Beautifying a brown town

Landscaping design firm releases draft plan for Broadway, as a first step

Sunday lecture topic is Puebloan astronomy

On Sunday, May 5, at 1 p.m. at the Anasazi Heritage Center near Dolores, the Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society and the Bureau of Land Management will present, as part...

House sends pot tax to state Senate

DENVER - Now that marijuana possession is legal in Colorado, the decision over how to tax it is falling into familiar patterns. The House on Tuesday voted along party lines, 37 De...

State's farmers hope feds will legalize hemp crops

DENVER - Voter approval of legalized marijuana last November caused a national celebration among pot aficionados, but it is also drawing an enthusiastic reaction from Colorado farm country. ...

Gas break shuts down Main

Main Street traffic was rerouted for about 90 minutes Tuesday afternoon after a gas line snapped at the Holiday Inn Express. No injuries were reported, and the hotel was not evacu...

Pet of the week

Gas break shuts down Main

Main Street traffic was rerouted for about 90 minutes Tuesday afternoon after a gas line snapped at the Holiday Inn Express. No injuries were reported, and the hotel was not evacu...

BLM, Forest Service endorse San Juan wilderness bill

WASHINGTON — Officials from the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service endorsed Sen. Mark Udall’s San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act in a Senate hearing Thursday, but the Fores...

Celebrating trees

Dems falter in push to add gas and oil laws

DENVER – House Democrats have accepted partial defeat in their drive to crack down on the gas and oil industry. They are poised to pass bills that increase fines for pollution and...

Health check

New staff writer at Journal

Veteran reporter Jim Mimiaga has joined the Journal newsroom as a staff writer. After graduating from Fort Lewis College with a degree in political science, he worked as a reporter for the C...