EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — After months of discussion and many concerns expressed by opposing neighbors, the Briargate Parkway-Stapleton Road Transportation Corridor plan passed by a unanimous vote of the county Planning Commission. KRDO As KRDO reported previously, the plan will extend Briargate east more than four miles, from Black Forest Road to Stapleton
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Lottery is reporting that one lucky player in Pueblo hit the $5,214,531 Colorado Lotto+ jackpot. The big winner matched all six numbers (10-24-27-35-37-38) for the Wednesday, November 29, 2023 drawing. KRDO The Colorado Lottery says that the winner purchased their ticket at Loaf N Jug, 3980 Ivywood Lane, at
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — With all of the development and construction happening in the area, county officials want to improve their ability to monitor work sites and prevent erosion or other substances from flowing into storm drains. KRDO On Tuesday, county commissioners unanimously voted to approve an ordinance that gives the county engineer more
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Work is gearing up on a two-year, $40 million project to demolish four old bridges on the south end of Circle Drive and replace them with new bridges. KRDO The existing two-lane bridges opened in 1963 and span Fountain Creek, Hancock Expressway, Las Vegas Street, two railroad tracks and a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Two minutes is the most time you have to safely escape a fire in a home, apartment or other structure, a Red Cross spokesman said Friday in the aftermath of a fire that destroyed a building and displaced 30 tenants. Angelina Gentile Spokesman Phil Martinez said it’s worth remembering that
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A unanimous vote Tuesday by El Paso County commissioners ended the process of obtaining federal money to help pay for $8.4 million in damage to road and parks infrastructure caused by early summer storms. El Paso County To qualify for $6.5 million in funding from the National Resource Conservation Services
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The challenge of navigating the construction zone for a widening of South Academy Boulevard near Interstate 25, is now a lot tougher because of a new problem. Brett Hartzell, project manager for El Paso County, said that “a small amount of movement” discovered in a piling under the boulevard’s bridge
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The U.S. Forest Service is responding to a growing concern about the unsafe use of firearms by people who engage in recreational target shooting (also known as sport shooting) in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest. Sport shooting is allowed on national forest land, except in areas near high concentrations of
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Pueblo’s nickname as the “Home of Heroes” celebrates its four Medal of Honor recipients, but also could include its 13 police officers who died in the line of duty. One of them was Elmer Trout, who died in 1935; the city’s website provides information about him: Pueblo Police Pueblo Police Officer
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The City Council gave tentative approval Monday to a proposed agreement with the city and El Paso County regarding responsibility for 55 traffic signals owned by the county. Gayle Sturdivant, the city’s acting public works director, said that the signals are within the city’s urban interface — in other words,
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Homeowners near the site of Thursday night’s 20-acre at Lake Minnequa said that’s it’s the third fire there in the past two years, and they want to see more done to address possible causes of those fires. KRDO Although the cause of the latest fire remains under investigation, some neighbors express
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The expected arrival of snow and subfreezing temperatures overnight Thursday accelerated the opening of the new Porchlight Emergency Warming Shelter, managed by the nearby Pueblo Rescue Mission. KRDO The Mission acquired the property — half of a former strip mall along 4th Street downtown — less than a week ago and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Before President John F. Kennedy died after being assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, he made two memorable stops in Colorado Springs and Pueblo. In August 1962, Kennedy came to Pueblo to sign the Fryingpan-Arkansas project that brought more water to Pueblo and Colorado’s eastern plains. Pueblo Water “I
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — An eight-mile corridor narrowed by a construction project, with heavy traffic and affected by ice and snow, combine to make emergency responses by public safety crews especially challenging. KRDO The current project along Interstate 25 between South Academy Boulevard in Colorado Springs and Santa Fe Avenue in Fountain is
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — A woman accused of setting fire to houses, an unspecified businesses, a vehicle, bushes, and a fence was apprehended by police early Saturday afternoon. In custody on charges of first-degree arson is Sarah Moseley, 30. Pueblo Police Pueblo Police say that shortly after noon, officers and firefighters responded to eight fires
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — An $18 million project to build an overpass for the future extension of Powers Boulevard started Monday. The bridge will be on the far north end of the Powers extension between Voyager Parkway and Interstate 25; to accommodate the construction, workers are closing the Voyager Parkway intersection where the bridge
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Traditional holiday food, football games, and Black Friday shopping go with Thanksgiving but impaired and unsafe driving don’t. That’s the message Friday from local law enforcement agencies that are joining forces to increase traffic enforcement during the holiday weekend. KRDO Police in Colorado Springs, Fountain, Monument and Palmer Lake; El
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — As of Thursday evening, more than 1,000 residents of the growing Banning Lewis Ranch subdivision, in the city’s northeastern corner, had signed a petition to oppose proposed changes to the next phase of development there. change.org Neighbors scrambled to organize and prepare to attend a discussion and vote on the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Pikes Peak Fire Chiefs Council sent a letter to Gov. Jared Polis and state Lawmakers Tuesday, stating its opposition to proposed property tax relief that doesn’t include financial protections for smaller fire districts and special districts. “Fire Chiefs support full funding to these vital services,” council president Andrew York
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — UPDATE: Neighbors opposing a proposed new car wash at the eastern city limits lost their appeal to the City Council. In a 5-3 vote Tuesday, the Council upheld an earlier approval by the city’s Planning Commission, for a car wash at the intersection of Peterson Road and Pony Tracks Drive.
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