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Four Corners bank recognized as family-friendly business

Four Corners Community Bank recently earned top-level distinction for its workplace policies by Family Friendly New Mexico. The statewide project…

Sew By SO moves to North Maple Street

The Journal Sharleen Odell, who owns Sew By SO, has moved her business to her recently purchased building at 43…

International film festival returns to Sunflower Theatre in Cortez

Audience will vote on 10 shorts at Oct. 7 screening

Photos: Third Thursday Market wraps up

The Six Dollar String Band played folk music Sept. 21 at the year’s final Third Thursday Market in Montezuma Park…

SWOS achieves improvement status in state testing

Alternative campus achieves ‘improvement’ status after rating climbs

Wildfire north of McPhee Reservoir contained, Forest Service says

Crews from 3 districts responded to Hoppe Point Fire

Photo: Moose on the loose

Durango resident Peter Schertz caught a moose strolling through Pioneer Park on Thursday morning in northern Durango.Courtesy of Peter Schertz

Marijuana shop employee sentenced in theft case

Military discounts used to embezzle money

Dolores school board candidates field questions during forum

At a public forum Tuesday, seven candidates running for two open seats on the Dolores School Board fielded a variety…

Prescribed burns planned for West Rim, Rabbit Mountain

600 acres to receive fire treatment

Montezuma County eases Summit Ridge road access to BLM land

Public land access cited, but parking problem persists

Number of uninsured residents drops in Southwest Colorado

Survey: Since Obamacare, more people have coverage statewide

Yucca House monument expansion gets county approval

Land donation allows access to monument

Photos: Two-car crash injures three people

Two-car crash injures three people

Hovenweep, Natural Bridges announce community artist program

Montezuma residents eligible

Red flag warning issued for Southwest Colorado

Colorado fire weather zones 207 in Montezuma County and 290 in Montrose County.National Weather Service A red flag warning is…

Stonemasons go old-school to repair Colorado monument walls

erched on a ledge above Monument Canyon, stonemason Scott Banjac, of Fruita, applies mortar between the red sandstone rocks along…

Tribes commit to uphold Paris climate agreement

Western nations push for self-governance

Ex-judge, wife may have died of carbon monoxide poisoning

The bodies of Roger Cisneros, 93, and his wife, Adelia, 89, were found Monday in their southwestern Denver residence.KMGH-TV DENVER…

EPA installs barrier, valve in mine that spilled toxic waste

Kayakers in the Animas River, which was colored from a mine waste spill, on Aug. 6, 2015.Jerry McBride/The Durango Herald…

Who will be next generation’s farmers?

Average age of state’s farmers is almost 59; cost of startup, land are hurdles

Monuments report challenges limits of protections

In Antiquities Act, landscapes like Grand Canyon count as ‘objects’ that can be protected

Zinke’s fire memo calls for aggressive forest thinning

The policy ignores major drivers of West’s fires