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Fire crews from the San Juan National Forest are battling two small fires on Missionary Ridge. The fires are a couple hundred yards apart, and combined are less than half an acre. There are no...
DATE: Aug. 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
A bat discovered on the Fort Lewis College campus earlier this week tested positive for rabies. Staff members of the Campbell Child & Family Center, a child care center on campus, found a bat on...
DATE: Aug. 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
A 58-year-old Bayfield woman died in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash Thursday morning 7 miles south of Silverton on U.S. Highway 550. Kathryn Tucker was traveling northbound on a 2013...
DATE: Aug. 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
A new ordinance prohibiting people from sitting or lying on Durango sidewalks may be accomplishing its goal: putting a stop to the behavior. After the ordinance went in effect June 19, Durango...
DATE: Aug. 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
A man involved in a hiking accident died Tuesday in the Lower Ice Lake Basin. Robert Rader, a 72-year-old from Dallas, Texas, was hiking with family and friends when he tripped and fell 100 to 150...
DATE: Aug. 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Military surplus vehicles obtained by local law enforcement agencies give rural parades a little pep, but on occasion, they’re put to good use ending standoffs or assisting in other emergencies....
DATE: Aug. 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Blake Knoll picked a tough time to start his first year farming. Knoll, who recently retired, is the only employee at Pinyon Crest Farms and had to deal with the drought that has hit southwestern...
DATE: Aug. 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food
Recent rainfall has given fire officials the confidence to declare the 416 Fire 100 percent contained as of 3 p.m. Tuesday – on schedule with a projected containment date. Firefighters created a...
DATE: July 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
The Animas River has received a barrage of incidents over the past week, but Durango’s rafting industry remains undeterred. The biggest problem the rafting industry faces isn’t the incidents...
DATE: July 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
A high-speed chase in Durango ended in a manhunt that resulted in the arrest of two individuals a few miles north of Bayfield on Saturday evening. Christopher Sowder, 24, and Dillon McCarthy, 23,...
DATE: July 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
The grandstands at the La Plata County Fairgrounds were packed Saturday afternoon as people crowded to watch the annual Durango Fiesta Days. Saturday’s events featured a parade down Main Avenue in...
DATE: July 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
As of 2 p.m. Saturday, power was restored after a downed electrical line in the lower Animas Valley north of Durango caused a power outage that affected 398 people. The downed line was located on...
DATE: July 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
The Durango Herald is assisting Santa this year in collecting letters from local children. Drop off your child’s letter to Santa in the mailbox in front of The Durango Herald, 1275 Main Avenue, in downtown Durango. All letters will be added to this photo gallery and a selection will run in The Durango Herald on Dec. 22.
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