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Cortez receives over $63,000 in insurance in embezzlement case

The Cortez City Council on Tuesday signed off on its insurance company’s offer of $63,000 to cover the amount that is believed to have been embezzled by the city’s former finance director. “That’s...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Plan for tower in Mancos State Park faces backlash from residents

A new 40-foot tower on Jackson Gulch dam at Mancos State Park aims to transmit data from the reservoir to the Mancos Water Conservancy District in real time to reduce water loss. But some residents...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

RMAC announces plan to play fall sports

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division II conference, plans to begin fall sports in 2020. Fall practice will begin Aug. 24 and competition is scheduled to start Sept. 18 for all...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Southern Ute tribe to offer free, communitywide testing

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe will hold its second communitywide testing event Aug. 12 and Aug. 13 to identify any COVID-19 hot spots within the community. The tribe and its partners, International...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Woman arrested for attempted murder, domestic violence

A 41-year-old Durango woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, domestic violence and second-degree assault after an incident last week at a local motel. According to an arrest...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango man battled COVID-19. Now he’s fighting health restrictions

Jaime McMillan just overcame a six-week battle with COVID-19, but he’s worried health restrictions are now more of a menace to individual liberties and commerce than the virus is to public health....

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma County deputy arrested on domestic violence charges

Montezuma County sheriff’s deputy Donnie Mack Brown has been arrested and charged with domestic violence and harassment, according to the Cortez Police Department and 22nd Judicial District...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Polis: ‘I’m calling on Coloradans not to be stupid’

Gov. Jared Polis warned that counties would have to take a stricter approach to public health as coronavirus cases rise across the Front Range, mountains and western Colorado. “Now we are at a...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

COVID-19 Tuesday: Colorado reports 45,314 cases of coronavirus

Tuesday, July 28 The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Montezuma and La Plata counties on Tuesday reported 45,314 cases of COVID-19, including 1,807 deaths statewide. Of the...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Comet Neowise over Cortez

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Monsoonal rain provides float time on Dolores River

Heavy monsoon rains have temporarily revived the boating season on the Dolores River, and improved conditions on McPhee Reservoir. The Dolores River upstream of Dolores surged to 700 cubic feet per...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Suspect arrested in shooting of 2 protesters in Colorado

AURORA — A man at a weekend Colorado protest who shot and wounded two demonstrators after he apparently aimed at a Jeep driving toward protesters has been arrested on suspicion of attempted...

DATE: July 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

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