Local News

Out with Columbus, in with Indigenous Peoples Day?

Lewis College celebrates Real History of the Americas

Box, Plentyholes elected to Ute Mountain council

elected council member says members shouldn’t give up dreams

Phil’s World at heart of planning battle

Could that scene play out at Phil’s World biking park? The Bureau of Land Management-administered area could also be leased…

Montezuma panel to advise BLM on wells

Commissioners strongly oppose oil-and-gas master lease plan

Bottleneck city

Construction on 14th Street between Main Avenue and East Third Avenue has started as Atoms Gas replaces a gas main.…

Contractor named in second EPA mine spill

Different company than one blamed for Gold King Mine mishap

Local Briefs

Trails 2000 will host a public trail work day at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Overend Mountain Park. Volunteers should meet…

Dayplanner Tuesday

Master’s Men Ministries of Colorado meeting, 6:30 a.m., DoubleTree Hotel Lounge, 501 Camino del Rio, 749-2888. La Plata Quilters Guild…

La Plata County’s warm weather not expected to last

National Weather Service says this fall in ‘top five’ warmest

Print’s not dead in Durango

Magpies Newsstand holds its ground in online age

Nutritious and all natural

Sleeping Ute flower rebounds

first time since 1996, rare plant is no longer endangered

Durango High School band marching off to regionals

quadrupled under director’s leadership

Century-old Rico mines require ongoing monitoring

Officials unsure what’s happening in tunnels

Local Briefs

Internationally renowned artist Volkan Alkanoglu will visit Fort Lewis College on Monday. An anonymous donor is in discussions with Alkanoglu…

Dayplanner Monday

Four Corners Arts Forum, 9 a.m., KDUR 91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org. Happy Hour Yoga, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard…

Durango Friends of the Arts nonprofit may dissolve

Organization can’t fill key positions

Fort Lewis College works to hold on to students

Retention, graduation continue to be challenges

Dayplanner Sunday

Durango Double Road Race, 9 a.m., Animas Surgical Hospital, 575 Rivergate Lane, durangodouble.com/schedule. Gena Rych Memorial 5K, 9 a.m., Animas…

Local Briefs

Bethany McManus will teach “Introduction to Quickbooks” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Durango Public Library’s training…

Fantastic Octoberfest

Crate-diggers have their day

aficionados look to add to their record collections in Durango swap

Missouri man rescued from Weminuche Wilderness

from man’s campfire seen by air rescue team after 10 days

Ray Duncan, ski area founder, dies

Purgatory pioneer, vintner dies at 84