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All-state selections cap historic baseball season for Montezuma-Cortez

Miles Frost pitches in a contest against Pagosa Springs. (Courtesy Jerry Cohoe) Panthers earns postseason honors after state tournament appearance…

June 24, 2023

Dove Creek’s Taber caps career with all-state honor

Cole Taber makes contact with ball to send a ground ball to shortstop. (Sam Green/Special to The Journal)Sam Green/Special to…

June 24, 2023

Mancos school board adopts new project-based learning curriculum for K-5th

Board of Education commits to the new curriculum for the next four years

June 23, 2023

Mancos Summer Hub in full swing as all-day care for local children

The program was started by Mancos United and members of the community

June 23, 2023

Cortez, Durango and Farmington swim clubs kick-start season

Durangon team rallies for win in Cortez

June 23, 2023

Supreme Court ruling complicates Navajo Nation’s fight for more water

‘The battle and the strategy moving ahead is going to be a lot more difficult’

June 23, 2023

Red Rocks to revamp evacuation plans after hailstorm injuries at concert

A sunny day at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison in 2019. (Stephanie Wolf/CPR News) Red Rocks Amphitheater outside Morrison will…

June 23, 2023

Colorado taxpayers will get even larger refund checks next year than predicted

TABOR surplus is now estimated at more than $3 billion

June 23, 2023

Bennet wants a federal agency to regulate artificial intelligence

Experts in technology and social media would help guide policies

June 23, 2023

Right to Contraception Act reintroduced into Congress

Legislation seeks to cement health care rights

June 23, 2023

Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in Colorado River water rights case

The Colorado River in the upper River Basin is pictured in Lees Ferry, Ariz., on May 29, 2021. The Supreme…

June 22, 2023

House Republicans push off Biden impeachment bid for now

Rep. Lauren Boebert forced a snap vote, which sent her resolution to committees for possible consideration

June 22, 2023

Man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide, assault for DUI crash southwest of Durango

Justin Jobe, 36, ran into a tree while driving 110 mph

June 22, 2023

Biden wants to make conservation equal to ranching and mining. The GOP won’t have it

Republican-led House committee voted to withdraw a BLM rule it links to ‘Biden’s preservationist agenda’

June 22, 2023

Wildlife officials issue warning following fawn kidnapping, moose’s fatal jump from parking garage

Reminder comes during an uptick of apparently inadvertent abuses

June 22, 2023

Blood-red crickets invade Nevada town; residents fight back with brooms, blowers, plows

Crushed crickets leave roads slick and dangerous

June 22, 2023

Prescribed burn begins at Boggy Draw north of Dolores

Smoke seen for miles as 1,400 acres are ignited

June 22, 2023

Cortez school board discusses new policies and BOCES; hears from Moreland

Cortez school board meeting lasts nearly five hours

June 21, 2023

Crash at Navajo Dam kills two

Woman drives off cliff in accident

June 21, 2023

Random shooting leaves car riddled with bullets

Man suffers gunshot to his leg

June 21, 2023

Small wildfire on Ophir Pass contained Wednesday

Work continues this week to completely extinguish the area

June 21, 2023

Two killed in crash involving motorcycle and pickup truck east of Bayfield

Couple were traveling east on U.S. Highway 160 when vehicle turned in front of them

June 21, 2023

Cortez teenager pleads guilty to stabbing mother to death in 2022

Teen’s lawyers attempt a plea agreement; family pushes back

June 21, 2023

Railroad sues insurance over 416 fire coverage

Were fire and subsequent mudslides one incident or two? That’s the $25 million question

June 20, 2023