La Plata County News

Here in New Mexico it's hard to get an H1N1 flu vaccine. State officials say it's because the vaccine has been trickling in to hospitals and health centers.

A new parallel taxiway extension at the Durango-La Plata County Airport will be officially opened at 3 p.m. Thursday.

On November 16, Joelle Riddle filed her federal lawsuit against the Colorado law that makes it impossible for her to run for re-election as an independent candidate in 2010.

Colorado has fined a Western Slope mining company $7,000 for using a banned road near a La Plata County gold mine.

The Colorado Master Gardener program in Pagosa Springs will be taking applications for the 2010 course, beginning in January and running through April.

Weld County consumers are living proof of the recession, as sales taxes collected for cars, building materials and restaurants contracted in the second quarter of the year.

Food Preservation can be risky business! Some home canners across the nation continue to use unsafe and not recommended methods.

The death of a La Plata County female in her mid-20s was associated with H1N1 flu.

The Pine River Times, which announced last week that it was shutting down, has received interest from possible investors and buyers and will continue publishing.

An elk reserve on state-owned property in southwest Colorado is getting critics who say the Elk Research Institute is more concerned with attracting wealthy hunters than saving elk from chronic wasting disease.

Two long-running weekly newspapers, the Pine River Times, based in Bayfield, and the Berthoud Recorder, are calling it quits.

IGNACIO Members of public and private sectors gathered Oct. 14 for the 3rd Annual La Plata Economic Development Action Partnership, or LEAD, Economic Summit at Sky Ute Casino & Resort.

The Enterprise Zone Program, Colorado's main incentive for attracting businesses, will be re-evaluated this spring by the state's General Assembly as the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, or OEDIT, and the Economic Development Commission present recommendations on it.

Transition to Clean Energy: bumps along the road for natural gas. Around the country states and local governments are mandating local utilities to purchase more renewable energy power.

By DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press Writer Updated: October 10, 2009, 10:00 AM / The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enough power for the electric meter on the side of the Smiley Building to spin backward.

The Durango-La Plata County Airport reported 14,552 passengers boarded commercial flights in September, a record for the month and a 12.5 percent increase from September 2008.

Michael Malloy, of Chandler Ariz., recently was named regional vice president of the Desert Mountain region for KBS Capital Markets Group, an affiliate of KBS Capital Advisors and KBS Realty Advisors to help it maximize local broker/dealer and registered investment advisor relationships in anticipation of new product and sales growth.

DURANGO As the issue of future economic development in La Plata County comes up in civic and business circles, the question inevitably comes with it: Where will these businesses grow? One option that's been gaining momentum is the Airport Business Park off of County Road 309 the turnoff from Highway 172 that leads to the Durango-La Plata Airport.

DURANGO The Train Smoke Mitigation Task Force advanced in its goal of reducing coal emissions from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad when it recently received $22,000 from the Economic Development Administration to facilitate a design and engineering study for a scrubber recycle project.

A rescue worker says an Ohio student disappeared during a hike near Durango, Colo., this week.