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Don’t get burned by wildfire

Creating ‘survivable’ space around your home may save it

Local Briefs

A property tax exemption may be available for tax year 2014 for qualifying senior citizens, the surviving spouses of seniors…

Insurance signups reach 6 million goal

The announcement – four days before open enrollment season ends Monday – fulfills a revised goal set by the Congressional…

House delays Medicare pay cuts

Congress is moving to adopt another 12-month patch for the Medicare payment system after the House voted Thursday to grant…

Nation Briefs

AUSTIN, Texas – A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld Texas’ tough abortion restrictions that have forced the closure of…

World Briefs

GENEVA – A U.N. panel has found serious shortcomings in the United States’ civil-rights record, with experts citing Thursday a…

FLC funding likely secured

deal includes $20. 8 million for Berndt Hall

Meeting to examine gun-range access

facility planned at Bodo Industrial Park

A high-tech helicopter may aid firefighters

But no one can prove the C-130 tanker, or any other aircraft, actually help fight wildfires, the plane’s owners say.…

Being kind has its pluses

Character now part of grades at Durango High

Former defense secretary James Schlesinger dies

James Schlesinger is dead at 85. The onetime economics professor served three presidents in various capacities, including serving as defense…

IMF readies Ukraine loans

Russia urged United Nations to vote against a non-binding resolution affirming Ukraine’s territorial inte-grity, arguing that its annexation of Crimea…

Commanders fired in nuke missile cheating scandal

The Air Force is allowing Col. Robert Stanley II, commander of Malmstrom Air Force Base’s 341st Missile Wing, to resign…

Body cameras on hold for now

law-enforcement agencies are still hands-off with the new technology

N.M. revamps police training

aims to cut back on deadly force encounters

N.M. chile numbers down

Statistics released Thursday by state and federal agriculture agencies show the amount of hot peppers planted, harvested and produced in…

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.…

Prairie chicken listed as threatened

The Obama administration is placing the lesser prairie chicken on a list of threatened species, a move that could affect…

Colo. recall election changes clear hurdle

GOP: Sour grapes from gun-control recall losers behind tweaks

Snowy morning

The Blotter

Wednesday 1:45 p.m. An intoxicated man was passed out inside the Durango Transit Center, 250 West Eighth Street. 10:08 p.m.…

Red Mountain rockslide documented

When a massive rockslide closed Red Mountain Pass in mid-January, it triggered a massive – and dangerous – mitigation project.…

Most like sanctions, but not so for Obama

President Barack Obama’s job performance rating has dropped to its lowest level ever, with 59 percent of Americans disapproving of…

Peace Corps aims to boost recruiting

Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet told those gathered at the University of Michigan that the Peace Corps aims to double the…