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Mancos Valley Resources and will hold film fest on June 29-30

Events benefit nonprofits in county

Fort Lewis College to observe summer solstice

A summer solstice celebration will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Center of Southwest Studies museum at Fort…

Champion juggler Peter Davison to perform at Cortez Public Library

The Journal Champion juggler and movement artist Peter Davison will perform at the Cortez Public Library on Wednesday, June 20,…

Cortez Public Library has opening for struggling reader

The Journal The Cortez Public Library’s reading volunteer program – Raising Readers Intervention, Mentoring, Tutoring Program – has one slot…

Social work license course registration opens

The University of Denver’s Four Corners program has opened registration for a social work license preparation course. The class will…

Farmers, ranchers invited to nominate committee candidates

The Journal The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency is accepting nominations from farmers and ranchers for candidates to…

Montezuma School to Farm Project to host annual training

Montezuma School to Farm Project garden coordinator Patrick Alford helps Manaugh Elementary students plant an apple tree at the school…

Solar economics topic of next Lunch and Learn

Shaw Solar and Durango Chamber of Commerce will present a Lunch and Learn event about the economics of solar power…

Reducing personal water use in small ways adds up

Sprinklers can waste water if they spray into a gutter next to a lawn.Durango Herald file The small ways people…

Rain calms Burro Fire; bulldozers cut ‘solid lines’ on fire’s west side

‘Extended monsoons’ needed to put out fire, reopen forest

BLM Tres Rios office closes several recreation areas

The Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office announced Friday it was closing Animas City Mountain because of the…

Evacuation orders in 416 Fire begin to lift

‘We were tired of living out of suitcases’

8 homes in Moab burn as wildfires menace the West

Fire along Wyoming-Colorado border doubles in size

Cortez Public Library hosts Discover Health exhibit

Burro Fire continues to grow; storm could bring lightning, a little rain

Fire jumps Forest Road 561 to south, moves northeast

When wildfires rage, where do animals go?

Wildlife and fire experts say critters can fend for themselves

Initial evacuees go home, but more placed on pre-evacuation

416 Fire – now at 27,420 acres – expected to burn well into July

Durango recreation economy feels heat from smoke, land closures

Mountain bike trails are closed, air too smoky to run

Burro Fire slows; Mancos State Park joins list of closures

Fire reaches 2,800 acres on Wednesday

Burro Fire meeting will be at Dolores Community Center June 14

Specifics on forest closure will also be presented

Some evacuees go home; firefighters focus on 416’s southwest side

‘Happy to get back. We were tired of living out of suitcases’

Dolores Brewery hosts acclaimed singer

Michaela Ann praised in New York Times

Dolores getting back on track

Recovery underway after two resign

WWII Navajo Code Talker Samuel Tom Holiday dies at age 94

ST. GEORGE, Utah — Samuel Tom Holiday, one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, died in southern Utah Monday…