TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is targeting the upcoming Father’s Day holiday for wrapping up a $7.2 million widening and drainage improvement project that started in March 2025. Construction covers nearly three miles of Highway 67 on the north side of town, between US 24 and the Kelley’s Road/Stone
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters walked out of the La Vista Correctional Facility on June 1, 2026, according to the Colorado Department of Corrections. Peters’ release comes just weeks after Colorado Governor Jared Polis officially commuted her nearly 9-year prison sentence. La Vista is primarily a medium-security facility
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers who may have wondered about a long, winding, flexible pipe at the bottom of the 8th Street hill for the past few weeks, now may be curious about why it’s gone and where it went. In a daylong operation on Wednesday, crews with Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) inserted a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Thursday could produce the busiest graduation day traffic in recent memory around the north gate of the Air Force Academy (AFA). Since last year’s event, the construction of new roundabouts between the gate, the new Hotel Polaris, and the just-opened new Visitors Center has been completed. The roundabouts are designed
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) are two weeks into a ten-mile, $12 repaving project on US 24 between Peyton and Calhan. The work continues repaving completed last year from Falcon to Peyton. Crews are currently in the milling process, removing existing pavement from the westbound lane
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — Now that the threat of erosion from Fountain Creek has decreased, officials are moving ahead with repaving a half-mile of Southmoor Drive on the north side of town. A visible sign of the upcoming work is the recent removal of concrete barriers, although several road closure signs remain in place between
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COORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Similar to last summer’s pothole “blitz” in Pueblo, officials in Colorado Springs plan to start a pothole “surge,” or saturation patrol, for a more aggressive response to patching potholes. It’s a very, very big deal,” said Corey Farkas, the city’s manager for public works operations and maintenance. The surge starts
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers on the city’s southwest side have been without a popular shortcut under I-25 between the Broadmoor World Arena and the south end of Janitell Road since February 2024. Officials closed the one-way, single-lane Willwood Tunnel for safety reasons — explaining that there was too much traffic congestion from drivers
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — As organizers prepare for the annual Territory Days festival on Memorial Day weekend, city officials are planning to make safety upgrades that could improve the atmosphere for that event, and for other future gatherings along bustling West Colorado Avenue. On Wednesday, officials gathered to announce the plan for safety improvements
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The Colorado Department of Transportation is repaving 10 miles of U.S. 50 from Purcell Boulevard in Pueblo West to the Fremont County line, with a budget of $15 million and an expected completion date of late summer or early fall.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — After spending $375,000 to repair a crumbling concrete channel in Cimarron Hills earlier this spring, the county will spend $200,000 more to replace two drainage pipes connected to the channel. The channel work limited traffic on Ford Street at the Seneca Road intersection to one lane in each direction,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The latest phase in the $11 million Park Vista drainage improvements project will allow traffic to resume on a street that’s been closed since last October. The closure of a block of Hopeful Drive was to replace a bridge over Templeton Gap Creek, and dry weather helped crews finish the
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Since late 2024, we’ve been watching the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) make steady progress on the building of five bridges across Interstate 25, Fountain Creek, and the Union Pacific Railroad. And now, starting this weekend, drivers will get a closer look at the project. Beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, crews
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Among the most common pothole-related questions to KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior are: Why do crews fill some, but not all of numerous potholes at an intersection, and why are pothole reports listed as “closed” when they actually still need repair. Two examples of intersection potholes are at Academy and
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FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) have so far removed dozens of concrete pavement panels that were cracked and broken along the five miles of Highway 115 in Pensose. And this week, workers were still using saws to cut out the remaining affected panels on the north end
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — A street repaving that didn’t happen as scheduled last year will be the first this year in the Steel City and Home of Heroes. Crews have begun removing old pavement from a mile of 6th Street, through the middle of downtown, from Interstate 25 to the Midtown Shopping Center. On Tuesday,
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Much of downtown was in darkness overnight because of a power outage that cut electricity to street lights, traffic signals, and businesses. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior noticed the situation as he arrived to report on a paving project just before 5 a.m. Wednesday. The downtown McDonald’s also lost power, affecting
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Northbound traffic on part of Stone Avenue around a water main project is closed as Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) enters its fourth day of construction. CSU is replacing an iron pipe with a PVC pipe along a mile of the avenue, from just north of Fillmore Street to Winters Drive,
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews are nearly finished placing fresh asphalt on the western end of Hanover Road, the main artery through the Hanover community, where significant damage occurred in February 2025. County officials said that the damage isn’t the reason for the repaving; rather, it was simply on the regular schedule this
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The potential for future economic development in the St. Charles Industrial Park has changed the strategy for rebuilding a deteriorating concrete road through the area. In late 2024, KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior reported on the plan for 1.5 miles of Lime Road, east of the Stem Beach interchange on Interstate
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