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LATEST CORONAVIRUS CASES

As of 4 p.m. Thursday, April 9

In Colorado

6,202 cases
1,221 hospitalized
56 counties
31,180 people tested
226 deaths
54 outbreaks at residential and non-hospital health care facilities

In the region

La Plata County: 42 cases
Montezuma County: 8 cases, 1 death
Archuleta County: 6 cases
Dolores County: 0 cases
San Juan County (CO): 0 cases
San Juan County (NM): 126 cases
San Miguel County: 11 cases

Headlines

Local News

San Miguel County suspends, then recommits to testing experiment

Local News

Design work to proceed on pedestrian bridge, even if funding is postponed

Local News

Photos: Halloween creatures return to enforce social distancing

Music

Photo: John Prine leaves the stage

Arts & Entertainment

Residents stay safe while being stylish

Local News

Colorado fire chiefs call for six-month ban on open fires

Farmington

Farmington teachers take creative approach to online learning

Local News

Community Emergency Relief Fund opens new round of funding

Regional News

Colorado reaches 227 coronavirus deaths; Polis: ‘many more losses ahead’

Local News

Former Durango reverend shares experience from inside Italy

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Widespread community testing for coronavirus to be available in Southwest Colorado

Local News

10 easy steps to make your own face mask

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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

Downtown Lowdown

Bar-D Wrangler Gary Cook looks back at lifetime in the music business

From the Extension Office

Much has changed, but safe produce washing has not

Healing Nutrition

Vegetable oil: Not as healthy as you might think it is

Reader Poll

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

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