Durango’s young mountain bikers bringing home the gold, with seven national titles at last weekend’s USA Cycling Cross Country Championships in Allentown, Penn.
 		  
 
LPEA divvying up $2.5 million in refunds to more than 38,000 customers in Southwest Colorado
 		  
 
Durango’s overtaxed and aromatic wastewater treatment plan being awarded more than $1 million in state funds for much-needed upgrades  
A week of fizzling afternoon monsoons, in which black, menacing clouds roll in but deliver little in the way of precipitation
 
 

Federal funds from offshore drilling, that are earmarked for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, being siphoned off to other areas not related to environmental preservation efforts

  
 
   
A lot of talk but little real change in gun laws or attitudes a year after widespread outrage over the Aurora theatre massacre