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Smoke from wildfires drifting into Colorado

The U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center reports that fires in Utah and the Pacific Northwest have produced…

Durango to Grand Junction bus service arrives

Route begins July 15 and will pass through Mancos, Cortez, Dolores

Kinder Morgan expands to Goodman Point

Company plans to conduct seismic studies on private land

Habitat for Humanity gets a hand

Donor’s $50,000 frees up organization to buy home

Colton Wade Coffman

Funeral services for Colton Wade Coffman, 14 of Cortez, will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 17 in…

The next commodity distribution is Aug. 9

The next distribution is Saturday, Aug. 9. You must bring a box large enough for your commodities. The state has…

Lecture at Aztec Ruins rethinks Chimney Rock

Chimney Rock in southern Colorado is the most northern and eastern ancestral Pueblo site of the Chacoan world. Chimney Rock…

Boettcher Foundation honors M-CHS teacher

Scholar Abigail Lock picked Paul Koops

Nowlin provides stance on ICE holds

Write-in hopeful Steele declines to comment

Sheriff’s Blotter

Search and rescue Wednesday, July 9 5 p.m. A woman called in to report a man and two young children…

Stopping to smell the trees

Undocumenteds face license roadblocks

DMV office backed up, advocate says

Sky Vision Art and Music Camp

Hampton Inn going up despite $160,000 sewer fee

Hotel scheduled for March opening

A legal gray area for users of retail pot

Marijuana law doesn’t change much for workers, employers who do testing

New Cortez spa offers natural beauty products

Mom, daughter expand services

Sorting out legal marijuana

Like it or not, Durango poised to join Colorado’s exclusive club status when recreational pot goes on sale in the…

Cortez teen pleads guilty to murder

Jeroen Begay faces 30 years behind bars

McElmo flume presentation planned

The public is invited to a “Saturday Seminar” at the Animas Museum on Saturday, July 19 at 1 p.m. Linda…

Hoop dance

Little hummers

Twin baby hummingbirds poke their heads out of the nest at the home of Kent and Cynthia Slyter. The birds…

Man pleads not guilty in officer’s stabbing

A 37-year-old man pleaded not guilty Tuesday on charges stemming from a Valentine’s Day stabbing of a Cortez police officer.…

‘Honor one. Honor all.’

City memorializes local soldier who died in Iraq

Briefs

Reminder for school shots Attention parents and guardians: Students going into kindergarten and sixth grades need additional shots for school…