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Logging, thinning plan for Dolores District is released

The San Juan National Forest is seeking public comment on a proposed logging and forest restoration project northwest of Dolores and east of Dove Creek. The draft environmental assessment for th...

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 CATEGORY: Local News

Local bluegrass band High Country Hustle to play at Outlier

A week after their one-year anniversary party, Outlier Cellars will host local bluegrass band High Country Hustle on Saturday night. Based out of Durango, High Country Hustle is a “high-ene...

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 CATEGORY: Local News

Barrick goes after Newmont to create $42 billion gold giant

NEW YORK — Barrick Gold will try to acquire Newmont Mining Corp. in an approximately $18 billion all-stock deal that would create a mining behemoth worth about $42 billion. Colorado’s Newmo...

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 CATEGORY: Business

Local volunteers work to improve lives of Guatemalans

While Americans struggle to reform a complex and expensive health care system, Larry and Sandy Turner are working to fill the most basic health care needs of impoverished villagers in Guatemala. ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 CATEGORY: Local News

Sunnyside Gold says EPA should be recused from leading Silverton Superfund cleanup

Is it a conflict of interest for the Environmental Protection Agency, responsible for the Gold King Mine spill, to lead the Superfund cleanup of mine pollution around Silverton? The last company to op...

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 CATEGORY: Business

Oxbow bird study raises questions about effect of 416 Fire smoke

Smoke from the 416 Fire may have negatively affected birds in the 38-acre Oxbow Preserve last summer near northern Durango city limits. Researchers and volunteers captured 166 birds in the...

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 CATEGORY: Local News

River Studio Collective hosting three yoga classes for seasonal transitions

The River Studio Collective in Mancos is offering a three-week yoga series for women, starting this Friday. The series aims to help participants “gently and gracefully transition from winte...

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma-Cortez comes back to beat Alamosa for district title

Every so often, a team comes along and plays with such heart and such vigor that it becomes an impossible group not to love. Players form unbreakable bonds as fans flock to see them play and soon, the...

DATE: Feb 25, 2019 CATEGORY: High School Sports

MCHS girls fall just short in IML contest for third place

For The Journal The 3A Intermountain League has proven its mettle as one of the toughest conferences in the classification. With each passing week, the Montezuma-Cortez girls kept clawing t...

DATE: Feb 25, 2019 CATEGORY: High School Sports

Bill to limit plastic straws fails in committee

Rep. Susan Lontine abandoned an effort Monday to limit the use of plastic straws in the face of opposition from environmental activists and advocates of local control. House Bill 1143 woul...

DATE: Feb 25, 2019 CATEGORY: Local News

Logging, thinning plan for Dolores District is released

Local bluegrass band High Country Hustle to play at Outlier

Barrick goes after Newmont to create $42 billion gold giant

Local volunteers work to improve lives of Guatemalans

Sunnyside Gold says EPA should be recused from leading Silverton Superfund cleanup

Oxbow bird study raises questions about effect of 416 Fire smoke

River Studio Collective hosting three yoga classes for seasonal transitions

Montezuma-Cortez comes back to beat Alamosa for district title

MCHS girls fall just short in IML contest for third place

Bill to limit plastic straws fails in committee

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