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Towaoc man is in critical condition after shooting

New Year’s Eve shooting investigated by feds

DATE: Jan 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez, Mancos students could benefit from new state test

State also seeks faster results

DATE: Jan 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez board seeks to restart Montezuma Historic District

Preservation board struggles to move project forward

DATE: Jan 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Woman meets law officers in two break-in attempts

Arrested twice in break-ins at officers’ homes

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Longtime Dolores doctor retires amid state inquiry

State medical board raised concerns about prescriptions

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Here’s where Obama drew the line on Bears Ears Monument

Concessions on Bears Ears Monument are unlikely to appease ardent opponents

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

City signs lease for Lake Nighthorse

The Durango City Council approved a long-awaited lease Tuesday that will allow the city to manage recreation at Lake Nighthorse. “We have been waiting for this to be on the agenda...

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

House Republicans want to repeal the ESA

Utah’s Bishop says he’d rather scrap the Endangered Species Act

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Keeping in Touch: New York professor arrives for workshop

By Mac Neely Kelly Horrigan, professor of fashion and education at Pratt Institute of Art in New York, has arrived to teach a jewelry workshop for the School of the West. ...

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ancient Chaco Canyon inhabitants relied on imported food

Dry, salty conditions prevented agriculture

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

H.B. ‘Squire’ Wallace, ‘The Human Lead Mine’

H.B. Wallace, better known as “Squire’ Wallace, died at Dolores, Colorado. He was a pioneer cattleman in Southwest Colorado and probably carried more lead in his body that any other human be...

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Reconciling two views of a Hopi massacre

In “Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre,” historian James F. Brooks takes an in-depth look at the destruction of a large Hopi village by neighboring Hopis in 1700. In the fir...

DATE: Jan 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News