News

Lightning Safety Week concludes Sunday

Weather service: When thunder roars, go indoors

Community Concert Hall to host season kick-off party

The kick-off party is set for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1 at the Durango Welcome Center,…

Glow’s expands services, healing in new space

holding grand opening today, tomorrow

education announcements

WACO, Texas – Baylor University conferred degrees on more than 2,300 graduates during spring commencement exercises May 16-17. Katherine Walker…

April births at Mercy Regional Medical Center

Jenna & Carl Mullen, Bayfield, Harper Jade, 6lbs. 3oz, 8:46 p.m., April 4, 2014 Jennifer & Beau Moore, Ignacio, Paisley…

Community Concert Hall announces 2014-2015 season

Tickets go on sale July 1 at kickoff party

Christ the King Lutheran celebrating 50th anniversary

Events Saturday include a “Mile of Lutherans” hike from 2 to 3 p.m. on the Animas River Trail. An open…

Town of Bayfield preparing for 4th of July

Barb Luebchow

Austin Keith Potthoff

POTTHOFFdu1-i-syn Austin was born Nov. 24, 1995 in Durango. He grew up in and attended schools in Durango through ninth…

Southern Ute reservations starts fire restrictions

The tribe announced the fire restrictions on Monday. Stage I Fire Restrictions prohibits acts for the general public, commercial operators…

Calendar of Events

Pine River Historical Society Museum, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, corner of Mill and Pearl in downtown Bayfield. Southern…

Bayfield 4th of July – it’s all on the 4th

Vallecito fireworks slated for Saturday

Live music offered Friday nights at Fox Fire Farms

Robby Overfield plays tonight, with Tim Guidotti set to perform Friday, July 4. Lacey Black takes the stage July 11,…

U.S. population growth tilts toward Asians

For the second consecutive year, net immigration by Asians topped that of Hispanics, the agency reported. About 338,000 Asians immigrated…

Nation Briefs

WASHINGTON – Former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., who cut to the core of the 1973 Watergate hearings when he…

High court tosses abortion-protest law

Anti-abortion protester Eleanor McCullen stands at the edge of a painted buffer zone outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Boston.…

Sodexo cafeteria workers to regain health coverage

Julie Pemberton, a cashier at Curry College near Boston, is looking for a new apartment because her health insurance premiums…

Pressure grows for al-Maliki to step down

Iraqi Christian families gather at a social club in Ainkawa, a suburb of Irbil, Iraq, after fleeing Sunni militants who…

World Brief

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea fired three short-range projectiles Thursday into the waters off its east coast in a…

Thousands flee Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is calling on Russia to stop fighters from flowing into Ukraine from Russia. As a truce…

Colo.’s abortion protest law stands

high court strikes down similar Mass. law, state’s ‘buffer-zone’ rule unaffected

Local Briefs

Thirty-four Bike & Build riders will arrive in Durango on July 4 to help Habitat for Humanity at the construction…

Boy hit by car on Camino del Rio

A boy was hit by a car Thursday in the crosswalk at Seventh Street and Camino del Rio. The boy…