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Here’s a phone screen shot from a recent official La Plata County job posting. It looks like I may have chosen the wrong career path. No wonder our county budget is looking kinda slim. Sign me,...

Residents with opinions on the proposed expansion of GCC Energy’s King II coal mine in southwest La Plata County will have a chance to weigh in at an open house Thursday in Hesperus. Preparing for...

Less than 24 hours after a scary crash took Durango’s Christopher Blevins out of the elite professional men’s cross-country mountain bike national championship race, he jumped right back in the...

If Riley Amos and Madeline “Maddie Jo” Robbins had any fatigue from their national championship performances Saturday, it didn’t show Sunday. A day after the two claimed USA Cycling Mountain Bike...

Shelley Walchak, director of Pine River Library in Bayfield, is receiving the 2019 Career Achievement Award after 36 years of library service. The Colorado Association of Libraries informed the...

A woman injured about 10:50 a.m. Sunday while mountain biking in Horse Gulch was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center. The woman suffered a leg injury that is not life-threatening, said Ron...

Logan Willbanks, 24, of Dolores, was killed about 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning after he was ejected from the pickup he was driving after it wandered off the right side of U.S. Highway 160 approaching...

Almost everyone has played the mind game of imagining turning their good idea for a business into reality. Three businesswomen from Southwest Colorado who have made that leap offered some advice...

Nobody was going to take national championship jerseys off the backs of two of Durango’s brightest rising stars on Colorado soil Saturday. Madeline “Maddie Jo” Robbins opened Saturday morning’s USA...

WASHINGTON – When U.S. Congress legalized hemp in the 2018 Farm Bill, it allowed Colorado’s burgeoning hemp industry to thrive even more. The number of acres registered for hemp cultivation in...