News

Snowpack low across region

Juan Mountain basins are at 66 percent of average

February 5, 2015

Jordan launches new airstrikes after vowing harsh war on IS

Jordanian Air Force fighter jets fly over the funeral of slain Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh at his home village…

February 5, 2015

Local News

Local Briefs

The Durango FFA Chapter will have a fundraiser from 6 p.m. to midnight Feb. 14 at the Breen Community Building…

February 5, 2015

Local News

Dayplanner Friday

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.…

February 5, 2015

Local News

The Blotter

Thursday 1:28 a.m. Someone reportedly knocked over several metal trash cans onto parked cars at the Irish Embassy Pub, 900…

February 5, 2015

Local News

Grants to help area students study local air pollution

Marci Demming-Bidwell, director of Mountain Studies Institute, plants plugs of grass near Ophir Pass. The institute recently received a grant…

February 5, 2015

Local News

Effort to reduce background check wait times fails

Democrats say Republicans are restricting access to firearms

February 5, 2015

Local News

Steamworks Half nearing cap

Runners take off at the start of the 2014 Steamworks Half Marathon on East Animas Road (County Road 250).JERRY McBRIDE/Durango…

February 5, 2015

Local News

Weather made for walking with mom

Ezekeil Rojas, 2, enjoys a stroll across the pedestrian bridge over the Animas River on Thursday afternoon with his mother,…

February 5, 2015

Local News

Mercy ER reopens after gun scare

A woman looks out of the door from Mercy Regional Medical Center’s emergency room on Thursday afternoon as law enforcement…

February 5, 2015

Local News

Gift cards to be given out as ‘acts of kindness’

Anthony Smalls received a surprise gift card from Tim Walsworth, executive director of the Durango Business Improvement District, last year.…

February 5, 2015

Local News

Disaster designation issued for S.W. Colo. counties

Farmers and ranchers have eight months to file

February 4, 2015

Nation & World

France takes aim at drone threat

Companies asked to develop systems to intercept aircraft

February 4, 2015

Nation & World

GOP group to unveil health-care proposal

would offer tax credits to buy insurance

February 4, 2015

Nation & World

Pilot’s slaying sparks rage in Mideast

Clerics call burning of prisoner ‘foreign’ to Islam

February 4, 2015

Nation & World

World Briefs

CAIRO – An Egyptian court sentenced 230 people, including one of the leading activists behind the country’s 2011 uprising, to…

February 4, 2015

Nation & World

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – Republicans and Democrats pressed senior Obama administration officials Wednesday to move swiftly to provide aircraft parts, night-vision equipment…

February 4, 2015

Nation & World

FCC chief backs ‘net neutrality’

to vote on rules this month

February 4, 2015

Local News

Kinder Morgan wins $2M tax case

Montezuma County considers appeal to state Supreme Court

February 4, 2015

Local News

Will that be cash, credit or love?

Cars move through the drive-thru window at a McDonald’s in Springfield, Ill. The fast-food chain is offering random customers a…

February 4, 2015

Local News

Transgender bill shot down

Republican joins Democrats to kill measure

February 4, 2015

Good Earth

Earth Briefs

The San Juan Mountains Association will present “Trees, Trees, Trees” from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Participants will learn about…

February 4, 2015

Good Earth

Values vs. facts

divide between what public, scientists think

February 4, 2015

Good Earth

Protect one species, damage another?

to restore entire ecosystem’s balance than one of its components

February 4, 2015