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Conditions improve for Spring Creek Basin mustangs

Disappointment Valley’s Spring Creek Basin mustangs and range healthier

Fort Lewis College scores on Fulbright Scholars

ties with Naval Academy for the most this year

Caption This!: ‘A seedy photo’

This week’s photo was submitted by reader Julie Pickett, who raised her bird feeder shortly after this picture was taken.Courtesy…

Photo: A growing business

Will Smith with Fast Signs hangs a new sign for the Living Tree Live Foods and Salad Bar restaurant on…

FLC to host math festival for middle-schoolers

The American Institute of Mathematics will hold the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday in…

Downtown Durango sales set Christmas record

and gas may turn around in 2017

Winter expected to make a comeback

could leave 2 feet of new snow in high country

Skier who died at Purgatory Resort is identified

34-year-old woman struck tree while skiing

Voters switch it up in La Plata County

Residents cite disgust, evolving views for changing political affiliation in 2016

Photo: Brain Games

Discounted horticulture conference tickets offered until March 9

Participants will have the opportunity to meet nationally recognized horticulture professionals and learn about horticultural topics, such as alpine gardening,…

Registration for spring and summer youth baseball now open

Boys and girls ages 4 to 14 are invited to participate in baseball programs according to their age group. Divisions…

LPEA board election packets available Mar. 6

To be placed on the ballot, candidates must return completed petitions to either LPEA office by 1 p.m. on Wednesday,…

Woman dies after crashing into tree at Purgatory

U.S. Highway 550 closed briefly for helicopter landing

ACLU brings ‘road show’ to Durango

liberties group keeps fight alive for reproductive rights

Animas Valley landowners seek rezoning to build duplexes

units planned for parcel behind Hermosa Creek Grill

Marriott hotel construction to start this spring near Durango Mall

100-unit building may be finished in a year

EPA lays out plan for summer work at Superfund site

hopes to begin smaller remediation projects

Arizona man bites firefighter on scene of rollover crash

Suspect charged with assault, obstructing law enforcement

State lawmakers say marijuana is not responsible for opioid crisis

Lawmakers say connection is erroneous

ACLU to host reproductive health discussion

du1-i-syn Denise Maes, ACLU public policy director, will give a presentation on the current landscape for reproductive rights in the…

Ignacio library to begin 8-week family reading program

du1-i-syn Participants will share a meal and explore ways to enrich reading experiences together. Children will engage in crafts, music…

Durango Botanical Society is seeking docents

JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald filedu1-i-syn Docents at the botanical society learn and teach about plants specific to the area and maintain…

Photos: Winter bicycling celebrated in Durango

A bicyclist rides along Main Avenue on Friday after stopping in front of Studio & for the city of Durango’s…