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A six-week senior dog class will begin Oct. 1. The class will be taught by Marianne McClain, a certified veterinary…

City Parks and Rec nationally accredited

Taylor Dean, 7, gets a workout on the indoor climbing wall at the Durango Community Recreation Center. The city’s Parks…

Open Space Conservancy hands out annual awards

Metz Resident Lynndee Beller, who has been involved with the group for years, received the “Volunteer of the Year” award.…

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Fleeting summer

U.S. rental home prices rise at slower pace in August

A new report from Harvard University’s Joint Center on Housing Studies and the nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners reported that more…

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Obama greets pope as he lands in U.S.

Liberals hope he pushes climate policy

Price of Paradise

Sticker shock rattles young professionals in Roaring Fork Valley

32nd Street drainage project moving forward

would help cleanse runoff before it hits the Animas River

Peace is caring in action

Fifth-graders celebrate International Day of Peace with pinwheels, neighborhood visit

No endangered listing for the greater sage-grouse

make announcement in Colorado

Morning fender bender

Southbound traffic on north Main Avenue was reduced to one lane after a crash about 8 a.m. Tuesday morning in…

Monthly Animas meeting moves downstream

River Stakeholders Group meets in Durango for the first time in two years

Some customers in Bayfield could be without power

on scene where car hit junction box

Archaeologists may have found fabled tomb

Israel’s government Antiquities Authority said Monday that an ancient structure it began excavating this month on the side of a…

Microclimate

Natalie Hardin, 2, daughter of Jessika and Gary Hardin of Boulder, strikes a pose and cools down Monday over the…

State obesity rates hold steady

30% or more of population rated obese in 22 states

Firefighting shift focuses on sage grouse in West

Male sage grouse fight for the attention of a female southwest of Rawlins, Wyo. As one of the West’s worst…

Construction industry facing labor shortage

Construction workforce faces labor shortage; housing prices become increasingly expensive

Chef Safari takes over Manna Soup Kitchen starting January

oversee Culinary Arts Program

Supreme Court to decide if cities can ban fracking

The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Monday, to decide whether cities can ban hydraulic fracturing, stepping into a high-stakes battle…

State high court rebuffs school funding challenge

decided the state can slash total education budget if “per-pupil funding” increases

Wisconsin’s Walker exits ’16 race with harsh words for Trump

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced Monday he was suspending his Republican presidential campaign.Morry Gash/Assocaited Press “Today, I believe that I…