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Public asked help track Colorado wildlife

especially attractive to birdwatchers

Latino lawmakers look to USDA to address civil rights issues

U.S. reps. Michelle Lujan Grisham, left, and Ben Ray Lujan talk to reporters at the VA hospital in Albuquerque, N.M.…

Boulder, Colorado project seeks to help older LGBT adults

Kurt Sanford dances to the song YMCA during the Lavender Gala for LGBT elders at Nissi’s Bistro in Lafayette, Colo.…

The Durango Herald wins three national newspaper awards

recognized for design, editorial work

Local Briefs

Zumba with Donna Middleton will offer a free Zumba class at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Core Value Fitness Center, 208…

Dayplanner Sunday

Irish music jam session, 12:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave. Informal tango practice, 5-7 p.m., Groove U Durango,…

Shoppers in Durango embrace day after Christmas

saw steady business despite weather

Nation Briefs

NEW YORK – Mass shootings and attacks weighed heavily on the minds of Americans in 2015, according to a new…

Red Mountain Pass reopens Sunday afternoon as Durango digs out after four days of snow

A Colorado Department of Transportation snowplow works its way up north Main Avenue on U.S. Highway 550 Christmas Day in…

Editors choose Islamic State conflict as top news story of 2015

marriage ruling ranked No. 2

In final year, Obama seeks to stave off lame-duck status

President Barack Obama listens as Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during their bilateral meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation…

Watch now: Time lapse video of storm on Camino Del Rio

EPA wants toxic Nevada mine on Superfund list

Peggy Pauly, a minister’s wife from Yerrington, Nev., helped organize local efforts to demand additional cleanup work at an abandoned…

Region Briefs

CENTENNIAL – Authorities say someone stole a red Salvation Army kettle from a grocery store parking lot in suburban Denver…

Fort Lewis College receives $200,000 grant to help bolster engineering students

hopes funds will increase local students’ interest in field

Dayplanner Saturday

Black Velvet duo, 5:30-10:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150. Greg Ryder, 7-11 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main…

Pope urges Christmas prayers for peace

Pope Francis delivers his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and to the world) blessing from the central balcony of…

Alabama tornado adds to storm woes in South

storms expected in Mississippi

World Briefs

ABUJA, Nigeria – A gas tanker truck ignited an inferno at a crowded industrial gas plant in Nigeria on Thursday,…

16-year-old Aspen High School student solos her own flight

From left, Aspen High School students Juliette Woodrow, Ethan Burkley and Grace Ferguson pose in Aspen on Dec. 11. Ferguson…

Santa saved

Steven Macey, right, a Santa-for-hire from Orem, Utah, gives a big hug to firefighter Capt. Danny Campbell after fire crews…

Half of new demand for power in Colorado coming from grow operations

legal weed expands, grids becoming taxed

Police: Utah Student finds remains of 2010 shooting suspect

ranger shot nine times, lived

Festive spirit on display at Manna Soup Kitchen in Durango

Worshipers fill St. Columba on a snowy Christmas morning