News

Thereâ€™s a party going on at the library

Roan Harvey, 7, reads her favorite author, Bill Peet, Thursday at Durango Public Library. The library is celebrating National Library…

April 17, 2013

Local News

No explosions reported during truck fire

“The tires on those trucks heat up enough so they pop quite loudly,” Deputy Chief Tom Aurnhammer of the Los…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Industry mutes Colo. Dems’ efforts to rein in drillers

Senator says state has more lobbyists than inspectors

April 17, 2013

Regional News

Former N.M. judge enters plea in bribery case

Former state district Judge Michael Murphy entered the plea under a deal with prosecutors that dismissed four felony charges and…

April 17, 2013

Local News

Durango man, 27, found dead at home

Taylor Folmar was discovered by a family member just before 8 p.m., said Joe Farmer, a detective with the Durango…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

FBI issues photos of 2 suspects in Boston Marathon bombing

This combination of images released by the FBI on Thursday shows who the FBI is calling Suspect 2, left, in…

April 17, 2013

Local News

Gang of 8 unveils immigration bill

says Coloradans bring ‘broken system’ to his attention

April 17, 2013

Local News

Cell service upgrades lead to temporary downgrades

Dropped calls plaguing AT&T customers in Bayfield area

April 17, 2013

Local News

State tanker fleet OK with feds

Service chief: Agency will have enough firefighting planes

April 17, 2013

Local News

New district judge takes oath

William Herringer, a longtime defense lawyer in Durango, was appointed by Gov. John Hickenlooper in March to serve as a…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Surveillance video shows bomb suspect in Boston

Investigators comb through the finish-line area of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street on Wednesday, two days after two bombs…

April 17, 2013

Local News

Colo. senators back failed gun bill

Both Colorado Democrats supported a bipartisan amendment that would have expanded background checks to gun shows and the Internet. That…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Defeat of background checks angers Obama

‘Pretty shameful day for Washington’ president says

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Assad accuses West of backing al-Qaida in Syria

Bashar Assad also lashed out at Jordan for allowing “thousands” of fighters to enter Syria through its borders and warned…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Options narrow for Venezuelan opposition

Opposition activists and independent observers called the judge’s declaration blatant and legally unfounded favoritism from a purportedly independent body that…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Trespassing accusation leaves Sanford on his own

This is a side view of the home of Jenny Sanford taken Wednesday on Sullivan’s Island, S.C., where she says…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

New Zealand is 13th country to legalize gay marriage

Lawmakers voted 77 to 44 in favor of the gay-marriage bill on its third and final reading Wednesday night. People…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Illinois House approves use of medical marijuana

The proposed legislation creates a four-year pilot program that requires patients and caregivers to undergo background checks, limits the amount…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Appeals court hears challenge to gay therapy ban

It’s the “pivot point” of the legal debate, Judge Morgan Christen of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Arizona moves to force sale of turned-in guns

In Arizona, however, the Republican-controlled Legislature is now moving to save such guns. Prompted by a gun buyback event in…

April 17, 2013

Nation & World

Britain’s Iron Lady laid to rest with full pomp

Alastair Grant/Associated Press<br><br>Mark Thatcher and his wife, Sarah, watch as the coffin of his mother, former British Prime Minister Margaret…

April 17, 2013

Good Earth

Shipwreck uncovers Chinese poachers

“It is bad enough that the Chinese have illegally entered our seas, navigated without boat papers and crashed recklessly into…

April 17, 2013

Good Earth

The sound of croaking

grows over vanishing Caribbean frogs

April 17, 2013

Good Earth

China fidgets as cities’ heat rises

readings linked to warming produced by humans

April 17, 2013