Pueblo West vs. Lutheran
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 wins their first round playoff game
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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Strong spring snowstorm hits Divide, Teller County hard Tuesday
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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Water main projects in Colorado Springs: Coming to your neighborhood soon?
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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Tree removal project Monday beiefly slowed traffic on busy Ruxton Avenue in Manitou Springs
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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Yearlong improvement project starts soon on north end of 8th Street in southwest Colorado Springs. But how will Cimarron Street, I-25 be affected?
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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CDOT explains why paving scheduled to start a month ago in south Colorado Springs hasn’t happened yet
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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Get ready for second round of overnight closures on Marksheffel Road in Colorado Springs
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 wins Class 4A regional championship
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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UPDATE: Work continues in second year of two infrastructure projects on Galley Road in Colorado Springs
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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Metal barriers that closed lane of Austin Bluffs Parkway in Colorado Springs for 8 months are gone
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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Part of Marksheffel Road in Colorado Springs to close next two weekends
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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Fountain erosion project nearly finished but section of Southmoor Drive to remain closed for near future
FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — The threat of severe erosion along Fountain Creek led officials to close a section of a neighborhood street five years ago; now, neighbors wonder if the expected completion of a $6.2 million mitigation project will lead to the street’s reopening soon. The Fountain Creek Watershed District (FCWD) has overseen the project
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CDOT crews performing cleaning operations on Interstate 25 in Pueblo this week
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — We often hear of highways being built, repaired or repaved but we hear less often about efforts to keep highways clean and free of debris. This week, however, we can see cleaning operations along seven miles of I-25 in Pueblo, with Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) crews using a street-sweeping machine
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Start of improvement project on Dublin Boulevard in Colorado Springs delayed
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers bracing for two nights of closures this week on busy Dublin Boulevard near the Peterson Road intersection received an unexpected break. City officials announced in a Monday afternoon release that they were postponing the $15 million Dublin Improvements project for two weeks, until early next month; no reason was
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Ellicott Highway at Brackett Creek crossing closing Monday for flood damage repair
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — On Monday, for the second time in a week, officials have closed a road at a creek crossing to repair damage caused by flooding in June 2023. The closure became effective just before 8 a.m. It’s a situation that KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior has been following since repairs
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Paving of Medal of Honor Boulevard underway in Pueblo County
PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Residents in Pueblo West can now see tangible progress in the long-conceived plan to build a road connecting this community to the west end of Pueblo. Looking east at the intersection of Joe Martinez Boulevard and Purcell Boulevard, a path of blacktop winds through 2,300 acres of the Honor Farm
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Yearlong corridor improvement project on south of downtown Colorado Springs nears end
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The overnight Wednesday closure of three blocks of Motor Way is a sign that the corridor and safety improvement project near Interstate 25, along South Nevada Avenue and South Tejon Street, is nearing completion. During the closure between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m., crews installed new street signs and repainted
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Kain Medrano and his NFL Dreams
Kain Medrano knew at a young age that he wanted to play in the NFL, “You get those little sheets that you bring home from elementary schools. What do you want to do when you grow up? Being a NFL player like I have? There’s stuff in my mom scrapbook room,” says NFL hopeful, Kain Medrano. The
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$15 million in improvements coming to US 24, Peterson Road interchange near Colorado Springs
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials said that they’re not sure when the interchange at US 24 and Peterson Road was built, but some longtime residents believe it happened during the 1960s. A much-needed upgrade is planned for the interchange just outside the north gate of Peterson Space Force Base. “To me, it’s been
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