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Annual Dolores Spring Banquet is March 30

Bust up the snow-shoveling winter blues at the Dolores Chamber Annual Spring Banquet and Community Celebration Awards Ceremony March 30. The locals’ favorite costume party is held at the Dolores...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

‘Big time’ snowstorm headed to Southwest Colorado

The National Weather Service on Tuesday night announced that a winter storm could dump up to 33 inches of snow on the San Juan Mountains beginning Wednesday night. A storm warning is in effect from...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Update: Backcountry skier found dead in Telluride’s Bear Creek

Search and Rescue and Telluride Ski Patrol have recovered the body of a backcountry skier who was killed in an avalanche Tuesday in the Bear Creek Preserve area in Telluride, according to the San...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mancos marshal speaks about priorities, community values

Justen Goodall, a former Montezuma County patrol deputy, officially assumed the post of Mancos marshal on Feb. 1. He replaces former Marshal Jason Spruell, who announced his resignation in October...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

State House passes controversial sex education bill

DENVER – The Colorado State House passed a bill Tuesday that will expand sexual education requirements in public schools and ensure that abstinence-only programs are banned. House Bill 1032, which...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Body, blood found on County Road 201

A snowplow driver found blood Monday near an abandoned vehicle at the end of Country Road 201, north of Durango, prompting a police investigation that turned up a body, the La Plata County...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Harvey Weinstein and a broken promise in Indian Country

If all had gone according to plan, nearly every time someone were to watch Wind River, a 2017 film about the death of a Northern Arapaho woman on the Wind River Reservation, the National...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez angler takes world fishing records

A Cortez fisherwoman has just earned two world records for trout she caught at Groundhog Reservoir this past summer. Kelly Jo Hall, who works with Intermountain Wall Systems, Inc., has been fishing...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bill aims to lower state health exchange costs by 30 percent

A bill pending in the Colorado Legislature could lower insurance premiums for those who purchase insurance through the state health exchange. In La Plata County, about 3,000 people purchased...

DATE: Feb. 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Monday storm brings dangerous road conditions, crashes

Snow arrived in force Monday in Southwest Colorado, bringing avalanches at Telluride, chain laws on mountain passes, crashes on highways and delays at the Durango-La Plata County Airport. The...

DATE: Feb. 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Storm plays havoc with roads, triggers avalanches at Telluride

Snow arrived as expected Monday in Southwest Colorado, setting off avalanches at Telluride, chain laws on mountain passes, treacherous driving conditions and delays at the Durango-La Plata County...

DATE: Feb. 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

How much snowpack will make it to reservoirs?

Southwest Colorado’s snowpack is right on track with historic averages, a far cry from last year, but all that potential water may not make it into the region’s needy reservoirs. A number of...

DATE: Feb. 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

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