Local News

9-R Board of Education confronting money woes

Supreme Court lowering standards also causes concerns

City’s expenses rising

Transit services budget is not sustainable

The Blotter

Monday 5:16 p.m. A window was broken out of a car behind the Durango Mall, 800 South Camino del Rio.…

King Coal Mine seeks county’s OK

operating for years without permit, La Plata County commissioners will finally hear request Oct. 8

Prescribed burn east of Bayfield complete

A helicopter was loaded this morning with a plastics sphere dispenser system to conduct at aerial burn in the Yellow…

Dayplanner Wednesday

Kiwanis of the Narrow Gauge meeting, 6:45-7:30 a.m., Carver Brewing Co., 1022 Main Ave., 375-0079. The Colorado State Patrol open…

Assistant prosecutor to seek top spot

Christian Champagne will run for district attorney in 2016

Local Briefs

A six-week senior dog class will begin Oct. 1. The class will be taught by Marianne McClain, a certified veterinary…

City Parks and Rec nationally accredited

Taylor Dean, 7, gets a workout on the indoor climbing wall at the Durango Community Recreation Center. The city’s Parks…

Open Space Conservancy hands out annual awards

Metz Resident Lynndee Beller, who has been involved with the group for years, received the “Volunteer of the Year” award.…

Color me faithful

Fleeting summer

32nd Street drainage project moving forward

would help cleanse runoff before it hits the Animas River

No endangered listing for the greater sage-grouse

make announcement in Colorado

Morning fender bender

Southbound traffic on north Main Avenue was reduced to one lane after a crash about 8 a.m. Tuesday morning in…

Monthly Animas meeting moves downstream

River Stakeholders Group meets in Durango for the first time in two years

Some customers in Bayfield could be without power

on scene where car hit junction box

Microclimate

Natalie Hardin, 2, daughter of Jessika and Gary Hardin of Boulder, strikes a pose and cools down Monday over the…

Construction industry facing labor shortage

Construction workforce faces labor shortage; housing prices become increasingly expensive

Chef Safari takes over Manna Soup Kitchen starting January

oversee Culinary Arts Program

Pinwheels for peace

Park Elementary School student Ryver Furnas watches a pinwheel spin with messages of peace created by his classmates. The pinwheels…

Nonprofit pursues consensus on big issues

a Better Colorado to visit 30-40 cities to hold community forums

Durango’s Carrie Whitley honored for tourism efforts

Whitley Whitley has led the sales team at Durango’s premier attraction, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, for the…

Local Briefs

The 2015 Durango Area Parade of Homes will kick off Friday and continue through Sunday, featuring 15 area homes and…