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Construction starts on new Head Start site near Durango Public Library

The need for more affordable child care in Durango is dire, but additional help is on the way. Tri-County Head Start’s new Durango building is on track to open during summer 2026, said Lisa Stone, exe...
DATE: Jul 06, 2025 CATEGORY: Local News

Cleanup and community progress nine years since the river turned orange

In August 2015, an unplanned release of acid mine drainage from the Gold King Mine turned the Animas River bright orange. It looked horrible – but thankfully, this orange plume was less damaging to hu...
DATE: Jul 06, 2025 CATEGORY: Opinion

Photos: Fireworks show lights up Cortez sky on Fourth of July

Topping off the Independence Day celebration Friday in Cortez, the fireworks show was grand as ever. Just west of Parque de Vida was a car show, put on by BumzArodn. Crowds leisurely strolled by look...
DATE: Jul 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Gallery

A ‘Fourth of July for the Four Corners’

Friends and family gathered in droves Friday afternoon for Cortez’s Fourth of July event at Parque de Vida, departing from the previously more informal celebrations of independence, but focused on saf...
DATE: Jul 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Local News

Rise in immigration enforcement in La Plata County stirs fear, questions

A growing sense of fear, distrust and anger has taken hold in the immigrant community after a series of arrests and encounters with immigration officers – including a workplace raid in Durango, vehicl...
DATE: Jul 05, 2025 CATEGORY: Local News

Photos: Durango gets ‘Wet and Wild’

DATE: Jul 04, 2025 CATEGORY: Gallery

Visitors tour Fort Lewis College’s Old Fort Campus for history day

HESPERUS – La Plata County’s annual driving tour took a turn into different format this year. There was just one destination – the Old Fort in Hesperus – where its 145-year history was the center of f...
DATE: Jul 04, 2025 CATEGORY: Local News

Sheriff’s blotter

Wednesday, June 11 2:10 a.m.: A deputy responded to 23890 Road G in Cortez, where a woman was stopped for a window tint violation. A search of her vehicle revealed drug paraphernalia and suspected nar...
DATE: Jul 04, 2025 CATEGORY: For the record

A volunteer finds the Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents in Massachusetts

GROTON, Massachusetts – Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in pri...
DATE: Jul 04, 2025 CATEGORY: Faith

Update: Oak Ridge Fire grows to more than 10,712 acres, is 13% contained

The Oak Ridge Fire, 8 miles southwest of Window Rock, has spread to more than 10,712 acres, with 13% containment, according to Navajo Department of Emergency Management. The fire was reported June 28 ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2025 CATEGORY: Tri-Cities

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