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James Ranch seeks county permit to grow business

levels emerge as a touchy issue

Growth, natural gas industry decline fuels county’s financial woes

asks county for solutions during budget discussion

Colorado delegates back Cruz over Trump

Symbolic gesture may foreshadow troubles for GOP

Mancos Creative District hires administrator Imel

include supporting arts projects, marketing

Animas High students’ sun-powered contraption qualifies for Solar Car Challenge

Hitting 60 mph ‘terrifying stupid and awesome’

XTO Energy fined $10,000 for March spill

Approximately 70 barrels of oil and gas by-product released into Lone Hollow Creek

Commissioners vote to seek tax increase for airport expansion

Westendorff wants to postpone measure to 2017

Extension of marijuana shop hours clears first City Council hurdle

Testing labs could get local licenses for medical marijuana by August

Homeless camp stabbing investigation suspended

of the four men involved wish to pursue charges

Power restored after outage in Animas Valley

du1-i-syn The outage began at 8:49 a.m. and affected more than 900 customers in the central and northern part of…

Searchers credit father for keeping kids safe during Weminuche trek

had tent, other supplies for wilderness overnights

FLC students design campus composting facility

Seven Physics and Engineering Department students spent the fall 2015 semester designing a composting and equipment storage facility for FLC’s…

Durango’s ‘Godfather of Barbershop’ Carroll ‘Dr. Pete’ Peterson dies at 86

Longtime Fort Lewis College professor created thriving English department

Colorado delegation at center of convention chaos

against Donald Trump attempted on first day of RNC

Black Ridge Fire now 100 percent contained

State, federal crews handling cleanup, monitoring

Photo: Brewers ride for a cause

Another red flag, no-burn day in Southwest Colorado

of thunderstorms before another dry spell

Man, 3 children found safe by other hikers

brought to Pine River trailhead

Durango woman dies, Mancos man injured in motorcycle crash

du1-i-syn On Monday, the Durango woman was identified as Kathleen Morrissey. The San Miguel Sheriff’s Office withheld the name of…

Gluzman, Prutsman and Canellakis to appear at Music in the Mountains

Durango is fortunate to have top-notch soloists and musicians participate in the Music in the Mountains classical music festival each…

Caption This!: ‘No ma’am, I am not a Pokemon’

This week’s photo comes from reader Debbie Davis, who took this photo of a baby bird in one of the…

La Plata County to hold Tuesday 2017 budget meeting

Financial report shows growth beginning to outpace funds

Dry spell could snap early this week

Weather Service predicts the start of monsoon season

Sheriff’s Office investigating stabbing at Durango homeless camp

31-year-old sent to Mercy Regional Medical Center