News

Mancos school district adopts truancy policy

reveals disrespect was most common offense

Wooden Canvas Project wins Caroline Bancroft History Project Award

Canvas project preserves legacy of Hispano arborglyphs

Sunday Durango Dayplanner

Irish music jam session, 12:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub.com. Informal tango practice and instruction, 5-7…

Local Briefs

La Plata Quilters Guild will meet for a presentation by award-winning quilter Barb Morgan on “30 Tips, Tricks and Techniques…

2 remaining escaped inmates arrested in San Francisco

broke out of California jail on Jan. 22

Analysis Will GOP establishment win out in the end?

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump holds depictions of himself on “The Simpsons” and a photo with boxer Mike Tyson, given…

Doggie Olympics

After seven attempts, team finds Silver Bullet

Admittedly, many Snowdown challenges don’t require much skill. It takes, however, a riddle-solver and treasure hunter to find the Silver…

Snowdown Light Parade 2016

Celebrating the “Back to the ’80s” theme, some floats and costumes drew inspiration from movies like “Ghostbusters” and “Rocky.” Others…

New Mexico revises teacher evaluation system

Education Secretary Hanna Skandera told The Associated Press on Friday that the revisions will streamline the system and will likely…

Saturday DUrango Dayplanner

Free wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., The Wine Merchant, 1514 Main Ave., 375-0076. Arts and Entertainment The Met: Live in HD…

Hunt for treasure hunter now burdens Santa Fe man

Forrest Fenn has been flying out in chartered helicopters or planes, searching remote stretches of the upper Rio Grande for…

N.M. identification debate moves to Democratic Senate

Immigrant advocates held a rally outside the New Mexico statehouse this week to oppose a GOP-sponsored proposal that would make…

Deer crossing on East Third Avenue

Deer in Durango certainly have become accustomed to city living. On Thursday evening, this group calmly used a crosswalk on…

The Blotter

Thursday 11:54 a.m. A woman was screaming profanities at a 4-year-old boy at a trolley stop in the east 100…

Local Briefs

The Man to Man Prostate Cancer Support Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the upstairs meeting room of…

Judge: Forest Service must provide more Wolf Creek documents

On Friday, a U.S. District Court judge ordered the Forest Service to provide more documents in response to a Freedom…

Durango may move forward with Superfund support letter

Durango wants voice heard on mine cleanup

Peace talks to end Syria fighting begin

Peace talks to try to end the five-year conflict in Syria began Friday in Geneva, Switzerland.Martial Trezzini/Keystone The opposition group,…

New Orleans gets ready to party for Mardi Gras

John Fitzhugh/Sun Herald<br><br>A reveler gets a strand of beads during the Krewe Unique Mardi Gras parade in Ocean Springs, Miss.…

World Briefs

British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, said “we are making progress” in negotiating reforms…

Iranian air drone buzzes U.S. carrier

releases video of naval incident

U.S. censors some of Clinton’s old emails

Candidate’s home server had ‘top secret’ messages

Nation Briefs

Duong SANTA ANA, Calif. – Police arrested one of three violent fugitive inmates on Friday after he told a woman…