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Local Briefs

Season’s Rotisserie and Grill, 764 Main Ave., will host a fundraising dinner May 28 to support the cycling team Durango…

Good Earth

Earth Briefs

Regular tours of the Library Demonstration Garden, between Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., and the Animas River Trail,…

Good Earth

Bee-colony death rate falls to 23%

it good news? Expert says ‘no’

Are we breathing clean mountain air?

Corners plants ID’d as biggest polluters

Forest Service adds 4 air tankers to fleet

Official: S.W. Colorado getting ‘just enough moisture’

Durango zeroes in on retail pot rules

Limited number of shops would be OK downtown

Dual left turns reinstated at College and Camino

Starting this morning, drivers traveling westbound and eastbound on College Drive who want to make left-hand turns onto Camino del…

House Democrats to participate in Benghazi probe

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is naming five Democrats to sit on a Republican-led House select committee that will…

BP to ask Supreme Court to hear claims issue

BP cites a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals justice’s dissent that the appellate court’s refusal to reconsider the oil…

Ex-sheriff’s deputy gets probation

Sutter must register as sex offender

Tourism industry ready to raft

competition provides bragging rights

Colorado’s lieutenant governor promotes reading in Bayfield

Garcia: Early education key to high school graduation

Durango vs. Anchorage: At a glance

Durango Population: 17,216 Average Income: $53,173 Median House Price: $357,700 Unemployment: 6.6 percent Days Per Year of Sunshine: 300 Average…

Is Durango the ‘Best Town in America?’

We're in the running for Outside magazine's contest to pick the best place in America

Student loan debt holding back economy

20-somethings delaying home, car purchases

Regional News

Northern Arizona wildfire forces evacuations near park

The Slide Fire burns south of Flagstaff, Arizona, on Wednesday. Evacuations of surrounding areas took place late afternoon Tuesday. The…

Regional News

Utah spending $550K on public lands study

Three Utah universities are working together on the study, which is scheduled to be released in November. The study looks…

Dayplanner Thursday

Robin Davis, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Trivia Night, 5:30 p.m., Durango Discovery Museum, 1333 Camino del…

Proposed 9-R spending in 2014-15: $39.5 million

Personnel cuts, new spending keep budget static

The Blotter

Tuesday 12:07 p.m. A shirtless man was asking for money on the west side of the intersection of Main Avenue…

McConnel beats back challenger in primary race

Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, left, won an easy primary fight to get to run as the GOP candidate for…

World Briefs

JOS, Nigeria – Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos…

Disease feared after floods

Bosnian officials are warning residents of flood-hit areas to only drink bottled or boiled water because of the threat of…