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La Plata County commissioners on Monday unanimously adopted the 2016 county budget of $104.7 million in expected expenditures, up almost 33 percent from the $78.8 million in 2015. This figure...
DATE: Dec. 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
La Plata County road crews are widening the outward shoulder of Lightner Creek Road (County Road 207) to install a guardrail where a school bus carrying 42 elementary school children rolled down a...
DATE: Dec. 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
How drunk is too drunk? That’s the question jail and medical personnel face before booking intoxicated individuals, and it is one La Plata County jail officials face often. A statistical study...
DATE: Dec. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
When it comes to tarnishing a region’s image in the wake of an environmental disaster, the media can be an accomplice to the disaster itself. The now-famed photograph of the three kayakers afloat...
DATE: Nov. 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
An assessment of the potential environmental impacts of the proposed Durango-La Plata County Airport terminal expansion has begun. Earlier this month, Environmental Protection Agency officials,...
DATE: Nov. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
Students at Fort Lewis College say cheating – whether it’s plagiarism or sharing answers on an exam – occurs with some regularity. Jandrea Fevold, accounting student in the School of Business, said...
DATE: Nov. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education
A recent decline in real estate transactions has some La Plata County brokers questioning whether the residential sales slump in October has anything to do with the mine spill that occurred north...
DATE: Nov. 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
After navigating muddy legal waters, Southern Ute Alternative Energy and La Plata Electric Association came to an accord on the terms for building a solar plant that will power about 10 tribal...
DATE: Nov. 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
For the past few years, a Mancos High School alumnus and local rancher has held a community drawing for a rifle to benefit the Mancos High School football team, but the fundraiser may not be in...
DATE: Nov. 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
La Plata County and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe may have as many as 180 additional days to reach an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency on reimbursement for costs associated with...
DATE: Nov. 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
Durangoans have noticed a new publication appeared this week on the streets. After a year of planning, Ballantine Communications Inc. launched on Thursday a Halloween-focused first issue of DGO, a...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
For the past six years, a remote area of La Plata County has been the playing field for rocket science. Advanced Mobile Propulsion Test (AMPT) set up shop in 2009 on a 2-acre plot of flatland...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
