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DENVER – One of the most targeted House races in the state lived up to expectations Tuesday night, with the contest between Republican incumbent J. Paul Brown and Democratic challenger Barbara...

DENVER – Colorado voters Tuesday night backed establishing a presidential primary and making it more difficult to amend the state constitution, as part of nine wide-ranging issues that were on the...

DENVER – Republican incumbent Scott Tipton of Cortez was re-elected Tuesday night to the 3rd Congressional District, over a spirited challenge by Democrat Gail Schwartz. What was supposed to be a...

LA PLATA COUNTY – The river gallops past ghost towns and plunges through canyons of quiet before tumbling into the old mining town of Durango. Legend has it that the Spanish christened these waters...

Area Girls on the Run programs will conclude the 2016 season with a 5-kilometer run in Durango on Saturday. The program, for third-through eighth-grade girls, started in 2000 in North Carolina and...

Kirk Archibeque and the Polish basketball team PGE Turow have gotten off to a hot start to begin their 2016-2017 campaign. The team is currently 4-2 and third in the Tauron Basket Liga standings....

Two juveniles’ deaths in recent weeks, one from Cortez and one from Dolores, are being investigated as probable suicides, according to the Montezuma County sheriff’s office.One death occurred in...

Tuesday is Election Day.It’s too late to mail ballots, so they must be dropped off at either the Montezuma County Clerk and Recorder’s office, the Dolores Public Library, or the Mancos Public...

Audiences will be transported back in time and to outer space with Montezuma-Cortez High School drama department’s production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” this month. The M-CHS version of the...