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Colorado Parks and Wildlife will fund $319,000 toward improving motorized trails in cooperation with the Colorado Youth Corps Association. According to a CPW news release March 31, the Youth Corps...

Finalists have been named in five categories that will be presented at the Durango Chamber of Commerce’s annual Durango Rocks Award ceremony to be held online April 28. The event will be held...

Three women and a child were injured and sent to Mercy Regional Medical Center on Saturday evening in a three-car crash east of Elmore’s Corner. Colorado State Patrol Master Sgt. Gary Cutler said...

A dispute about someone failing to wear a mask led another person to pull out a gun at Wildcat Canyon Liquor around 1 p.m. Saturday, but no shots were fired and no one was injured. La Plata County...

Cortez has been reapproved to be a part of the state’s Rural Jump-Start Program in an effort to attract new businesses and jobs to the city. The idea behind the program is to help rural,...

San Juan National Forest’s Dolores Ranger District will open access to McPhee Reservoir on April 17 for motorized boating. Operational hours for the main McPhee boat ramp are: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m....

Information and agendas about local meetings City of Durango: www.durangogov.org or call 375-5000. La Plata County: www.co.laplata.co.us or call 382-6210. Town of Bayfield: www.bayfieldgov.org ...

With an increasing supply of the COVID-19 vaccination, Fort Lewis College has decided to host seven small, outdoor, in-person commencement ceremonies in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic prevented Fort...

About 90 people participated in last week’s quiz. Participants scored highest on a question about a baby born with certain antibodies, with 97% of respondents correctly answering “Coronavirus.”...

Members of several area churches came together over the weekend in downtown Durango for a parade and lunch as part of Resurrection Fest, a three-day celebration of Easter. The festival was...

La Plata County will put the brakes on a project to build a new radar system for the Four Corners after concerns were raised that a selected site south of Durango did not provide the best coverage...