Durango Transit gets national recognition

Durango Transit may look different in the next few years if service cuts or fare hikes are needed to balance the budget, but for now, it’s among the three best in the nation for outstanding rural...

DATE: Oct. 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Solar car to cruise Durango streets for a couple of weeks

Team Energy Audacity may have come in last in the Solar Car Challenge, but the two teenagers’ grit in the face of obstacles and the lessons they learned make them winners nonetheless. Recent Animas...

DATE: July 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

CDOT’s force behind Road to Nowhere resigning

When longtime employees retire, they usually impart words of wisdom or tricks of the trade to their successors. For retiring Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Nancy Shanks, she...

DATE: April 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wonder when your streets will be cleaned?

Street sweepers are starting runs in Cortez, picking up sand and salt from the winter months. In the spring, sweeper operators clean streets around town as needed, focusing on downtown areas and...

DATE: March 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

I-70 snow tire bill dies in Colorado Senate

DENVER – Colorado drivers won’t need snow tires or chains in the trunk to drive into the mountains next winter. A bill to require adequate tire traction from October to May through the Rocky...

DATE: March 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Transit revenue likely to slide

To keep Durango Transit running, the Durango City Council might cut service, increase fares and ask voters to reallocate sales taxes. State and federal grants that have kept the department running...

DATE: March 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

OHV bill in Colorado appears headed for approval

DENVER – A measure that would allow off-highway vehicles on county roads drove past another hurdle Tuesday in the Colorado Legislature, and is likely to survive – which would end more than seven...

DATE: March 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado Legislature’s slow-moving traffic bill dies

DENVER – Legislation that would have required slow-moving traffic on two-lane mountain highways to pull over has crashed and died. Senate Bill 18 would have required drivers on two-lane highways –...

DATE: Feb. 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bill aims to clear slow-moving traffic on mountain highways

DENVER – A Colorado state senator believes he has the solution to frustrating slow-moving traffic on two-lane mountain highways.But Sen. Mike Merrifield, D-Colorado Springs, must first steer his...

DATE: Jan. 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Briefs

Main Street Bridge endorsed for funding A special highway committee has recommended that Mancos receive more than $1 million to help fund the replacement of the Main Street Bridge. The proposal is...

DATE: Jan. 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Montezuma-Cortez district warned of aging bus fleet

More than half the buses used daily to shuttle students to Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 schools have more than a quarter-million miles on the odometer. “There’s going to come a day that we can’t pick...

DATE: Dec. 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

State putting $100M in bicycling

DENVER – The state will pump $100 million over the next four years into bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure in an effort to make Colorado the best state to ride a bike. “Our goal is to make...

DATE: Sept. 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

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