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Is Durango passing the stay-at-home test?

Traffic slows, grocery stores increase social distancing

By Shannon Mullane Pine River Valley reporter

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LATEST CORONAVIRUS CASES

As of 4 p.m. Saturday, April 11

In Colorado

6,893 cases
1,376 hospitalized
56 counties
34,873 people tested
274 deaths
67 outbreaks at residential and non-hospital health care facilities

In the region

La Plata County: 43 cases
Montezuma County: 11 cases, 2 deaths
Archuleta County: 6 cases
Dolores County: 0 cases
San Juan County (CO): 0 cases
San Juan County (NM): 142 cases
San Miguel County: 12 cases

Headlines

Local News

One new positive COVID-19 case in Montezuma County

Local News

Health department issues face covering advisory

Visual Arts

Local artist offers coloring pages to download

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Have you been keeping up with local headlines? Test your knowledge in Quiz No. 66

Music

Pagosa Folk ’N Bluegrass Festival canceled

Local News

Text alert reminds Coloradans about extended stay-at-home order

Regional News

CBD processing start-up could help Southwest Colorado hemp farmers

Local News

Durango sewing boutique puts needles, thread to work for first responders

Local News

In internet age, not even a global pandemic can cancel school

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Airport travel down nearly 95% in Durango

Farmington

COVID-19 infects Farmington nursing home

Local News

Coronavirus slows CBI investigation into Durango finances

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Videos & Photos

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Getting creative with online learning

Rachel Lodwick has encouraged her elementary art class to continue creating with what they have at home while working online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Telluride and Rico: The impacts of COVID-19

Life under order to shelter in place.

A homegrown effort led by the Durango MakerLab is bringing supplies to health care workers amid a nationwide shortage of protective gear for nurses and doctors on the front line of the coronavirus... Read more

City of Durango Update Video

First day of spring

A winter storm moved through the area on the first day of sping Thursday leaving several inches of snow in the Animas Valley and more than a foot of snow in the San Juan Mountains.

Columns

Creating Community

Coronavirus affecting everyone

What's Up Downtown

What a difference a month makes

Gulliford's Travels

Adventure seekers: FLC award inspires students to pursue outdoor dreams

Reader Poll

Do you feel people are adequately following social-distancing recommendations to limit the spread of the coronavirus?

Related article: Durango city council warns of potential trail closures

Trail systems serve as the lifeblood for Durango outdoor recreation. Keeping those networks open during the coronavirus pandemic is important to public officials, but trail closures are a real possibility because...