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All aboard the Hummus Bus: Former FLC student converts van from home to restaurant

Yet if all goes according to plan for the former Fort Lewis College student, that’s exactly what’s about to happen.…

April 26, 2016

Local News

9-R School board to ask voters for a $1.7 M tax hike

10-year loan with Bank of San Juans for stadium OK’d

April 25, 2016

Local News

Budget rental car services closes in Durango

Budget rental car services closed suddenly last week. A sign posted on its front door in the Walmart shopping center…

April 25, 2016

Local News

County mulls limits on temporary permits

Railroad’s summer events revives conversation on temporary use

April 25, 2016

Local News

Durango High School introduces candidates for activities director

Community questions experience, attitudes about discipline, fundraising

April 25, 2016

Local News

Black students unite at Fort Lewis College

group supports minorities, promotes diversity

April 25, 2016

Regional News

Decades after Chernobyl, another chance for a Paralympian

Paralympian Oksana Masters prepares her hand-cycle during training at the Olympic Training Center, in Colorado Springs. Masters was adopted out…

April 25, 2016

Regional News

Colorado vaccine database proposal falls

State’s vaccination rates among the nation’s lowest

April 25, 2016

Local News

Bill to eliminate Columbus Day sinks

Lawmakers hear emotional testimony

April 25, 2016

Regional News

Baker must serve same-sex couple

Religious convictions don’t grant business owners right to discriminate against gays

April 25, 2016

Local News

The Blotter

Sunday 8:28 p.m. A drunken man was screaming at people in the 600 block of Main Avenue. Saturday 6:29 a.m.…

April 25, 2016

Local News

Jon Keyser’s U.S. Senate bid fails to make primary ballot

Campaign will protest shocking ruling

April 25, 2016

Business

U.S. new-home sales fall in March for third straight month

A “sold” sign sits in front of a house under the final stages of construction in Plano, Texas.LM Otero/Associated Press…

April 25, 2016

Local News

State lawmakers debate funding a presidential primary

Measure would allow unaffiliated electors to participate

April 25, 2016

Nation & World

At ‘campaign crossroads,’ rivals defend anti-Trump pact

Trump, the Republican front-runner, lashed out at what he called collusion by desperate rivals, intensifying his attacks on the GOP…

April 25, 2016

Nation & World

Nation & World Briefs

The city of Cleveland will pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the relatives of Tamir Rice, a…

April 25, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

The Silver San Juan Division of the National Model Railroad Association will hold a spring public event at 8:30 a.m.…

April 25, 2016

Local News

No one injured when school bus rear-ended on U.S. Highway 160

lane closure quickly cleared after Monday afternoon

April 25, 2016

Local News

Tuesday Durango Dayplanner

Durango High School boys baseball vs. Bayfield, 4 p.m., DHS. Meetings and Events Master’s Men Ministries of Colorado meeting, 6:30…

April 25, 2016

Local News

Serving up a Steamworks remodel

Workmen with Durango Plastering and Drywall prepare and apply stucco to the exterior of Steamworks Brewing Co., 801 E. Second…

April 25, 2016

Local News

Health officials remind residents of rabies risk

weather means rodents are more active

April 25, 2016

Local News

Registered sex offender returns to La Plata County

Vollert will be considered homeless until he finds a place to live

April 25, 2016

Nation & World

Pentagon, Congress at odds over bases

Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work says it “does not make sense” for the military to spend excess dollars on…

April 25, 2016

Nation & World

Obama says new U.S. troops in Syria will be essential

The deployment will bring the number of personnel to roughly 300, up from about 50 special operations forces currently in…

April 25, 2016