Empire Electric Association is reporting an active scam in the company’s service territory, according to a notice on the company’s website. A person pretending to work for Empire Electric i...

Area Girls on the Run programs will conclude the 2016 season with a 5-kilometer run in Durango on Saturday. The program, for third-through eighth-grade girls, started in 2000 in North Carol...

Kirk Archibeque and the Polish basketball team PGE Turow have gotten off to a hot start to begin their 2016-2017 campaign. The team is currently 4-2 and third in the Tauron Basket Liga stan...

We have a good thing going in Mancos. It is our library. From the point of view of the Mancos Valley Historical Society, it is part of our organizational prosperity. Our group regularly use...

We were greatly troubled to learn of another suicide of a young girl in the county. As survivors of a son’s suicide, we extend sympathy to all the survivors. We urge everyone who is close to them to p...

Seven white men were acquitted of endangering visitors and staff during their 41-day armed takeover of the Maleur National Wildlife Refuge. Contrast that verdict to the killings by law enfo...

I disagree with your comments and praise for Ellen Roberts (Journal, Oct. 25.) Though I’m sure she did a great job, she knew going into it when she ran for office. It’s very se...

In a county pasture awash in late fall sunlight and surrounded by the distant La Plata Mountains, Chad Moore ambles on horseback through a herd of slow-moving cattle. With the herd owner, S...

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