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Highway 550 reopens following rollover

U.S. Highway 550 reopened about 4:40 p.m. Thursday after a rollover crash north of Coal Bank Pass.Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file…

June 2, 2016

Local News

Friday Durango dayplanner

Community Health Action Coalition meeting, 8-9:30 a.m., Sunlight Room, Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave., 799-0218. Sunrise yoga adult…

June 2, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

The city of Durango will host a community open house on the wastewater treatment plant design from 4:30 to 6…

June 2, 2016

Local News

The Blotter

Wednesday 11:45 a.m. Graffiti was reported on the bridge at Iris Park, 1235 Camino del Rio, on the west side…

June 2, 2016

Local News

Effort seeks to make it more difficult to amend Colorado Constitution

ballot campaign stops in Durango on Thursday

June 2, 2016

Regional News

Pilot ejects before Thunderbird crash

part of Air Force commencement ceremony

June 2, 2016

Local News

Rural Colorado hospitals fear veto of mental health bill

address legal conflict over holding patients

June 2, 2016

Local News

Itâ€™s official: Dolores River boating season launches Friday

rafts, kayaks could get a week

June 2, 2016

Local News

Residence Inn briefly evacuates for electrical fire

The fire occurred around 9:45 a.m. General manager David Smyth said employees and visitors were back in the building before…

June 2, 2016

Local News

Cortez man gets deferred sentence in Halloween stabbing

orders substance-abuse evaluation

June 2, 2016

Education

Durango’s multitude of camps can combat ‘summer slide’

Reading, arts, science, more keep kids active, engaged

June 2, 2016

Nation & World

Obama warns against isolationism’s ‘false comfort’

Obama used his final commencement address as president to reassure the military that it remains the dominant fighting force in…

June 2, 2016

Nation & World

UCLA shooter’s ‘kill list’ had wife, 2 profs on it

Authorities think shooter unable to find other professor targeted

June 2, 2016

Local News

Support begins to coalesce for Durango schools tax increase

Max: ‘Remember it’s a political campaign’

June 1, 2016

Local News

Experienced hands pass on river-running knowledge

Recent graduates from Flagstaff looking for summer work. A family who just scored a permit to raft the Grand Canyon…

June 1, 2016

Local News

Durango-La Plata County Airport looks at management options

City, county hear pitch on new airport governing structure

June 1, 2016

Local News

Photo: Grandma powered

Becky Shipp pulls her granddaughters, 3-year-old Stella Shipp and 11-month-old Kendall Shipp, along East Second Avenue Wednesday, enjoying the last…

June 1, 2016

Local News

Durango High School activities director, Sunnyside principal hired

administrators start July 1 along with new transportation director

June 1, 2016

Good Earth

Good Earth Briefs

Archaeologist Grant Coffey will give a presentation called “Creating Symmetry: Building Social Landscapes in the Central Mesa Verde Region,” at…

June 1, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

CINCINNATI – Confusion and panic set in after a 3-year-old boy plunged into the Cincinnati Zoo’s gorilla exhibit, according to…

June 1, 2016

Nation & World

$12 billion tunnel under the Alps sets record

17-year Swiss project will ease traffic, cut pollution in Europe

June 1, 2016

Nation & World

Children’s asylum rates vary by region

Attorneys say process shouldn’t be ‘crapshoot’

June 1, 2016

Local News

La Plata County commissioners OK King II coal mine permit

Residents unhappy with truck travel conditions

June 1, 2016

Local News

The Blotter

Tuesday Firefighters and medics responded to 16 calls, including two calls – one at 2:01 p.m. and the second at…

June 1, 2016