COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers may feel that the safety/improvement project on I-25 between Fillmore Street and Garden of the Gods Road has been going on forever. The $68 millionColorado Department of Transportation (CDOT ) project started in October 2023 — 18 months ago — and is scheduled for completion in mid- to late-2026.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Colorado Springs city officials confirm that first responders are working a rollover crash on northbound I-25 near North Academy Boulevard. Colorado State Patrol says the call came in at 11:21 a.m. The fire department says the people in the car are being transported for medical evaluation. Source: James Davis The
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Editor’s Note: The video in this article is unedited. It may be upsetting to watch and also contains profanity. Viewer discretion is advised. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – KRDO13 has obtained exclusive video showing the moments that led up to a man being shot dead by police in downtown Colorado Springs. On Monday afternoon, Colorado
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – KRDO13 tracked numerous crashes across the northern part of the city, particularly in the Woodmen Road area, after overnight snow led to icy, slick roadways Wednesday morning. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) predicted an at least 13-minute delay in your commute on northbound I-25 if you were passing between
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says that after receiving daily complaints about homeless camps, a massive, first of its kind, citywide cleanup began Wednesday. Police are teaming up with other organizations to try and give homeless people the tools they need for a better life. However, officers say it’s
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A large law enforcement presence can be seen in southeast Colorado Springs near Hancock Expressway and Academy Boulevard. A KRDO13 crew is at the scene, specifically at the cross streets of Astrozon Boulevard and Morley Drive. The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says they have a tactical team serving a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A Colorado Springs couple found a new racing family after the death of their 6-year-old daughter in what the two called a destined encounter. Shaun Romano and Kelsey Donnelly lost Teagan in 2023 to a rare genetic disease. The pair raced the famous Mint 400 in Las Vegas the following
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) recently finished a key phase of the ongoing overpass construction at the intersection of Powers Boulevard and Airport Road, and will start another phase as early as this weekend. Last Sunday night, CDOT closed southbound Powers at Airport overnight to finish placing the last
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A 19-year-old woman is in custody and facing a laundry list of charges after almost sideswiping a state trooper, leading to a high-speed pursuit on I-25 early Monday morning. At around 4 a.m. on March 31, a trooper was conducting a traffic stop on the interstate, just south of Briargate
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says they responded to a shooting call downtown involving at least one of their officers. According to CSPD, they got a call around 2 p.m. about a man who was allegedly breaking into cars and threatening someone with a gun near 21 South Nevada.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Citizens have until the end of April to submit feedback on the city’s new plan to better manage and enforce parking and curbside use; after that, the plan gradually becomes effective over the next four to five years. The plan will affect the city’s two areas of largest parking demand
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Bernice Moorehead has been missing since Oct. 17, 2024. Her daughter, Joanna Phillips, is pleading with the public, urging them to look for her mother. Moorehead was last seen near her home on Chadwick Drive, near South Academy Boulevard. Since then her daughter has heard tidbits from people that
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – After one year of serving the LGBTQ+ community, The Q Lounge is moving forward with a fresh start. “You walked into these doors of the Q, but I’m excited to tell you that you will not be leaving tonight from the Q. Because as of this moment, right here, right
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – On Saturday, the Pikes Peak National Cemetery honored veterans on Vietnam Veterans Day. Veterans and their families gathered at Pikes Peak National Cemetery, where they honored service members with a flag ceremony. The day is a somber time of healing and reflection. It has a special meaning to veterans, like
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Northbound lanes of Union Blvd are shut down at Constitution Ave while Colorado Springs Police sort out a crash between a truck and a motorcycle. Colorado Springs Police Communications first reported the closure at 1:29 p.m. on Saturday, only nine minutes after police say the crash was called in. A
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Tempers flared as protestors and attendees of a GOP event met in Colorado Springs. A car and protester made contact on two different incidents during the protest of Steve Bannon’s GOP speech in Colorado Springs, including a woman who alleges the collision aggravated her hip after a recent procedure. “I
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The future of the North Powers Boulevard extension to Interstate 25 has reached another important step with the full opening of a new bridge on Voyager Parkway. Earlier this week, officials opened all four lanes of traffic on the bridge; it had been down to two lanes after a delayed
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Crews blocked one right lane on westbound Cimarron Street headed towards I-25, due to a boulder that was left in the roadway on Thursday afternoon. It came after the semi allegedly made a tight turn at a narrow intersection, that had multiple boulders on its corner. Crews say a semi
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — What’s commonly considered one of the city’s worst roadway stretches is finally getting some much-needed and long-overdue attention. On Monday, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will start repaving the six-mile corridor between Brookside Street at the south end of Nevada Avenue(a few blocks west of Interstate 25), through the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A month after the permanent closure of the Siferd Boulevard/Date Street intersection, the three-way junction is gone and replaced by a large trench in the ground. Trees along the Templeton Gap Floodway, the drainage channel that often flooded the former intersection in the middle of the channel, have been removed
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