LAS ANIMAS COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — On Tuesday afternoon, the Las Animas County Sheriff’s Department and Office of Emergency Management provided an update on the fire burning seven miles west of the town of Aguilar. Authorities said that the wildfire, now called the Trujillo Creek Fire, has reached over 100 acres with 0% containment. KRDO
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The owner of a Louisiana seafood company who has sold product here for nearly a decade, said that he’s being treated unfairly because he’s no longer allowed to sell certain kinds of live crawfish while other sellers continue to do so. A&A At issue are two particular species of the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A candidate in the race to be the next mayor of Colorado Springs is requesting information on the cost of a recount of mayoral ballots. KRDO Friday afternoon, KRDO obtained a request for the estimated cost of a recount by candidate Sallie Clark to the City of Colorado Springs stating
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A month after rejecting a plan by Classic Communities to build 450 homes on the south side of Black Forest, the county’s planning commission reconsidered and approved the project Thursday. By an 8-1 vote, the commission recommended the proposal to county commissioners for a final public hearing and vote
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The trial of Letecia Stauch, the El Paso County woman accused of murdering her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon, finished its third day Wednesday. KRDO Grim testimony came in the afternoon from Macon Ponder, a Florida Department of Transportation bridge inspector who found Gannnon’s body, and Jason Yoder, a major crimes
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — For the second time in two weeks, residents in the Black Forest area are opposing a proposed housing development but the project cleared its first hurdle Tuesday. The owner of 31 acres west of the intersection of Vollmer Road and Tahiti Drive asked El Paso County commissioners Tuesday for
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The controversy over restrooms at the city bus depot continued Monday with Mountain Metro Transit closing them with plans to conduct tests for possible methamphetamine contamination. KRDO Friday, bus driver Margie Sullivant told KRDO NewsChannel 13 that a security guard at the Downtown Transit Center required hospital treatment Thursday after
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FLORISSANT, Colo. (KRDO) — Authorities, organizations and volunteers have scrambled to provide enough meals, drinks, snacks and other necessities for first responders as a wildfire burns for a second straight day. Florissant Fire Rescue Organizers brought in pizza Thursday evening, just hours after the fire began, and followed that with cooking 200 burritos for breakfast
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The project to repair decades of water damage on the iconic Air Force Academy chapel was extended by the discovery of additional asbestos a year ago, but officials said Thursday that the project has now moved from the demolition phase to the restoration phase. KRDO On Thursday, workers removed the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Members of a union representing city bus drivers said that they are seeing more kidney and other health issues related to waiting too long to find easily-accessible public restrooms. KRDO Union leaders brought their concerns to the City Council during the public comment segment of Tuesday’s full meeting. “Too little
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The City Council and several residents voiced support this week for one of two systems recommended by the Department of Parks & Recreation to prevent toxic algae blooms and high bacterial levels that forced the temporary closure of Prospect Lake in 2019. 2020 and 2022. The system in question would
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On Monday afternoon, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez made a presentation to the City Council regarding the results and recommendations of an independent study of how and how often officers use force to subdue suspects. KRDO The city hired Transparency Matters, a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm, in 2020 to study
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — April marks the 65th anniversary of the Thrift House of the Episcopal Churchwomen, and it also signals the end of the longtime business on Tejon Street, just south of downtown. “We’ve been hurt by some of the very people we try to help,” said Manager Holly Gomez. KRDO The Thrift
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PROWERS COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A fire between Lamar and Granada that began Wednesday afternoon burned more than 5,000 acres, authorities confirmed. According to Prowers County officials, Prowers County Rural Fire was paged to a grass fire on March 22 at 3:58 p.m. burning along Highway 50, east of Lamar at mile marker 443. Viaero
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — On Wednesday, Doug Price celebrated receiving the Spirit of the Springs Lifetime Achievement Award by expressing optimism about the current and future state of the area’s tourism industry. KRDO Price, the longtime president and CEO of VisitCOS, the local convention and visitors’ bureau, has been on the job during a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Police have identified 32 businesses which they say are based solely on operating illegal gambling machines, but a new enforcement effort is concentrating more on education than arresting. Because of that, police say that they are not identifying the affected businesses identified as possibly operating illegal gaming devices or maintaining
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Classic Communities asked for and received more time from commissioners Tuesday to re-submit a request to build 450 homes in Black Forest after the proposal was recently denied by the county planning commission. KRDO The proposed sketch plan would build homes, commercial space, and open space on 142 acres
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris joined other national leaders in the nation’s capitol to announce new funding to help protect high-risk communities, including here in Colorado, from wildfires ahead of this year’s fire season and in the future. The White House Harris held a 1 p.m. MDT media phone briefing
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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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