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Navajo farmers reject use of water

Joe Ben Jr., Shiprock Chapter House Farm Board representative, tests the water from tanks at the Chief Hill location in…

The Blotter

Saturday 1:02 a.m. A man and a woman were fighting, and a bouncer was being pushed in the 600 block…

The pursuit of happiness (ice cream)

Believing success starts with the first step forward, students, faculty and staff of Southwest Community College parade across Main Avenue…

Little Devil 100% percent contained

Wildfire expected to be controlled by month’s end

Juniper School contract set for Tuesday vote

Charter will apply for state grant if it receives approval from board

EPA: Contaminants near pre-spill levels

says it validated river samples collected in mid-August

Local Briefs

The local American Cancer Society needs volunteers who are interested in working with patients to arrange for services and goods…

Dayplanner Tuesday

Master’s Men Ministries of Colorado meeting, 6:30 a.m., DoubleTree Hotel Lounge, 501 Camino del Rio, 749-2888. DeColores Civitan Club meeting,…

3 taken to Mercy Hospital after rollover

ejected during crash on Forest Service Road 682

State of the skate

Changes at Durango Skate Park improve visibility, interest

Is a tough presidential decision ahead?

may have to decide who to back if Biden challenges Clinton

Hispanic Republicans credit Trump with forcing candidates’ hands

Hispanic Republicans may not agree with presidential candidate Donald Trump’s position on immigration, but they say his attention to the…

Local Briefs

A Yoga for Hikers workshop with certified Iyengar instructor Martha Evers will take place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday…

Hickenlooper says no long-term effects from Animas River sampling

Governor tours Ute Mountain Ute land Sunday in Towaoc

Dalen leaves with a legacy

Retired paramedic was a pioneer in Durango

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – In more than three decades of trying to breed pandas at the National Zoo, there’s been plenty of…

One-car rollover on Missionary Ridge Road

Three people were in the car, and the driver had serious injuries, he said. According to reports from the police…

Boaters mapping Pacific garbage arrive in San Francisco

ship carries massive white bags filled with plastic garbage

Less smoke could mean more fire in Washington state

Firefighter Dallas Barron pokes his firefighting tool into the charred ground as he searches for hot spots left from a…

Separate fires damage 2 homes in Vallecito, Bayfield

Vallecito home badly damaged; Bayfield home likely a total loss

Thousands of migrants head closer to EU from Macedonia

A family of migrants waits to board the train that will take them toward Serbia on Sunday at the new…

World Briefs

BEIRUT – Islamic State militants destroyed a temple at Syria’s ancient ruins of Palmyra, activists said Sunday, realizing the worst…

Operating from ‘gut’ 3 Americans prevent mass shooting

U.S. airman says train attacker ‘ready to fight to the end’

Spreading their wings