News

Reading, ’riting’ and (financial) ’rithmetic

It’s not too early to teach kids about money

Pastels are always in fashion for homes

Designer Brian Patrick Flynn uses high-end performance fabrics in pastel tones to create a lounge he describes as “rock-and-roll pastels.”Sarah…

Few who lost homes will be buying soon

U.S. homeownership rate drops to two-decade low

1 in 4 renters using half their pay on housing

Although the Great Recession has ended, millions of Americans who are paying more than a third of their annual income…

Water rates to rise this summer

hopes to boost conservation

Who should foot this FLC tab?

Bipartisan support for tuition waiver act would secure education for Native American students

Nation Briefs

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Republicans making their pitch to be the party’s 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each other Saturday…

World Briefs

MONROVIA, Liberia – On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to imagine a time…

Remembering Mom by surprising moms for Mother’s Day

MacNiven and friends lend a helping hand

Littleton’s ‘Longhorn Bandit’ goes down shooting

agent is shot in the leg while serving the warrant in a Denver suburb

Just talking can be therapeutic

Colorado medical school links students, new immigrants

Dayplanner Sunday

Relay for Life will host a fundraiser Mother’s Day breakfast, 8-11:30 a.m., St. Columba Catholic Church, 1800 East Second Ave.…

Local Briefs

Southwest Colorado Coalition for Occupant Protection will offer Alive at 25 defensive-driving classes over the summer. Alive at 25 is…

Durango Farmers Market washed out Week 1

‘Fasten your seat belt’ for our springtime market season

A ‘close one’ on the Animas River

resuscitated after nearly drowning

Snowstorm causes delays on 160

Highway reopens after brief closure Saturday morning

Parachute sales-tax revenue plummets with gas downturn

The town of about 1,100 residents finds itself coping with the economic fallout of yet another slowdown in natural gas…

Dayplanner Saturday

Durango Bird Club May field trip, 7:30 a.m., Old Fort Lewis College campus in Hesperus. Durango Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon,…

Rocky soil stymies Smith Sports Complex

at FLC scheduled to open in 2016

Local Briefs

Because of an unforeseen circumstance, La Plata County Humane Society has canceled the annual meeting scheduled Saturday. The meeting will…

3 generations attend to O’Keeffe home, studio

Preservation of the historic adobe property has been the charge of Agapita Judy Lopez and her family for three generations.…

Weighing in for Sky Ute Fight Night

The Blotter

Friday 12:17 a.m. A resident in the 500 block of east Eighth Street was concerned about a neighbor yelling threats.…

Rural schools can design assessments

Measure allows for alternatives to Common Core