 06/25/09 Injury victims and the family members of three teenagers who were killed in a car crash in March 2007 near Hesperus will receive $500,000 in an out-of-court settlement with La Plata County's insurance carrier.
 06/18/09 Everyone knows the economy's been a little rocky lately, with many houses going into foreclosure. Th...
06/15/09 Animal Control Sunday 2:59 p.m. Two dogs were fighting in front of an office in the 5800 block of Main Avenue.
06/15/09 When talking to clients about living in Beaufort, I am always interested to learn the various reason...
06/03/09 DENVER - Colorado's coal-bed methane industry will have another year to comply with a state Supreme Court ruling that threatened to grind production to a halt, because of a bill signed by Gov. Bill Ritter on Tuesday.
05/30/09 Looking up, the view Gladys Davies, 82, enjoys from her front yard still looks like it did nearly 60 years ago. Houses, churches, cars and noise all poked up around the family house on 830 Florida Road in what used to be the edge of town, spilling out of a swelling city center.
05/29/09 Gov. Bill Ritter has signed legislation that merges two educational institutions - the Southwest Colorado campus of Pueblo Community College and San Juan Basin Technical College.
05/25/09 The annual Cruiser Criterium - a madcap parade on wheels - went vintage Sunday with the trophy going to the rider of a bike that dates back to Durango's founding.
05/24/09 Milo Etheridge, 6, left, and Jake Burton, 6, of Cub Scout pack 509 from Hesperus look for veterans buried in Greenmount Cemetery to place a flag on their headstones Saturday.
05/20/09 Tenancy at will is a type of informal rental agreement that is similar to a month to month agreement...
 05/11/09 DENVER - Another session of the Colorado Legislature has ended, and just about everyone has cleared the Capitol building.
 05/11/09 A high-elevation hut at the Berthoud Pass Second Creek drainage will have the benefit of domestic water, thanks to a new state law the Grand Huts Associations has been seeing through since 2007.
 05/11/09 Previous Colorado water law made it illegal to capture rooftop precipitation
05/09/09 DENVER - Everything changed at the state Capitol over one week in March.
05/08/09 Controlled burn planned today at Pine Point Weather conditions permitting, a fire crew from the Columbine Public Lands Office will burn a pile of downed woody material today at Pine Point Campground, on the east side of Vallecito Reservoir.
05/07/09 DENVER - Death-penalty opponents fell one vote shy of repealing it Wednesday in the final hours of the 2009 Legislature. House Bill 1342 failed 18-17 in the Senate. Sen. Jim Isgar of Hesperus was among the four Democrats who voted no. All 14 Republicans also voted no.
05/06/09 You can blame me, I had to open my big mouth and talk about the wind last week. It's not like I washed my car, which I did not, but here came the rain which washed out the 6th annual Golfing for Kids with Disabilities Scramble at Hillcrest last Saturday.
 05/06/09 A bill that would have repealed the death penalty and used the savings to fund cold case investigations failed this afternoon in the Senate on a 17-18 vote.
04/28/09 Yvette Chischillie, with M&M Enterprises Inc., thins Gambel oak Monday during fire-mitigation work in the Avery Ranch subdivision west of Hesperus. Below: Chischillie holds two horned lizards she found Monday while thinning trees.
04/21/09 Arrest James M. Beauparlant III, 24, of 10 Commonwealth Ave., was arrested Sunday night on an outstanding warrant for a probation violation. Beauparlant was taken into police custody at 9:10 p.m. Sunday after being spotted in Ed's Mini Mart.
04/21/09 DENVER - The state Su-preme Court has ruled for two Southwest Colorado ranching families who say coal-bed methane drilling has depleted their water supplies.
04/18/09 DENVER - Republican heavyweights are backing Rep. Ellen Roberts to run for the state Senate seat from Southwest Colorado. Cortez Republican Rep. Scott Tipton, who had considered entering the race, said Friday that he would not challenge Roberts, R-Durango, in a primary.
04/15/09 DENVER - An effort to crack down on slow drivers sputtered to a halt Tuesday in the Senate. House Bill 1042 would have required slow vehicles to pull over, when it's safe, if five or more cars had stacked up behind them. Senators voted to kill it Tuesday. | 
