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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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – As Tejon Street in Downtown Colorado Springs falls under construction this week through September, the City is looking to revitalize its busiest downtown roadway. Business owners, however, are worried about the impact the work will have on their busiest season of the year. Phase One of the project began Monday
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Colorado Springs police and El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating a string of armed robberies Tuesday morning. There were no reported injuries. According to police, officers responded to a robbery alarm at a business in the 5300 block of Airport Road. Police say that three armed male suspects
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Emergency responders in the air will no longer be jetting around in bright orange helicopters, according to CommonSpirit Health. The organization’s mountain region announced that they are undergoing a rebrand, which will change the color of their helicopters, ambulances, and fixed-wing aircraft. Those will soon be redesigned to be purple,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says they’ve arrested a man for a robbery where he allegedly used a “finger gun” to rob a store. Police say they were called out late Sunday evening to a store off North Newport Road for a robbery. When they got there, they learned
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Just before 1:00 on Sunday morning Colorado Springs Police responded to Oro Blanco Drive, in the northeast part of the city, after a caller reported hearing multiple explosions. Once at the scene, officers located a small grass fire which the fire department extinguished. After a further search, officers found 20
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)- On Saturday, dozens of protesters and counter-protesters showed up at the Tesla showroom in Colorado Springs to express their frustration against Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and leader of DOGE. Saturday was the fifth week that Tesla Takedown protests have taken place around the country. Jennifer Mullins was one of many protesters, she
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Firefighters in the Colorado Springs Fire Department were called out to the intersection of Fountain Blvd. and Shasta Dr. to fight a grass fire. Eastbound on Fountain Blvd was limited to one lane while firefighters put out the fire. The fire burned less than one acre in total, causing little
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Downtown Partnership detailed good and bad news in their tenth annual Downtown Report. The good news starts with U.S News and World Report naming Colorado Springs as the third best place to live in America. 824 apartment units opened up in the downtown area alone, and people
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) worked a major call in the 800 block of West Colorado Avenue on Friday afternoon. A large number of officers took to the scene after a suspect, Michael Howard, barricaded himself. CSPD says the Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) came to issue a 2nd-degree felony
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) —We’re learning more about what a water vault is, what it does and the traffic impacts of the $12 million Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) project along Academy Boulevard between Meadowland Boulevard and Flintridge Drive. Academy traffic in the area is down to one lane southbound and two lanes northbound, with all
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Colorado Springs Airport (COS) officials say a private plane had to make an emergency landing at their airport on Friday morning. According to officials, it all happened around 11 a.m. The plane reportedly was experiencing engine issues. COS officials say thankfully the landing was successful. The plane was able to
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – For a third time in 2025, the El Paso County Health Department told a local restaurant to close last week, due to the number of violations found. However, unlike the two previous cases when the restaurants reopened the following day, Camin Thai Cuisine remained closed for several more days
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – They say you can’t polish a turd, but a shiny new award is proving the old adage wrong. Peak Vista at Wahsatch has been awarded a “Golden Poop” award for excellence in colorectal cancer screenings. According to Peak Vista, the location had the highest screening rate for the disease, with
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews are taking advantage of spring break for Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 by starting a three-week effort to perform maintenance on two bridges in the area. Work began Wednesday on the Cresta Road bridge over Cheyenne Creek, at the intersection of Cresta and Cheyenne Roads, near The Broadmoor in
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LONDON (KRDO) – A Colorado Springs mom who is accused of killing her two kids is appealing a ruling that would allow her to be extradited back to the United States, according to our partners at 9News. Kimberlee Singler fled Colorado Springs after allegedly killing her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son. RELATED: Autopsy reports reveal
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