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Forest service won’t oppose state plan to buy air tankers

A slurry bomber dumps on the Weber Fire last year. The state is considering buying their own slurry bombers.Sam Green/Cortez…

Distance ed stretches from Cortez to Samoa

A delegation from Samoa visited the Unlimited Learning Center Monday. In front are Minister of Education, Sports & Culture, Mauiliu…

Locals only

draws an outdoorsy crowd for popular clearance pack sale

Probation for Baird in sexual assault

Judge Todd Plewe sentenced Baird to five years probation and 10 subsequent years where he must register as a sex…

‘Do it yourself’

Commissionerswon’t pay $2,075 to bring inhazard-plan grant

Sponsors water down mental-health gun bill

Sponsors have scaled back their original plan to allow mental health professionals to flag possibly dangerous patients and keep them…

Election-reform bill advances to full House

La Plata County Clerk Tiffany Lee Parker, a Republican, was one of the lead witnesses in favor of the bill…

State senate sends Medicaid expansion bill to House

Under Senate Bill 200, adults making 133 percent of the federal poverty level – $15,282 for a single person –…

Sen. Udall seeks drought aid

The letter, signed by Udall and nine other senators, seeks to provide aid — similar to federal crop insurance programs…

Law requires officers to train for dog encounters

The Erie police officer told her he had no choice but to kill the dog after responding to her house…

State wants its own slurry bombers

Journal/Sam Green A slurry bomber dumps on Meneffee Mountain last year during the Weber fire. The lack of planes could leave…

April 16, 2013

Tipton pushes wildfire-prevention bill

The bill would increase state control over forest management in federal lands and allow governors to designate areas as “high…

April 16, 2013

Tipton pushes forward on wildfire prevention bill

The bill would increase state control over forest management in federal lands and allow governors to designate areas as “high…

State wants its own slurry bombers

Journal/Sam Green A slurry bomber dumps on Meneffee Mountain last year during the Weber fire. The state is considering buying their…

Young leaders concoct ‘Green Scheme’

Shopping locally is focus of High School Leadership Montezuma project

Irrigators, rafters face bleak summer

2012 decision to draw down lake brings low releases this year

State legislator loses water fight with Forest Service bigwigs

Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, said he expects his House Bill 1013 to die without a vote in May, when the…

Dems vote to expand rural renewable-energy mandate

Senate Bill 252’s biggest effect falls on Tri-State Generation and Transmission, which supplies electricity to rural cooperatives such as Empire…

Scavenging ‘buzzards’ herald spring

A TURKEY VULTURE surveys the area from the top of a fence post. The vultures return each year late in…

Praise for Haukeness

principal lauded for ingenuity, student performance

County administrator quits abruptly

Harrisondu1-i-syn By Luke Groskopf Journal Staff Writer Montezuma County Administrator Ashton Harrison resigned unexpectedly Tuesday morning after almost seven years…