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Fund created to help local fight cancer

Cameron has spent a lifetime helping others

January 27, 2015

Local News

Terminally ill offered ‘Death with Dignity’

Measure would allow Coloradans to end their lives

January 27, 2015

Local News

Tipton to visit Durango Thursday

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, will visit Durango and Cortez on Thursday.Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file photo Tipton, R-Cortez, will meet…

January 27, 2015

Local News

County gives lukewarm forecast in annual address

Long-term decline in property-taxes imperils finances

January 27, 2015

Nation & World

Blizzard shows no mercy on Boston; New York gets off easy

Michael Dwyer/Associated Press<br><br>Lynn Leary on Tuesday walks past houses damaged by ocean waves during a winter storm in Marshfield, Mass.…

January 27, 2015

Nation & World

Drone operator is government intelligence employee

Members of the Secret Service search the grounds of the North Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday.…

January 27, 2015

Local News

Durango alley to close for work

A dog crosses a snow-covered alley between Main Avenue and East Second Avenue near Ninth Street.SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald file photo…

January 27, 2015

Local News

San Juan County treasurer retires

Rich served community for 24 years

January 27, 2015

Local News

Ice-fishing tourney planned at Vallecito

Ben Zimmerman of Bayfield ice fishes on Vallecito Reservoir in 2013. An ice-fishing tournament will be held on the reservoir…

January 27, 2015

Local News

King Coal promises to control trucks

promises to cut Sunday hauling, monitor speeds

January 26, 2015

Local News

2015 Steampunk Snowdown Schedule

All week Snowdown Theme contest, through noon Sunday, Magpie’s Newsstand Cafe, 707 Main Ave., 382-0518. Snowdown Search for “The Silver…

January 26, 2015

Local News

The Blotter

Monday 9:12 p.m. A car parked in front of the Main Event was playing music loudly at 42 Florida Road.…

January 26, 2015

Local News

First tubers of the year stay ‘toasty’

Unless you’re Jennifer Murphy. “In 2009, I had tubed on a river in Vermont,” Murphy said, “and last year I…

January 26, 2015

Regional News

Mormon leaders call for measures protecting gay rights

religious freedoms be trampled?

January 26, 2015

Local News

Kiddo kryptonite

instructor instills self-control, confidence

January 26, 2015

Nation & World

World Brief

MOSCOW – A defiant President Vladimir Putin on Monday called the Ukrainian army a “NATO foreign legion,” reflecting his readiness…

January 26, 2015

Nation & World

U.S. drones strike targets in Yemen

Officials hope to continue counter-terrorism efforts

January 26, 2015

Nation & World

Greek prime minister forms new government

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, center, accompanied by members of his party leaves the Presidential Palace, has formed a new…

January 26, 2015

Nation & World

Monster storm heads east

snow, high winds could paralyze Northeast

January 26, 2015

Nation & World

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – A 2-foot-long drone apparently flown by a hobbyist crashed on the White House grounds Monday in an extraordinary,…

January 26, 2015

Local News

FLC works to increase enrollment

Direct-mailing firm attracts 600 applicants in 3 weeks

January 26, 2015

Local News

Councilors ask for consistent accessory-unit laws

Neighborhood association raises concerns

January 26, 2015

Local News

Man arrested in two burglaries

Sheriff’s Office helped by residents

January 26, 2015

Local News

Monday was warm, but it wasn’t record warm

It was the warmest temperature recorded for the date at the airport in observations dating to 1996. The airport recorded…

January 26, 2015