COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A portion of southbound South Academy Boulevard remained closed Friday morning as crews finished repairs to a water main break confirmed by Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU). The break prompted a closure of southbound Academy between Hancock Expressway and Drennan Road; only one northbound lane is open from Drennan to Jet
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“When he says he’s ready to play, he’s gonna play,” says Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar. There you have it. If all goes well, the Captain Gabe Landeskog, will be back for the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Avs think he’ll fit right in, “He’s a gifted player. He’s been on the ice a lot.
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) $114 million construction project has transformed the east side of the interchange at Interstate 25 and US 50 East and is being closely watched by many longtime residents. “I’m liking what I’m seeing,” said James Tafoya, a Pueblo native. “I haven’t noticed any traffic impacts.
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — As many as five streets will be repaved or resurfaced in projects scheduled for this spring and summer, officials announced this week. A target for much of the work is Fountain Mesa Road, where two half-mile segments will receive attention from crews: On the north end, between Cross Creek Drive and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials in our local governments and departments encourage us to report potholes that we see, as soon as possible — because the sooner we do, the sooner they can be prioritized and filled. “They can’t repair them if they don’t know about them,” said Sam Sprott, of Colorado Springs, who
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The CSU Pueblo softball team swept a doubleheader from UCCS on Monday afternoon. As the Thunderwolves won game one 9-8 and game two 8-4. As the Pack completed the weekend sweep of the Mountain Lions.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management (PPROEM) is starting the process of updating its hazardous mitigation plan to prepare for, and recover from, disasters such as floods and wildfires. The PPROEM formed in 2019 to consolidate emergency management functions by the El Paso County and eight municipalities under
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews have been busy since December working on and around roads in three areas that sustained extensive erosion damage from flooding after heavy rain in June 2023. Repairs started late in the year when the risk of rain that could cause more flooding is low, and the county hopes
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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) – 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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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Snow that fell overnight Tuesday may create more of a muddy mess on Glider Loop that neighbors said they’ve dealt with since last fall. Around a dozen homes are along the mile-long, circular, unpaved road that connects to Vollmer Road, just south of Black Forest. Neighbors contacted KRDO 13’s
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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) — 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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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) — 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) – 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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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — KRDO13’s The Road Warrior continues to follow the process of repairing a two-mile stretch of Myers Road in the Hanover community southeast of Fountain. A month ago, the segment between Peyton Highway and Finch Road literally fell apart after weather extremes that ranged from snow and sub-zero cold to
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Town officials are currently accepting contractor bids for repaving fore than a dozen streets this summer. Officials said that the bidding process closes in two weeks and they will then decide who gets the paving contract. One of the worst — and longest stretches — are four blocks of Sutherland
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