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Bill would weigh economics of recreation

Goal is to educate Congress on impact of industry

Business

Ballantine Communications launches DGO in Durango area

Entertainment weekly hits streets

Business

Train numbers up despite Gold King Mine spill

‘Press Car’ tour focuses on health of Animas

Tipton opposes budget act House OKs deal to raise debt

Tipton WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a two-year bipartisan budget deal to extend the country’s borrowing…

Sex offender fails to register

The Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office reported this week that a convicted sex offender has failed to register with local authorities.…

Grazing on monument divides ranchers, environmentalists

Cattle grazing tour highlights chasm between ranchers, environmentalists at Canyons of the Ancients

Cattle truck driver charged; 3 cows died

Semi overturned Sunday on Camino del Rio in Durango

October 30, 2015

Education

Bennet supports limits on school tests

President asks states to do away with some assessments

Ex-sheriff candidate faces 7 sexual assault charges

Conner worked as officer between 1986 and 2006

City plans to add pickleball courts

Centennial Park getting $325,000 renovation

Sheriff investigates dispute over pot

Armed woman was ex-employee

Final days to vote

County clerk advises residents to drop off ballots; it’s too late for mail

City hashing out 2016 budget

$50,000 earmarked for demolitions

Intoxicated woman dies in county jail

Questions arise about protocols for jailing at-risk inmates

Mancos backyard farming rules now include livestock permit

Official ordinance coming by year’s end

Living

Vaccines urged as whooping cough increases

Health department recommends ‘circle of protection’ for babies

Business

Colorado attorney general sues to block carbon-pollution standard

Enviros accuse Coffman of games

Locals weigh in on Prop BB – the pot surplus

If Prop BB fails, $66 million could be returned to taxpayers, cultivators and consumers

Referendum 5A asks voters to OK hospital tax

Georgia Morelock answers the phone in the lobby of Southwest Memorial Hospital in 2012.Sam Green/The Journal The Montezuma County Hospital…

Referendum 4A asks to freeze DWCD levy

For 28 years, McPhee dam and reservoir have been serving Dolores and Montezuma Counties, plus the Ute Mountain Ute tribe,…

Living

Local pumpkin patches still have plenty for Halloween

Witches watch over the pumpkins at Jones Farm on Road M.Sam Green/The Journal Thanks to a wet start to summer,…

Delay upsets Paradise Village residents

City officials vow to improve communication about progress

Middle school counselor tapped as among best in state

Schneider-Lemay a semifinalist