PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The Steel City recently received approval for its request for federal and state funding to upgrade its fleet of transit buses that provide transportation to nearly a million riders annually. Officials announced the approval late last week, hailing it as the second-largest grant award in city history. Pueblo requested nearly $4
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Just before 10:30 a.m. Thursday, the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) reopened the intersection of Stetson Hills Boulevard and Marksheffel Road after a truck slid off the road and crashed into a townhome. Our crews on scene shared images of what appeared to be a work truck that had driven
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MONUMENT, Colo. (KRDO) — Snow continued to fall steadily in the Monument area of northern El Paso County, as of noon Wednesday. Traffic on I-25 began to accumulate, although conditions were generally slushy, and traffic on Monument Hill began to slow. Drivers may find more snow-packed and icy conditions on Highway 105 through Monument. The
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s fairly common to see areas along abandoned railroad tracks converted to recreational trails, but changing an existing road to a trail seems a bit more unusual. But that’s a proposal by the Fountain Mutual Metro District, an entity that oversees stormwater management and parks/recreation in the area north
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The snow that fell overnight Sunday didn’t delay a project to make upgrades to a pair of left-turn lanes between two shopping areas along a busy road in Falcon. Officials have closed the northbound turn lane into a Walmart shopping center, and the southbound turn lane into a McDonald’s
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Snow that was expected but didn’t fall a week ago, did fall overnight Sunday in the area’s first significant widespread accumulation of the season. As of 6 a.m. Monday, Interstate 25 between downtown Colorado Springs and Monument was mostly wet as crews from the Colorado Department of Transportation sprayed
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The slumping economy, the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the increase in online buying have gradually lessened the crush of shoppers at stores on Black Friday. While lines of buyers failed to develop at traditional places such as Walmart and Best Buy, some lines formed outside Target, JC Penney,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — First, the good news: Repaving and other improvements along one of the area’s busiest corridors have now become a higher priority. The bad news, however, is that 2028 is the earliest that work will happen. Most drivers are familiar with the poor condition of the Fountain Expressway, and the east
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — The town’s paving season ended only a few weeks ago, but officials are already working on one of two projects on North 9th Street to prepare for repaving next year. 9th Street extends across the city from north to south, connecting to downtown, US 50, and the Arkansas River. Crews
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The county is now a week into a major drainage project that will eventually allow crumbling pavement at a busy intersection to be repaved. Numerous viewers have complained to KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior for the past year about the poor condition of North Gate Boulevard at Struthers Road;
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers, businesses, and neighbors along the east end of Main Street will get a pleasant holiday present: the completion of a natural gas line relocation that closed several blocks of the street for months at a time. The project, which started early last year, has affected several blocks at the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) clarified a KRDO 13 report on Friday regarding scheduled overnight median work on a mile-long stretch of Powers Boulevard on the east side of the city. An alert posted on a map on CoTrip.org’s website stated that two left lanes northbound and southbound overnight
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — While many people awoke disappointed at the lack of snow in the Pikes Peak region on Friday morning, others were relieved that they had no slick roads to deal with during rush hour. Drivers found either damp or dry pavement along Interstate 25 between Colorado Springs and Monument, with
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Five years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, county officials began courting high school graduates to offset worker shortages that limited how much snowplowing and other public works tasks could be done. That effort appears to be a growing success. The county’s CONNECT program periodically invites students
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PUEBLO WEST, Colo. (KRDO) — The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) is searching for the suspect in an apparent stabbing late Tuesday night that is now a homicide investigation. Authorities said that they know who the suspect is, but they haven’t released the name of the suspect. On Wednesday afternoon, the coroner’s office identified the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — To the concrete and asphalt used in widening and upgrading sidewalks along two blocks in the heart of downtown, you can include a natural resource. Trees. This week, workers began planting 38 trees along Tejon Street between Colorado Avenue and Kiowa Street. As of early Wednesday morning, six of 18
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews are three months into a $12.7 million project to eventually close a railroad crossing at the intersection of Las Vegas and Royer streets and replace it with an access road and a new crossing. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior first reported on the plan in late August. Crews are
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many viewers have asked why work hasn’t continued this year on the project to improve two miles of South Academy Boulevard between Fountain Boulevard and Jet Wing Drive. Preliminary construction began early last year and was initially delayed until this fall, but officials last week announced that work will continue
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Work to modify center medians and reduce left turns enters its second month on Garden of the Gods Road between Interstate 25 and Chestnut Street. City officials hope to reduce crashes and injuries from drivers who try to cross six lanes of traffic while making left turns across the busy
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials held a ceremony late Thursday morning to celebrate the opening of the new westbound bridges on South Circle Drive. Westbound traffic is still using the two old bridges, which will be demolished eventually; traffic on the two eastbound bridges opened last year. Officials said that the westbound bridges won’t
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