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Fort Lewis Mesa Fire Protection District asks for property tax increase

District voters will vote on two measures

Connecticut man dies Saturday on Vallecito Creek Trail

Hiker, 55, went into cardiac arrest on walk with family

Repairs force drainage of Groundhog Reservoir; no bag limit on fish

Emergency fish salvage implemented

Writer Rick Kempa is Mesa Verde’s next artist-in-residence

The Journal Rick Kempa, a poet and essayist from Rock Springs, Wyoming, will be Mesa Verde National Park’s artist-in-residence from Sept. 3-15. He has served as artist-in-residence at Grand Canyon…

San Juan Regional to offer Cortez career fair

Animas Surgical Hospital is planning to open a 73,125-square-foot expansion and a two-level parking garage in the fall of 2019.Courtesy of Capital Growth Medvest San Juan Regional Medical Center will…

Man suspected of biting police officer during arrest

Officers initially responded to domestic violence call

Photos: Peregrine falcon visits downtown Durango

What’s next for youth detention center in Durango?

Law enforcement officials caught off guard by abrupt closure

Saturday artist reception canceled in Mancos

The artist reception for Hilary Mockewich scheduled for Saturday in Mancos has been canceled. The event has been rescheduled for Sept. 29 and will be held during the last Grand…

ACLU takes aim at Durango’s camping ban

Criminalizing homelessness is unconstitutional, group says

BP looks to pull out of Southwest Colorado, northern New Mexico

Company intends to sell its assets in San Juan Basin

Animas Surgical Hospital sees room to grow

‘We’re bursting at the seams’

Community college kicks off school year

San Juan String Band to perform at Cortez Public Library

The San Juan String Band, from left, Carol Calkin, Joni Vanderbilt, Joan Green and Laurie Swisher, play a sample of their show at the San Juan National Forests Supervisors Office…

The Bridge Shelter plans September groundbreaking

du1-i-syn The Bridge Shelter announced on Monday that it will host a public groundbreaking for its new building on Sept. 6 at 9 a.m. The shelter, which was designed by…

Crime fighting: There’s an app for that

Law enforcement use social media to solve crimes, find missing persons

Results from the Montezuma County Fair’s open class

The Montezuma County Fairgrounds.The Journal file Pantry Adult, Canned Fruit PantryPatty Randol, Blue, Reserve Champion; Ann Streett-Joslin, Blue Champion; Brandee Simmons, Blue, 3rd Yellow; Ann Street-Joslin, Champion; Ann Street-Joslin, Blue,…

Plans for prescribed burns put on hold in fire-fatigued Southwest Colorado

Conditions are too dangerous, officials say

U.S. cancels proposal to sell former monument land in Utah

Zinke had said it would unload parts of Grand-Staircase Escalante

Church wants to repurpose old Walmart building in Cortez

Rock Springs has outgrown location