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World Briefs

BAGHDAD – Iraqi forces and pro-government militias have routed Islamic State fighters from two key areas near the city of…

Regional News

Weld oil production soars in 2014

Weld County’s 2014 oil production up 33 percent from the previous year and expanding to 85 percent of the state’s…

Swinging into spring

Shannon Smith, back, helps her daughter, Riley, 6, enjoy a Sunday morning at Schneider Park. Rileyâ€™s dad is Troy Smith.…

Fed report on Ferguson resonates across country

‘Why not here?’

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called Sunday on Hillary Clinton to “step up and come out” to explain in…

2 charged, 3 detained in killing

Russia’s opposition movement shaken

Local Briefs

The Southwest Colorado Genealogical Society will meet at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Animas Museum, 3065 West Second Ave. After…

History around Four Corners informs present

Archaeologist recounts 4,000-year saga of area’s ancient peoples

Dayplanner Monday

Sunrise Yoga, 7-8 a.m. and 8:15-9:15 a.m., Boys and Girls Club of La Plata County, 2750 Main Ave., $5, 259-0385.…

Both teams make Great 8!

astounds Eaton, IHS cruises to win

2014 residential real estate ends on high note

Sales, home prices up from same quarter in 2013

Construction picks back up, but it’s a different gig now

Construction workers David Rager, right, is back in the construction after seeing jobs dry up during the Great Recession. He…

The McMansion is back, and it’s bigger than ever

building

U.S. construction spending drops

Carpenter Joe Tominc cuts wood for a post on a home under construction in Pepper Pike, Ohio. The Commerce Department…

Housing Scene How to use gift money as a down payment

Lew Sichelman Sean Young, a loan officer with FirstCal Colorado in Greenwood Village, says that if you fail to accept…

Partial road closures planned for Florida Road and east 32nd St,

City crews will close the westbound, right-turn lane of east 32nd Street, just before north Main Avenue, starting Monday for…

Titan of science

Durango native Margaret Liu is ‘The Mother of DNA Vaccines’

Another ancient site destroyed

loots, wrecks 2,000-year-old Iraqi city

Clinton’s emails: Secrets, security and the law

are some answers to your questions

Hitting the throttle

Weekend of sledding, speeding and racing on Molas Pass