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Demons sweep team, individual titles at Hillcrest

Fort Lewis use meet to prepare for upcoming competitions

Wild horses run free, or can get hired to serve community

Bureau of Land Management offers wild horses for use in law enforcement

Why climate change is making it harder to chase fall foliage

Leaf peeping seasons have been disrupted as the planet warms

Montezuma-Cortez decides on two-week mask mandate for students

School board OKs student mask mandate beginning Monday, allows board to vote by phone for remote learning

Silverton is about as vaccinated as it can get. But it still has COVID.

Shots alone aren’t enough to prevent spread because of porous geographic boundaries and waning vaccine effectiveness

Controversial Republican state Rep. Ron Hanks files to run for U.S. Senate in 2022

Hanks, who lives in Fremont County, has peddled baseless claims about the 2020 presidential election being fraudulent

The ACLU has become a powerful player at the Colorado Capitol. But at what cost?

Organization’s policy team resigned this month after running an ambitious legislative agenda

Drilling leases on 58,000 acres in public land in Colorado were awarded without proper environmental review

A federal judge was asked to void the leases awarded in 2018, but she instead ordered ‘remedial action’

Should methane rules extend to older wells?

U.S. Sens. Bennet, Hickenlooper seek to extend Obama-era protections to orphaned and abandoned sites

Dolores rescheduling homecoming events after virus spike

The district saw an upward trend in COVID-19 cases this week, particularly in the secondary school

Dolores Bears end three-year drought with big win

Dolores Bears Quarterback Wyatt Koskie tosses the ball to Dylan Rantz in this file photo.Sam Green/Special to The Journal Dolores…

Woman injured in shooting near Kemper Elementary is identified

Woman was found in back of car on the way to hospital, police say

Durango/Farmington bike tour becomes an official event

Half the tour is on pavement, half on dirt

White Mesa Mill in southeast Utah enters the rare earth market

Energy Fuels seeks to create a domestic supply; industrial plant near Ute Mountain tribe has divisive history

Cortez woman named Colorado queen of weight-loss organization

Courtesy photoJudy Echols of Cortez. who lost Judy Echols of Cortez, who lost 46.25 pounds, is the Colorado 2020 Queen…

Montezuma-Cortez golf to receive police and fire send-off to state

Cortez-Montezuma High School head coach Todd Plewe talks with Thayer Plewe on Sept. 2 at Conquistador Golf Course in Cortez.…

Man arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run, high-speed chase in Cortez

Blotter lightscca A New Mexico man who allegedly left the scene of a two-vehicle crash earlier this month in Cortez…

Durango firefighters test $1.2 million ladder truck

‘Tower 1’ can reach 100 feet, which will help protect hotels and downtown buildings

Montezuma County approves community intervention program

Pilot program would respond to mental health, substance abuse and non-criminal crisis situations

Ever get in the wrong car? This couple did, and took it home

Owner reports SUV stolen, then chalks it up to a ‘misunderstanding’

Delta Airlines to leave Durango-La Plata County Airport on Nov. 1

Airline says it didn’t have enough passengers to justify flights

UPDATE: Father and son suspected in bomb threat; no arrest in shooting near Kemper

Investigation of bomb threat turned over to Shiprock police

Mancos embarking on strategic plan, progress for school board meetings

District avoids ‘passion of the minute,’ focuses on learning and challenges of COVID-19