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‘Opening our arms and our hearts’

Rev. Koenigsfeld is leaving St. Columba after 10 years

EPA cleans up Rico’s mineral legacy

Settling ponds and wetlands help clean contaminated water from mines near Rico. An abandoned water treatment tank sits in the…

Fire bans may soon be here

City’s July 4th fireworks is still a go – for now

No doubt: It’s a bad drought

Southwest Colorado counties declared disaster areas

Beating the heat

A father and son escape the extreme heat by taking their paddle boards out on the Animas River. Durango’s high…

Chopper retrieves injured cyclist

mountain bike crash, man is taken to Durango hospital

Hiker missing in Mesa Verde

The hiker, Mitchell Stehling, told his wife and parents he was going to visit Spruce Tree House, a cliff dwelling…

Medical marijuana farm approved for Hesperus

The permit for the Hesperus Mountain Healers optional premises was unanimously approved by the La Plata County Board of County…

Bayfield native gets ‘chopped’ – literally and figuratively

He passed the appetizer round by making a chilled black radish key lime broth with marinated tuna belly. His entrée…

Searchers look for missing hiker

man told relatives he was going to Mesa Verde site

Electricity future dim in Colo.?

engineers give state a ‘D’ for future planning

Photographing of city records may be banned

cameras cutting into Durango’s copying fees

Hold your horses

Lucas Robbins, 13, carries the ball away from Henry Haggart, 12, in an afternoon game of bike polo at Buckley…

Special-needs camp kicks off

Participants do everything from playing kickball and basketball to going on a rafting trip with Adaptive Sports Association. “Quite a…

Riverhouse adds elbow room

welcome spaces open, but doesn’t solve lack of child care

Lawmaker starts cleaning uranium mines

Rep. Don Coram bought four mining operations in 1998

A sunbaked ride with lots of friends

DHS’s air-conditioning provides needed relieffor ‘Rockies’ cyclists

The power of the pedal

2,000 cyclists set to traverse 513 miles riding to help nonprofit organizations

Local teenager is chosen to be Dedicated Dem

Searfus heads for Big Apple to campaign for Christine Quinn

Running for a cause

McLachlan again defends his gun votes

Rep. Mike McLachlan, D-Durango, takes questions during a town hall meeting Saturday morning at Durango Public Library. The meeting became…

Why poultry raised in Durango can’t go to market

out, it really is a chicken and egg problem

2,400 pedalers with ‘Ride the Rockies’ to come through Durango

The route changes every year. The last time it came through Durango was 2010. The tour will head to Pagosa…

Rapid rodeo

Nancy Murbach of Scottsdale, Ariz., said she grew up in California surfing on anything that would float and decided to…

Before Angelina Jolie, local women understood

Residents had mastectomies after learning of genetic mutation

Air tankers cleared for firefighting

applauds breakthrough

Net full of life

Pete Deren, a fisheries biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, empties a net full of brown and rainbow trout into…

64 people in Durango didn’t ‘Click It’

The crackdown occurred during the “Click It or Ticket” campaign May 20 through June 2. Law enforcement agencies throughout Colorado…

Tipton’s vote upsets local immigration group

Congressman ‘empathetic,’ spokesman says

Sex assault earns man 2 years in jail

Valenciadu1-i-syn “I wish I could take it back,” he said through tears. Deputy District Attorney Brian Imel asked that Valencia…