Durango News

The Montrose City Council is meeting tomorrow to consider a permanent ban on the retail marijuana sales.

A computer screen e-book titles available for check out at a library in Durango, Colo.

Starting next fall, Southwest Colorado Community Collegex2019s regional law enforcement academy will base operations at the x201cWest Campusx201d between Mancos and Cortez.

In this April 17, 2013 file photo, Gus, walks across the catwalk near Durango, Colo.

Every weekday morning, Jeff Hensley leaves his home in Aztec and joins thousands of other commuters heading north on U.S. Highway 550 toward Colorado, where he works as a customer-service manager at Stoneage Waterblast Tools.

The issue came up because the family of tragic rapper Sonny Santiago, 23, planned to have a song lyric with a four-letter word chiseled on his epitaph.

A cat named Teddy Bear ascends the spiral stairway on the tree outside his owners' second-floor condo.

Dionne Viosca, of Metairie, says our recent police blotter stories "brought back a hilarious 'best of the blotter' memory for my husband and me.

California photographer Craig Semetko's latest project, "America: E Pluribus Unum," features photos taken across the United States during a 45,000-mile road trip.

Then, at a special meeting Monday, the town board voted unanimously for a six-month moratorium on commercial businesses more than 5,000 square feet.

Sam Green/Cortez Journal Dolores town manager Ryan Mahoney and Mayor Val Truelsen, right, discuss ideas at a preliminary meeting regarding a trail from Dolores to the House Creek campground.

COURTESY PHOTO Craig Stoffel's initial sign designs were criticized for looking generic and "national park-ish." The revisions feature more local touches.

A proposal to open Lake Nighthorse to boaters is worrying a San Juan County water rights group.

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Jordan Burnham is pictured above discussing his survival of a nine story fall and suicide attempt at "Fresh Check Day." The event also included tents and booths that offered students information about mental health services Saturday.

The recession forced parents and teens to cut back on spending for the annual high school dance, but wallets are finally opening again.

Comfy couch cushions: Fifteen-year-old Iselin Rose Borch, one of the young survivors of the 2011 Utoya Island massacre in Norway, relaxes at home in Grong, Norway, with her pet dogs.

Investigators had returned to the reservoir this week hoping they could get a better look at the area now that the snow has melted.

"Our" legislators recently passed SB 243 with the Halliburton / EIM amendment intact.

The concert, "Bach and Beatlemania," starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo.