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DENVER - The Legislature moved a step closer to banning hand-held cell phones for drivers Thursday.With less than two weeks left in the 2009 session, House Bill 1094 is now just a few votes away...

Local commuters who noticed delays on Florida Road this week should get used to the idea.Workers are installing a traffic signal and turn lanes at the junction of Florida Road (County Road 240) and...

A satellite post office on north Main Avenue could reopen within a few months if the U.S. Postal Service finds a new contractor, a representative of the building's owner said Thursday.The satellite...

La Plata County has expressed interest in purchasing a building across from the courthouse to keep government offices downtown.The property owner, Edward O. Sittner Jr. of Las Vegas, said Thursday...

The matter of backyard hens was bandied  around again Thursday but raised few hackles at a poorly attended public forum at the Durango Community Recreation Center, where a clutch of experts were...

DENVER - Supporters of a budget-reform plan released details Thursday as a House panel approved the idea on a party-line vote.Gov. Bill Ritter announced the idea Wednesday afternoon, and the House...

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe reservation could see as many as 770 additional coal-bed methane wells in the next two decades as operators seek to extract the last remnants of the gas from the...