A helicopter drops water on a small brush fire just south of Silverton early Wednesday afternoon, while a Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge maintenance car and passenger train wait. The…
Investigators learned of the lab June 2 from the property owner, who found the lab in an outbuilding. Authorities executed a search warrant June 3 and entered the building. Inside,…
More good news came from the West Fork Complex, three fires burning near Wolf Creek Pass in both the San Juan and Rio Grande national forests. “With the premonsoonal moisture,…
David Grant White, 30, died May 10 after his 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee flipped and landed in an irrigation ditch along East Animas Road (County Road 250). The crash was…
Commissioners’ vote to allow equal competition among local businesses
Stapletondu1-i-syn “Centralizing the process in which Colorado issues debt is not the most glamorous function, but this is the nuts and bolts of the treasurer’s office. I am excited that…
The first rescue occurred about 3 p.m. July 3 when a man rolled an all-terrain vehicle down a mountainside while trying to turn it around about five miles into the…
Marie Bedard and her friend Linda Kelley dug out their umbrellas for a walk downtown Tuesday afternoon. “It feels good. I’m ready for rain,” Kelley said. Monsoons appear to have…
toll takers getting ready for August debut
In partnership with Jim Dyer and Healthy Community Food Systems and Bear Smart Durango, the Colorado State University Extension Office has established a Fruit Gleaning Program: a website to match…
agreement avoids prosecution for suspected real estate frauds
Helicopter redirected to Silverton after false alarm involving drunken man
Andrea Neu, 22, beat 39 other beauty pageant contestants to be named the 2013 Miss U.S. International winner Sunday night in Kissimmee, Fla. Miss International is one of the four…
Joe “The Blacksmith” Vachon hammers a knife out of recycled steel. Vachon learned to work with steel in art school, and he became a blacksmith in a teepee on a…
No structures were threatened by the Cat Fire on Sunday evening, said Pam Wilson, fire information officer with the Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch, in a news release issued Sunday evening.…
Outside, inside forces prompt district to seek mill-levy increase
On March 27, Fuschetto sent an email entitled, “MYRA Mains School!!!” to the Colorado Department of Education’s Kristin Lortie and the Building Excellent Schools Today grant program’s Ted Hughes, among…
26 uncovered – some century-old remains of Native Americans
