host a Super Bowl party Sunday at the church, 353 S. Pagosa Blvd. in…

Local Briefs

Growing Partners of Southwest Colorado will present the sixth annual Homegrown Retreat called “Home Cookin’: A Showcase of Regional Innovative…

Education

Education Brief

University of Arkansas Honors College students Adel Vaughn and Mary Nell Patterson have won the Student Award in the Envision…

Nation/World Briefs

TRENTON, N.J. – A former loyalist of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who oversaw lane closings near the George Washington…

Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs for Jan. 31

Playwright Danny Mitarotondo’s work commissioned especially for Fort Lewis College Theatre, “Sun and Room,” has been invited to participate in…

January 30, 2014

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – After more than two years of partisan squabbles over food and farm policy, the House passed and sent…

January 29, 2014

Business

Business Briefs

Pruettdu1-i-syn REI named its 2013 Vendor Partner of the Year awards during the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show. Osprey…

January 27, 2014

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – A House plan to make major cuts to food stamps would be scaled back under a bipartisan agreement…

January 27, 2014

World Briefs

GENEVA – The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian…

January 27, 2014

Local Briefs

People should be aware of crews and equipment with police escorts setting up barricades in lanes of traffic on Main…

January 26, 2014

Local Briefs

Lu Nettleton of the Colorado Plateau Growers Association will present a workshop about the local production of marijuana at 12:30…

Regional News

Nation/World Briefs

TOLEDO, Ohio – Two firefighters battling a blaze Sunday at an apartment complex near downtown Toledo have been killed. Toledo…

Health

Health Briefs

Heart Safe La Plata will host these classes at the Durango Fire Protection District training room, 142 Sheppard Drive: An…

Business

Business Briefs

Scholfielddu1-i-syn The Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center announces its new location in the Commons Building, 701 Camino del Rio, Suite…

Local Briefs

The Durango Discovery Museum, 1333 Camino del Rio, will host these programs: Trivia takes place at 6 p.m. every Thursday.…

Nation Briefs

281 passengers ill aboard Royal Caribbean ship SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – Warning that a “major loss of life” could result from an accident involving the increasing use of trains…

World Briefs

KOLKATA, India – A 20-year-old Indian woman said she was gang-raped on the orders of a village council because she…

Local Briefs

Barbara Tobin Klema will teach the scientific method of plant identification in an eight-week course from 8 to 11 a.m.…

Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs for Jan. 24

Area artists are invited to submit works for the Lost Dog Bar & Lounge annual Snowdown Art Show. The show…