Local News

Drug overdose deaths increase

Montezuma County sheriff reissues call for a detox center

Local Briefs

San Juan Basin Health recommends that every private well used for drinking water be tested. Private wells should be tested…

Thursday Durango Dayplanner

Durango High Noon Rotary meeting, noon, DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Camino del Rio, www.durangohighnoonrotary.com. Kiwanis Club of Durango, noon, Durango Community…

Fort Lewis College films win gold medals

Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file photo <br><br>The new Fort Lewis College Geosciences, Physics and Engineering Hall, will have an observatory with…

Signs of spring poking up

In a sure sign that a change in the season is fast approaching, crocus emerge from a flower bed along…

2021 standards to prepare students for career or college

on different approaches based on paths they choose

Budgeting issues, high flows delay Durango Whitewater Park improvements

on two dangerous Animas rapids won’t come until after runoff season

School District 9-R denies Fort Lewis College request to synchronize schedules

Thomas “President Dene Thomas asked us to consider coordinating our spring break with theirs,” 9-R Superintendent Dan Snowberger told the…

Transit revenue likely to slide

councilors consider cuts, higher fares, fees

The Blotter

Monday 9:21 a.m. Someone tried to break into a business in the 700 block of East Second Avenue. 10 a.m.…

Gay conversion therapy questioned in Colorado Legislature

Lawmakers consider prohibiting controversial practice

Local Briefs

The Kiwanis Club of Durango welcomes Kathleen O’Connor, director of the Powerhouse Science Center, as guest speaker at noon Thursday…

Wednesday Durango Dayplanner

Free presentation about tenant rights, noon to 1 p.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 247-0266. Free introductory talk…

Property tax increase for airport likely November ballot question

county vote to come later

Durango property owners explore legal options over broken water pipes

looking into breaks and the response to them

Southwest Colorado homeless program receives HUD grant

Housing Solutions for the Southwest gets $139,910 to aid homeless families

Holiday seasonal sales, lodgers tax collections disappointing in Durango

Lodgers tax declines; sales tax growth lower than expected

Long-sought ATV bill in Colorado appears headed for approval

Senate committee latest to back bill allowing ATVs on roads

Firefighting costs eat into U.S. Forest Service budget for recreation

Sen. Gardner says cuts hurt Colorado’s outdoors industry

Towers of steel

Snowstorm leaves moderate avalanche danger in Colorado mountains

A successful shot with the vintage Howitzer by the Colorado Department of Transportation crew brings down snow above U.S. Highway…

Grand juries: What’s their proper role?

say they are a flawed tool easily manipulated by prosecutors

The Blotter

Monday 1:35 a.m. Two men were trying to open car doors near Clovis Drive and Delwood Avenue. Sunday 3:43 a.m.…

DA candidates look to county assemblies for answers

process draws fire from both Lammons and Champagne