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A damaged boat trailer sparked several small grass fires Saturday on U.S. Highway 491 just south of Pleasant View. Colorado State Patrol Trooper Gary Smith said a wheel bearing on the small boat...

A truck driver who crashed south of Silverton earlier this week, spilling an unknown amount of chemicals along U.S. Highway 550, has been cited with transporting hazardous materials on a route not...

A Towaoc man known for spitting on police officers chose a sentence of 18 months in state prison on Thursday instead of a lighter sentence of supervised probation and possible drug court. Tilden D....

Two La Plata County residents charged with more than 30 counts of animal cruelty had their jury trials reset this week. Jeffery and Elizabeth Jackson were supposed to stand trial in November and...

Phil Weiser, attorney general-elect for Colorado, said he will join La Plata County in its fight to allow DISH and DirecTV to add four major Denver television stations to the programming offerings...

Colorado’s unaffiliated voters turned out for last week’s election in record numbers and turned their backs on Republicans by wide margins, a survey conducted by a GOP polling firm shows. What’s...

In the past year, both the city of Cortez and Four Corners Recycling Initiative have stopped accepting recyclable newspaper in a time of shifting markets and lowered prices for recyclable...

A woman died Friday morning after a fire gutted her home south of Cortez on Thursday night. Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin said the fire call came in at 11:11 p.m. The house, in the 7000...

After removing a mountain lion cub from a private home, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is reminding the public it is illegal to possess wild animals and dangerous to the animals’ health. Although sick...

Charges against five individuals arrested on suspicion of cultivating more than 30 marijuana plants at four locations in Montezuma County and one in Cortez were dismissed on Thursday, but four...

About 40 homeless people camping west of Durango were told Wednesday by the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office they have 48 hours to move. Deputies “tagged” camps and informed campers of the eviction...