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New images reveal seaplane that sank at Pearl Harbor

There were an estimated six of these sea planes in the bay at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack.University…

Dayplanner Saturday

St. Columba Christmas Bazaar, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Columba Parish, 1801 East Third Ave., 247-0044. Animas Museum’s annual Old Fashioned…

Fort Lewis College sees dramatic increase in applicants

College’s trustees discuss investing, potential cuts

30 years later, two Durango murders remain unsolved

Tyler and Dennis Sleater were slain a month apart

The Blotter

Friday 1:09 a.m. Two people vandalized a house and were running on 12th Street toward East Fifth Avenue. Police made…

Research shows we may be consuming water faster than we thought

suggests we may be consuming it at unsustainable rate

Local Briefs

La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith will speak to the Rotary Club of Durango at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the…

Bennet lauds progress on education bill

K-12 legislation passes House, on its way to Senate

Kids making oral history with StoryCorps project

The Great Thanksgiving Listen was conceived by leaders of the nonprofit oral history project StoryCorps. They encouraged kids to send…

Justices take up meaning of ‘one person, one vote’

Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, says a legal challenge to the way…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – A five-year, $305 billion bill to address the nation’s aging and congested transportation systems was signed into law…

Two suspects sought in Paris attacks

countries to share air passenger travel data

World Briefs

KABUL, Afghanistan – A joint Afghan-U.S. special forces operation has freed at least 40 Afghan prisoners from a Taliban prison…

OPEC nations opt to reject cutting their oil production

An attempt to nudge the cost of oil higher would have involved lowering output, thereby reducing supply and driving demand…

Trump hired felon as business adviser

Candidate says he’s ‘not that familiar with him’

Clinton: Killings show need for intelligence sharing

The former Secretary of State said in Iowa that the massacre that left 14 dead and many more injured in…

16 killed after group firebombs Cairo club

Egyptian police are searching for six suspects believed to have firebombed the El Sayad restaurant in Cairo on Friday. Sixteen…

Health officials seek new route for birth-control funds

Successful LARC program failed to receive support during 2015 legislative session

Christmas Tree Train delivers

’Tis the season for mailbox theft in La Plata County

A mailbox in the shape of a fish with its mouth open is on East Fourth Avenue. During the holiday…

Registration for Iron Horse Bicycle Classic opens

La Plata County to vote on $70M budget

Staff, commissioners reviewed several major changes Friday

Free salmon to be given away today at Lake Nighthorse

Kokanee salmon swim in a fish trap at Lake Nighthorse southwest of Durango. Colorado Parks and Wildlife will give away…

U.S. adds healthy 211K jobs; unemployment steady at low 5 percent

Retailers added nearly 31,000 jobs in November, helping to keep the national unemployment rate at 5 percent for the month.…