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Creative destruction

Jason Noonan, with S & S Construction of Durango, operates a backhoe as he helps demolish the former 2nd Avenue…

November 4, 2015

Local News

An artful way to keep your place

Courtesy of the Durango Friends of the Library, bookmarks designed by area students will be given away at the Durango…

November 4, 2015

Local News

Rodent’s nest sparks car fire on Hwy. 160

rat survives blaze; 1998 Jeep doesn’t

November 4, 2015

Local News

Wet flakes

The first real snow in Durango came Wednesday afternoon. And pedestrians scurried with more purpose to avoid a soaking from…

November 4, 2015

Local News

Local Briefs

The La Plata Living Wage Coalition will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the board room located on the first…

November 4, 2015

Local News

Audit: Southwest Colorado has been lagging ‘way behind’ on recycling waste

counties drastically trailing both state’s and country’s rates

November 4, 2015

Local News

Al Roker to broadcast live from Four Corners Monument on Nov. 9

‘TODAY’ host attempts fastest weather forecast

November 4, 2015

Local News

Dayplanner Thursday

La Plata County Commissioner Julie Westendorff will hold office hours, 10 a.m.-noon, Pine River Library Conference Room, 395 Bayfield Center…

November 4, 2015

Local News

Ethics board addresses Durango city councilors’ queries

Concerns include issues of familial ties, and the art of political persuasion

November 4, 2015

Local News

Water rule hits choppy water

moves to eliminate EPA rule

November 4, 2015

Nation & World

Heroin, prescription pain pills top drug threat in the U.S.

Used heroin syringes are stored in a water bottle in Combs Park in Hamilton, Ohio. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s new…

November 4, 2015

Nation & World

Survey: Half of black millennials know of police violence

Protesters mark the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed by Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.…

November 4, 2015

Local News

Drop off your pumpkins Monday in Durango

Pumpkins can be discarded Monday at the over-flow lot at Santa Rita Park.Steve Lewis/Durango Herald file photo Rather than leave…

November 4, 2015

Local News

‘Wi-Fi tended to create ‘1984’ feel’

wants people to talk to each other

November 3, 2015

Nation & World

Official: Missile strike on plane discounted

Mourners are continuing to come to St. Petersburg’s airport and Dvortsovaya Square to lay flowers and light candles for the…

November 3, 2015

Regional News

GOP eyes Utah driver’s license model for New Mexico

Immigrant advocates rally at the New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe to protest a proposal aimed at repealing the…

November 3, 2015

Local News

La Plata County voters support leasing Internet lines

Measure gets wide support

November 3, 2015

Regional News

Jefferson County voters boot out conservative school board members

Supporters for the Jefferson County Recall vote gather in the main ballroom at the Sheraton Denver West hotel on in…

November 3, 2015

Local News

Bayfield approves 1-cent sales tax increase for roads

asked voters for a third time

November 3, 2015

Local News

Matt Sheldon wins 9-R board seat; swearing in will be Tuesday

57% of vote of Brieanne Stahnke

November 3, 2015

Local News

Voters reject mill levy increase

Measure fails by narrow 4%

November 3, 2015

Local News

City voters approve bond for sewer plant

Rita plant to be remodeled

November 3, 2015

Nation & World

Delay of pipeline raising questions

Company denies it hopes GOP will win White House

November 3, 2015

Nation & World

GOP captures statehouses

votes down legal pot measure

November 3, 2015