EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Six years after KRDO13 learned of it and began reporting on it, crews have finished repairs to a half-mile-long drainage ditch that had deteriorated and contributed to local flooding for decades. A month ago, workers completed a five-month project to replace the concrete liner in the ditch that parallels
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials announced Wednesday that they have received funding from a state grant to finance a continued extension of the town’s Creek Walk trail that parallels Manitou Avenue and Fountain Creek. The quarter-of-a-million-dollar award comes from the Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) Revitalizing Main Streets program; it will pay for extending
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The Lewis Palmer boys lacrosse team lost a heartbreaker on Wednesday night. As they fell to Rock Canyon 8-7 in overtime.
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The Coronado girls soccer team beat Adams City 3-1 on Wednesday night. As they advance in the Class 4A playoffs. The Cougars will play Windsor on Saturday.
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The Air Academy girls soccer team defeated Pueblo West 4-1 on Wednesday night. As the Kadets advance in the Class 4A playoffs.
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The Rampart girls soccer team shutout Pueblo County on Wednesday night 3-0.
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The Cheyenne Mountain boys lacrosse team defeated Holy Family 17-7 on Wednesday afternoon in the first round of the Class 4A playoffs. The Red-Tailed Hawks will play Air Academy on Friday.
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) — Roads remained wet in Teller County but not icy and slick as they were Tuesday; light snowflakes fell during the early morning hours Wednesday and intensified at midday. There’s still a lot of plowing activity on sidewalks, neighborhood streets and parking lots, even though much of the accumulated snow continues
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The Pueblo West boys lacrosse team went up against Lutheran in the Class 4A playoffs on Tuesday night. The Cyclones lost 11-6.
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The Cheyenne Mountain girls lacrosse team won their first round Class 4A playoff game against Summit 17-7 on Tuesday afternoon. They will play Golden on Thursday.
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TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — What started as rain and wet roads on US 24 through Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs in El Paso County, turned to blizzard-like conditions southwest of Woodland Park in Teller County. Roads quickly became slushy, then icy as wind-blown snow moved through the area late Tuesday morning and continued through
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — You may tend to think of water main projects as happening only on major streets, such as the current project on Galley Road and another scheduled to start this fall on 8th Street. Actually, however, most of the more than 60,000 linear feet of replaced water mains from Colorado Springs
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The main route to the Manitou Incline and Cog Railway experienced slightly more traffic congestion Monday because of a project to remove several trees that were too close to the street. Manitou officials announced Friday that the downhill (southbound) side of Ruxton Avenue — a narrow corridor on the west
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — During the day, the half-mile of 8th Street between Cimarron Street and Motor City Drive becomes one of the city’s busiest, with more than 30,000 vehicles traveling on it. Get ready for more congestion during the next year. City officials have announced a $12 million, multifaceted project that will make
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many drivers are looking forward to the repaving of six miles of South Nevada Avenue and north Highway 115, a project that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced had officially begun on March 31. So why haven’t we seen any fresh asphalt being applied yet? KRDO 13’s The Road
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On Wednesday night, just three nights after a weekend closure of Marksheffel Road ended, the busy northeast-side corridor will close again for the weekend. This time, a different section will be affected — three-quarters of a mile between Barnes Road and Stetson Hills Boulevard — and start sooner that before.
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The Cheyenne Mountain girls tennis team won a Class 4A regional title on Wednesday. Here are the results: #1 Singles: Alyssa Sadri of Cheyenne Mountain defeated Julia Yuzkiv of Lewis Palmer 6-1 6-2.#2 Singles: Rose Katen of Cheyenne Mountain beat Karlynn Aoki of Lewis Palmer 6-0 6-0.#3 Singles: Sophie Zhou of Cheyenne Mountain defeated Katy Oliger of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Neighbors and drivers eagerly await the day when two major construction projects on the east side of town will be completed, and they’ll no longer have to detour around a road closure or squeeze into two lanes instead of four. The projects currently are affecting Galley Road between Murray and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers were either curious about them or hated them; the metal barriers that closed the westbound right lane of busy Austin Bluffs Parkway between Union Boulevard and Goldenrod Drive. Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) installed them last August to protect workers and traffic during a project to relocate a nearby, above-ground
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A full closure overnight Thursday on north Marksheffel Road will continue between Friday night and Monday morning, as part of an ongoing widening project. The closure was to start at 7 p.m. and end at 5:30 a.m. on Marksheffel between Dublin Boulevard and Stetson Hills Boulevard; that segment will remain
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