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Dayplanner Saturday

Durango Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-noon, First National Bank parking lot, www.durangofarmersmarket.com. Durango Nature Studies’ Nature Center open, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.,…

Durango, La Plata County home sales strong

price in city $434K, in county $356K

Founder of ‘Aquí en El Valle’ newspaper dies at 79 in Phoenix

LaVerta Valdez-Johnson covered Four Corners Hispanic community

Local Briefs

The Bayfield Marshal’s Office will offer Prescription Drug Take-Back Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Bayfield…

Durango transit faces money shortage

City’s bus system needs long-term funding

The Blotter

Friday 3:11 a.m. A man was sitting on someone’s porch at Rivergate Lofts, 555 Rivergate Lane. Thursday 2:24 p.m. A…

Durango man arrested for pursuing 14-year-old girl

Martin works for Colo. Department of Corrections

Last days in low country

Western Slope water interests fear transmountain diversion

Conservation board director says plan does not prescribe policy

September DUI

The following are convictions made in September 2015 for driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent…

Mountain Middle School to use solar power

Dustin Mosiman, who donated his time, pushes wire through electric pipe while working on the Mountain Middle School building in…

Colorado’s U.S. senators back public lands bill

Bennet, Gardner stress conservation’s importance for state’s future generations

Truck, tandem bicyclists collide in Durango

A man is comforted by his wife Friday near 20th Street and West Second Avenue after they were hit by…

Colorado attorney general sues to block carbon-pollution standard

Environmentalists accuse Coffman of political games

The Blotter

Wednesday 9:23 a.m. Two people were rolled up in blankets sleeping under the 15th Street bridge. 3:30 p.m. A couch…

Campaign seeks funding for immigrants’ licenses

Advocates say self-funding program aids safety on the roads

Teeing off on new greens at Hillcrest Golf Club

Renovations are the first since 1979

The rainy-day rush

A woman races along College Drive on Thursday afternoon during a passing storm that dropped hail and rain. A winter…

Dayplanner Friday

Durango Early Bird Toastmasters meeting, 7-8:30 a.m., Holiday Inn, 21636 U.S. Highway 160 West, September-May, 749-1741, [email protected], www.earlybirdtoastmasters.org. Sunrise yoga…

Local Briefs

The Durango Transit Center parking lot will be closed on Monday and Tuesday as the city repaves part of the…

Independent report blames EPA for Gold King spill

Incident could have been prevented but plagued by errors

Mining reclamation requires funding

Water flows out of the American Tunnel in the Gladstone area north of Silverton where the Animas River Stakeholders Group…

Emergency fund needs to raise $1,000 to help those harmed by Gold King Mine spill

Wrinkle The Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado is administering the Community Emergency Relief Fund in collaboration with the Durango Business…

‘Game of Thrones’ actor Jason Momoa visits Durango

Momoa The 6-foot-4-inch-tall Hawaiian-born Momoa played Ronan Dex on “Stargate Atlantis” and the Dothraki King Khal Drogo on the popular…