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Spruce Tree House closure doesn’t deter visitors

Rockfall leads to indefinite closing of popular Mesa Verde attraction

Aztec granny leads ‘Toxic Tour of Hell’

Four hours spent viewing the worst of oil and gas impacts

Mancos livestock ordinances still not ready

After 3 years of discussion, ordinances head to a workshop before a final vote

Mancos Schools working on alternative to state tests

‘We feel like there is a lot more to the picture,’ superintendent says

Painted Turtle offers workshops

For The Journal The Painted Turtle Studio in Mancos invites the public to participate in its classes and workshops on mosaics, beginner and intermediate wheel-throwing, hand-building instruments with clay, and…

Dolores grad wins trip to LA for her elk ‘perfume’

Dolores grad designs new product

Southern Ute museum’s nonprofit status may dissolve

Tribe and museum at odds over management, money

Vaccine database bill moves ahead

A bill in the Colorado Legislature creating a database tracking kids who have not been vaccinated has drawn opposition from Republicans who say such a database could open the door…

Bill in Colorado Legislature would analyze water lost to Nebraska

Study would consider reservoir on South Platte River

Police reform measures advance

Stakeholders come together

Homeless program receives HUD grant

Housing Solutions for the Southwest gets $139,910 to aid homeless families

Truck spill is for the birds

Raw sunflower seeds cover the ground after Texas truck driver Joe Ortiz lost control going around the Big Bend curve on Colorado Highway 184 Thursday afternoon. Ortiz was transported to…

Forecast calls for rafting on Dolores River

Whitewater a 50-50 proposition

Cortez Middle School bands earn high marks in Farmington

The Cortez Middle School’s eighth-grade band, directed by Katie Zdanowski, performs at San Juan College in Farmington on March 8 as part of the Northwest New Mexico Music Educators Association…

Firefighting costs eat into U.S. Forest Service budget for recreation

Gardner says cuts hurt Colorado’s outdoors industry

Ute Mountain Ute petition seeks finance investigation

‘People want change,’ tribal member says

Do you have a pothole to report?

BLM hosts oil and gas talks

Public invited to comment at March 16 meeting

Towers of steel go up in Durango

Holiday seasonal sales, lodgers tax collections disappointing in Durango

Lodgers tax declines; sales tax growth lower than expected