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Feds restrict vehicle access at Navajo State Park

Visitors can still walk to the water in that area and can continue to hand-launch water craft there. Parking is…

Friday Durango Dayplanner

Four Corners Folk Festival, 2 p.m., Reservoir Hill Park, Hot Springs Blvd., Pagosa Springs, www.folkwest.com/fcfftickets. Opening Reception – Journeys: Jane…

Marijuana contributed to 2014 plane crash in Durango

Earley of Durango tested positive for THC

ATM robbery suspect chooses jury trial

Maurice Anderson, 31, declined a five-year prison sentence

Explosion rocks SpaceX launch pad in Florida during test

Smoke rises from a SpaceX launch site Thursday at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA said SpaceX was conducting a test firing…

Florida braces for ‘life-threatening’ Hurricane Hermine

expected to blow ashore late Thursday or early Friday

State tests: Math results alarming, 9-R superintendent says

only one indicator of students’ learning

Most jail inmates have the right to vote, but few do

Inmates in the La Plata County Jail are eligible to vote if they have not been convicted of a felony.Cliff…

ACT scores show many graduates not ready for college-level work

graduates are unprepared for college-level work

Photo: Rollover crash

Americans ‘thriving’ under Obama, poll finds

A new Gallup poll shows more Americans are feeling better about their lives now than just before President Barack Obama…

Enrollment increases, so do some class sizes

“A couple of class sizes are troubling,” said Dan Snowberger, 9-R superintendent, to the board Wednesday night. “Fort Lewis Mesa…

Five arrested in check forgery ring

Suspects receive felony charges

Obama links conservation to climate change

A man walks through a banner held by protesters during a speech by President Barack Obama at the 20th Anniversary…

Gun sale ban to marijuana card holders upheld

raises risk of ‘irrational’ behavior

Nation & World Briefs

Rousseffdu1-i-syn AUGUSTA, Maine – Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday he intends to seek “spiritual guidance” in hopes of quieting…

Here come the choppers for the Four Corners Motorcycle Rally

Everthing from hot buns contest to veterans’ fundraisers

Lightning strike kills 323 reindeer in Norway

More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in central Norway. The Norwegian Environment Agency has released eerie…

Traffic light down at 32nd and Main Avenue

will be fixing the light before nightfall

Trump’s state campaign says immigration stance unchanged

Republican candidate travels to Mexico; Democrats aren’t buying the ‘stunt’

Thursday Durango Dayplanner

Lunchtime acoustic cafe, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Smiley Building, 1309 East Third Ave. First Thursdays Art Walk, 5-7 p.m., participating galleries,…

Durango police seek public’s help in finding assailant

treated for head, face injuries

Bear euthanized after killing miniature horse

bear euthanized this summer in otherwise quiet season

Former Fort Lewis College football player sentenced in killing

for Ogsbury-Jones feared his former roommate