SOUTHERN COLORADO (KRDO) — The Colorado State Patrol (CSP) said that there were “numerous” crashes during the heavy, wet snowfall Thursday morning. A CSP sergeant said that most of the accidents occurred on highways, and drivers either slipped off the road or hit other vehicles. “There were a few two-car and three-car collisions,” he said.
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The Colorado College hockey team has ten games remaining. The Tigers will host Western Michigan this weekend. The Broncos are the top team in the NCHC and are ranked third in the country.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The best way to describe the rate of traffic fatalities across the state, is: Better, but still not good. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) released 2024 statistics Tuesday, revealing that 684 people died on streets, roads and highways — a 5% drop from 2023. “Speeding and impaired driving are
Continue ReadingThe CSU Pueblo women’s basketball team will host Colorado Mesa on Thursday night. The Wolfpack are nine and one this season at home. A win on Thursday will help the Thunderwolves move into a first place tie in the RMAC.
Continue ReadingENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos Foundation, in partnership with Riddell and the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA), has launched ALL IN. ALL COVERED., an unprecedented initiative distributing more than 15,000 new Riddell Axiom smart helmets at no cost to every high school tackle football program in Colorado. The single largest philanthropic investment in Broncos history, ALL
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) finished repairing a broken water line Monday, after several weeks of delays and concerns expressed by neighbors and drivers. But CSU revealed that it has taken steps to prevent similar issues in the future. CSU said that a water line to a fire hydrant was leaking
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Interquest Parkway corridor on the city’s north end normally has heavy traffic, but congestion has increased with the construction of the Colorado Springs Fire Department’s Station 24. Workers are building the station at the intersection of Interquest and New Life Drive — which is near the entrance to Pikes
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers running errands or traveling Saturday through the south end of South Academy Boulevard will have to detour around a day-long southbound closure between Bradley Road and Highway 85/87. The closure, from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m., allows crews to move safety barriers into place for improvement work on
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – If someone told you that driving on bad roads and bridges was costing you $2,610 annually, would you believe it? That’s the assertion in a new study released Wednesday by TRIP, a nonprofit transportation research group based in Washington, D.C. The study — “Keeping Colorado Mobile: Meeting the State’s Need
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Broncos fans big and small lined up to see former Broncos great Ed McCaffrey. They like him and his mustard; he still has that effect on the fans. “I am just absolutely blown away with how many Broncos fans are excited to visit with me, share old stories, and our
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO13) — City officials spoke Wednesday about installing safety signals at four new school zones. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior reported on a similar installation last summer at Pine Creek High School. The new locations are: Rampart High School – along Union and Lexington Mitchell High School – along Galley and Murray
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The Cheyenne Mountain high school hockey team defeated Colorado Springs District 11 5-1 on Tuesday night at Robson Arena.
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The Colorado College hockey team will leave Thursday for Tempe, Arizona. The Tigers will play a weekend series against the top team in the NCHC Arizona State.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials regularly get requests from citizens to repave gravel roads which comprise half of the county’s overall road network. But doing that on a wide scale would be too expensive, so officials devote resources to repairing, maintaining and preserving existing gravel roads. One of those resources is the same
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The most slippery driving on a bitterly cold Monday morning may have been in the foothills west of Interstate 25, a city public works official said. According to Lance Holmes, a public works supervisor, most of the city’s snow-packed and icy streets were on the west side of town. However,
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Highlights from the finals of the Colorado Springs Metro Wrestling Championships.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many residents will be scrambling over the next two days to ensure that they’re ready for the weekend cold snap that will bring low temperatures of between zero and -10 degrees from Saturday night through Tuesday night. A spokesman for AAA Colorado said Wednesday that all of its member auto
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Officials said that they can use heavy equipment to slice off, or peel off, mud on unpaved gravel roads in rural areas. Jack Ladley, the county’s deputy director of public works, recently explained the procedure when responding to complaints of muddy roads after melting snow from November storms left
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Avoiding tragedies like two just before Thanksgiving 2023 at a busy intersection in Falcon is the goal of a road safety committee that formed two years ago and recently met to decide its first steps. Within a week of that holiday, two separate crashes at or near the intersection
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) project that started a year ago to install five miles of new gas pipeline, continues with its second phase Monday. The latest work will require a three-month closure of southbound 31st Street, between Garden of the Gods and Old Colorado City, from Fontanero Street to
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