COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Monday is the first day of spring, and with spring comes spring cleaning. But that can mean more than just cleaning your house, it’s also important to keep up with trees and bushes on your property. Spring is the perfect time to get a head start on trimming your yard
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Saturday morning from 10-12:30, the Pikes Peak Business and Education Alliance held an informational expo at Rampart High School to help guide students into arts and design career fields. They partnered with local employers in the Pikes Peak region to provide interested students and their families with more info on
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — With Friday being St. Patrick’s Day, it was a lucky one for hundreds of people seeking to buy pieces of local history nearly a century old. Double Diamond Auctions In an update to a story KRDO reported last month, auctioneers said that they sold every item from two parcels
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — According to Colorado Springs Utilities, crews responded to a reported outage in downtown Colorado Springs affecting more than 600 customers. A utility spokesman said that the outage was first reported around 9:30 a.m.; below is a look at the outage map at 10:20 a.m. Due to the outage, multiple traffic
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Springs Police Department plans to have four extra patrols on duty on Friday and Saturday night to promote and enforce traffic safety for the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Police said that the patrols will focus not only on downtown — where many bars and nightclubs are — but
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CALGARY (CTV Network) — While humans may be starry-eyed about sending people across the solar system to live on Mars one day, the discovery of a “relict glacier” on the red planet could mean that dream is one step closer to reality. Scientists say the “groundbreaking announcement” presented at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science
Continue Reading(CNN) — President Joe Biden could be damned if he saves the banks or damned if he doesn’t. Another major industry intervention to prop up a bank on Thursday — not by the government but under the auspices of the administration — underscored the still grave political peril of the sudden crisis that erupted just over a week ago.
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(CNN) — A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that a temporary block on a portion of a law pushed by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis restricting what can be taught in Florida’s public colleges and universities will remain in place. The three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request
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(CNN) — The fate of nearly 200,000 American students’ education will soon be controlled not by locally elected leaders but by state-appointed managers yet to be named. The Texas Education Agency said it plans to appoint a board of managers to take over the Houston Independent School District — the largest in Texas and the eighth-largest in the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — For the second year in a row, a group called Disabling Barriers has granted nearly a million dollars to a handful of charities in the Pikes Peak region that focus on serving children and young adults with disabilities. The recipients include many well-known nonprofits, like Special Olympics, the ARC, and Goodwill. It also includes some lesser-known groups, including Ainsley’s Angels.
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KRDO Newschannel 13 Sports Director Rob Namnoum gives you a guide on the eight teams who will be playing in the Men’s NCAA basketball tournament beginning on Friday.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — An intersection known for flash flooding and rescues for decades, will finally be addressed as part of an agreement finalized this week between city officials and El Paso County officials. The troubled intersection is at Siferd Boulevard and Date Street, just north of the busy Academy Boulevard/Austin Bluffs Parkway intersection,
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DENVER, Colo. (KRDO)– Dozens of farmers across the Front Range are installing surveillance systems after a series of horse-farm-related thefts. According to our partners at 9news, most of the thefts have been from vehicles of people who had parked at farms or who were riding or tending to their horses. In some cases, farmers have
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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials revealed Wednesday that workers have finished a third of the project to build a $56 million facility for cadet education and research on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Air Force Academy The Academy broke ground last summer on the Madera Cyber Innovation Center in summer 2021; the project
Continue Reading(CNN) — A federal judge in Texas will consider at a high-stakes hearing on Wednesday whether he should block the US government’s approval of the drug used for medication abortions. The case, brought by anti-abortion doctors and medical associations, is arguably the most significant legal dispute concerning abortion since the Supreme Court ended nationwide abortion protections with its overturning
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The Colorado College hockey team will play their rival Denver in the NCHC Frozen Faceoff in St. Paul, Minnesota on Friday. If the Tigers win the NCHC conference tournament, they would earn an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament.
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The Air Force football team thinks about their service academy rivals, Army and Navy even during spring football.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Americans could be wasting up to $319 per year on unused gym memberships they haven’t yet canceled, according to new research by MyProtein. The report includes a survey from 500+ U.S. residents at the start of 2022 and shows how many people chose to join a gym or fitness studio at
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EADS, Colo. (KRDO)– The Sand Creek Massacre Foundation received an Inclusive Storytelling grant from the National Park Foundation to help educate and honor the legacy of the Sand Creek Massacre. The program helps to “ensure more complete historical narratives are present and accessible across national parks.” The grant will be used to fund projects such
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) said changing the clocks for Daylight Savings Time is also a good reminder to check the batteries in smoke alarms. CSFD CSFD said working smoke alarms save lives: Make sure you have a working smoke alarm on every level of your home and in each sleeping
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