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With 14 days left in the 2018 General Assembly session, the count for bills that are still pending some form of action has gone down, but not by much. There are now 174 bills in the House awaiting...

Colorado Department of Transportation and contractor A&S Construction Services will start a four-month pavement resurfacing project Monday on a 14.3-mile section of U.S. Highway 160, from mile...

SALIDA – The co-owner of a Colorado crane company that once employed the Waffle House shooting suspect said they urged the Secret Service to try to help him after he was arrested at the White House...

Both La Plata and Montezuma counties are in an “exceptional drought” listing – the most critical drought category from the U.S. Drought Monitor – and it doesn’t look as if there’s any hope for a...

Tom Stritikus, deputy director of K-12 Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was named the next president of Fort Lewis College on Monday by the Board of Trustees. Stritikus will take...

Three media groups have awarded The Durango Herald for outstanding work in 2017. Judges commended the newspaper for stories and photographs, as well as its website. “Once again, our journalists...

Durango City Council supported a new ordinance during a work session Tuesday night that would prohibit sitting or lying on sidewalks or in alleys downtown. The proposal has been controversial...

Durango Police Tuesday 12:02 a.m. Someone reported a dog barking for three hours in the 1700 block of County Road 203. 1:20 a.m. A woman refused to leave Denny’s Restaurant, 666 Camino del Rio....

Once again, a fire to clear ditches on a local ranch blew out of control. Tuesday’s blaze burned about 20 acres on County Road 526, said Deputy Chief Roy Vreeland of the Upper Pine River Fire...