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Donated breast milk is helping newborns in Wyoming

Willow Creek Park offers rare adventures

Children get renaissance experience at summer camp

‘Doggies’ on Fiesta Days Parade

Grand Canyon biologist is searching for rare hog-nosed skunks

Grand Canyon National Park has documented hog-nosed skunk tracks and found signs of them burrowing for insects along the Colorado…

Battle over heli-skiing plan divides Silverton community

Sitting and standing shoulder-to-shoulder inside a small room in the county courthouse in Silverton, surrounded by historic wood-framed windows and…

Dayplanner Sunday

Irish music jam session, 12:30 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, www.theirishembassypub.com. The Assortment, 1-3 p.m., Trimble Hot…

Local Briefs

Four Corners Materials will continue street reconstruction and paving work from Monday to Friday. Work is scheduled for: Conejo Drive;…

Butane is suspected in dispensary explosion

The DEA is looking “into the process” that started the fire, Santa Fe Police Lt. Andrea Dobyns told The Associated…

The Blotter

Friday 2:43 a.m. A woman was stocking shelves who does not work at Walmart. Thursday 9:20 a.m. Smoke was coming…

Local Briefs

The High Noon Rotary Club of Durango will meet from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the DoubleTree Hotel,…

Montana wildfire foils tourists

Smoke from the Reynolds Creek Fire rises Tuesday above the landscape at St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park, Mont.…

Dayplanner Saturday

Free breakfast, 8-10 a.m., Florida Grange, 656 Colorado Highway 172. Durango Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon, First National Bank parking lot,…

Cutthroat making comeback

The fish, native to Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, is now found in only about 14 percent of its…

Managing the future of Hermosa Creek

Service evaluating campsites, trails, habitat

San Ignacio Fiesta hits 115 years and counting

The 2014 Fiesta Royalty will pass their crowns on to the new queen and attendants this weekend at the 115th…

FCC signs off on AT&T-DirecTV merger, creating pay-TV behemoth

The deal gives AT&T control of DirecTV’s 20.4 million customers and valuable programming, turning it into a media giant in…

Pluto incredibly hazy with flowing ice

NASA scientists say new photos from the New Horizons spacecraft are showing some “pretty mind-blowing discoveries” about Pluto, including a…

Texas jail death highlights frequency of inmate suicides

Autopsy results indicate that Sandra Bland hanged herself in this Waller County, Texas, jail cell with a plastic garbage bag.Pat…

Nation Briefs

DETROIT – Fiat Chrysler has decided to recall about 1.4 million cars and trucks in the U.S. just days after…

Gunman known as angry man

show host says theater shooter ‘had screw loose’

World Briefs

BUJUMBURA, Burundi – Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has won a third term in office, an electoral official announced Friday, amid…

New probe of Clinton emails sought

U.S. intelligence agencies fear classified data was compromised

Crisis takes toll on Greek shops

Thousands of businesses have closed

Turkey strikes IS targets in Syria

Erdogan Turkey, which spans the intersection of Europe and Asia and borders the Middle East, had long been reluctant to…