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DENVER – The state Legislature’s Joint Technology Committee met Tuesday to hear about the technological developments that may help Colorado’s growing elderly population age.The presentation covered...

What if there were an outbreak of a deadly, highly contagious disease in Montezuma County? Getting life-saving treatment would be the first priority. So to test the logistics of distributing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – State and federal mine cleanup programs have had a difficult time making headway because the projects are so costly. U.S. House members gathered last week to discuss the...

Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 School District officials have issued a stop-work order on the retired high school demolition project after a report that a contractor on the project has been dumping...

Kevin Abeyta, a life-long Durango man and co-owner of a Mexican restaurant that opened earlier this year in the Main Mall, died in Wednesday’s apartment complex fire, according to family and...

The Cortez city council voted Tuesday to send a letter to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior asking that no changes be made to the national monument designation of Canyons of the Ancients. The...

A deadly fire claimed one man’s life, sent three residents to the hospital and displaced several others early Wednesday at the Tercero Townhouse units in west Durango.Authorities have not...

A Cortez man was found guilty of menacing and reckless endangerment charges in Montezuma District Court on Thursday. Ruben Duran, 33, was on trial this week before District Court Judge Douglas...

Firefighters responded to four small brush fires within a quarter mile of each other along U.S. Highway 491 south of Cortez on Wednesday morning. The fires were all doused within an hour, and there...

Thousands of dollars worth of Native American artifacts were recently stolen from a Durango storage facility, said longtime Durango resident and former archaeologist Branson Reynolds. “I can’t...

McPhee Reservoir managers said on Tuesday that they will continue to release boatable flows into the Lower Dolores River until at least 10 a.m. Thursday, June 15. Flows of no less than 800 cubic...