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Local News

La Plata County program offers hand-up from homelessness

Transitional housing program puts parents on path to financial independence

March 19, 2016

Local News

Highways in Southwest Colorado aging, state works to raise funds

88 percent of regional highways have just 10 years of life left

March 19, 2016

Local News

Option for opening Oxbow Preserve in Durango floated

Perimeter trail could open, interior would remain permanently closed

March 19, 2016

Local News

Healing walk

Kenny Frost, center, and Raymond Frost Jr., right, lead about 70 people who participated in the Healing Spirits Memorial Walk…

March 19, 2016

Local News

Sunday Durango Dayplanner

Fort Lewis College Softball vs. Aspen Mines, 10 a.m., Aspen Fields. Fort Lewis College Softball vs. N.M. Highlands, 1 p.m.,…

March 19, 2016

Local News

Local Briefs

The Home Builders Association of Southwest Colorado will offer EPA Lead-Safe initial and refresher courses from 8 a.m. to 5…

March 19, 2016

Regional News

A home away from home

Assimilation is a long process for Somalis in Colorado farm town

March 19, 2016

Nation & World

3 foreigners among 5 killed in Istanbul bomb attack

or Kurdish militants suspected

March 19, 2016

Nation & World

Prosecutor: Suspect backed out of being Paris suicide bomber

Abdeslam fighting extradition to France

March 19, 2016

Nation & World

Anti-Trump protesters block traffic in Arizona, march in New York

in Fountain Hills goes on as scheduled

March 19, 2016

Nation & World

Heavy winds blamed for plane crash in Russia

62 on board killed

March 19, 2016

Nation & World

What’s on tap in Minneapolis?

out it’s free water and a conversation

March 19, 2016

Local News

Durango School District staff pushes for stadium renovation

District will seek loan to pay for new track, turf at high school

March 18, 2016

Nation & World

Los Angeles skyscraper plunge investigated as suicide

plunged to death second day on construction job

March 18, 2016

Nation & World

Franciscan friars arraigned in child endangerment case

are charged with allowing sexual predator to remain employed for years

March 18, 2016

Nation & World

Election Briefs

NEW YORK – Police and the FBI are investigating a threatening letter sent to the Manhattan apartment of Donald Trump’s…

March 18, 2016

Nation & World

Hillary Clinton faces challenge: Black voters in Rust Belt

could make her vulnerable in Wisconsin

March 18, 2016

Nation & World

U.S., Philippines agree on locations covered by defense pact

faces disputed islands in South China Sea

March 18, 2016

Nation & World

Fourteen at nuke base probed for illegal drug activity

in Wyoming houses 90th Missile Wing

March 18, 2016

Nation & World

Nation Briefs

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A jury sided with ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and awarded him $115 million in his sex…

March 18, 2016

Regional News

New Mexico college seeks immigrant students in U.S. illegally

uses social media for recruitment

March 18, 2016

Local News

Saturday Durango Dayplanner

“ACTING: Inside Out/Outside In – The Feedback Loop,” 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, www. DurangoArts.org/performing-adults. Donny Johnson,…

March 18, 2016

Regional News

Pueblo leads state in per-capita homicide rate

Leaders worry city’s rising violence could keep new businesses away

March 18, 2016

Science

Scientists still don’t know how dogs became dogs – but they might be close to finding out

Inna Caruso, left, and Jordan Massey jog along the Rails to Trails with dogs Mac and Nessie on a warm…

March 18, 2016