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National Park Service survey finds widespread harassment

Nearly 40 percent of National Park Service employees experienced some form of harassment over a 12-month period, according to long-awaited survey results released by the agency. The survey assessed...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Food hub sets its sights on Southwest Colorado

More locally harvested produce could make it onto plates across La Plata County next fall through a new food hub. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently granted the Durango Regional Food...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA updates on its work since Silverton Superfund declared

SILVERTON – It’s been more than a year since the Superfund site near Silverton was formally declared, and while the cleanup is expected to take years, Environmental Protection Agency officials...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sheriff’s deputy resigned days before he was found dead

A La Plata County Sheriff’s deputy found dead last week was under investigation and resigned from the Sheriff’s Office three days before he was discovered with a gunshot wound in a burning home,...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mesa Verde store pulls out of Cortez welcome center

The Mesa Verde Museum Association bookstore and tour ticket office will close its location at Colorado Welcome Center in Cortez on Oct. 28, and will not reopen at the location next year. The...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Woman who faces deportation seeks sanctuary a second time

DENVER — A Peruvian woman has sought sanctuary for a second time in Colorado rather than board a flight to her native country as ordered by immigration authorities. The American Friends Service...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wildlife make use of $6.5 million highway tunnel

A wildlife underpass completed late last year between Durango and Bayfield has proved to be a well-traveled thoroughfare for coyote, raccoons, mule deer and a few humans. A surveillance camera has...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Enviros and San Miguel County sue to protect sage grouse

Three environmental groups, along with San Miguel County, have filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management alleging improper approval of oil and gas lease sales near the threatened...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Deputy is found dead in burning home

The man found dead with a gunshot wound inside his burning home early Friday morning has been identified as Jeremiah Lee, according to Bruce Evans, chief of the Upper Pine River Fire Protection...

DATE: Oct. 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

U.S., states struggle to pay firefighting costs

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The long and brutal 2017 wildfire season is stressing the state and federal agencies that have to pay for the army of ground crews and machinery required to fight them. The...

DATE: Oct. 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Update: Woman cited after crash sends three to hospital

Three people were transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital after a rear-end collision Friday morning on U.S. Highway 160 east of Cortez. Trooper James Proctor, of the Colorado State Patrol, said...

DATE: Oct. 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Head Start forced to move out of building after asbestos discovered

The Head Start program in Ignacio unexpectedly closed Tuesday, leaving about 95 families scrambling to find day care and other services for their children after the Southern Ute Indian Tribe closed...

DATE: Oct. 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

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