The first case of West Nile virus in La Plata County in 2025 was reported to La Plata County Public Health Department in July ...

LA PLATA COUNTY, Colo. — Evacuations have been lifted for one of the two wildfires that started Saturday in La Plata County ...

The first human case of West Nile virus in La Plata County was reported to the La Plata County Health Department in July, ...

Kathi Arnold was doing chores around her log house Saturday afternoon on County Road 318 when a neighbor called her, warning ...

Colorado officials issued evacuation orders for some residents in La Plata County on Saturday due to two wildfires burning in ...

Edward Aber resigned last year while being investigated for sexual harassment of his colleagues and unlawful sexual contact ...

Two women were killed over the weekend in a head-on crash in La Plata. The La Plata Police Department said the crash happened ...

Tucked behind Durango-La Plata County Airport lies the Durango Airtanker base – a hot swath of asphalt that for the past ...

In January 2021, La Plata County Court Judge Anne K. Woods presided over an emotionally fraught sentencing hearing: Preston Edward Pitcher, a church leader, pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor offenses ...

Five months later, in the original La Plata County case, District Court Judge Suzanne F. Carlson issued an order once again confirming the county's legal land-use authority applied.

He won in a blue wave election year for Colorado, earning about 4,000 more votes in La Plata County than his opponent. (He lost neighboring Montezuma, Colorado’s only other orphan county.) In March, ...