COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A spokesperson for Safeway in Fountain said that potholes in the parking lot will soon be repaired after KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior recently made the grocery aware of complaints from customers. “Thanks for letting us know,” Healther Halpape, the store’s manager of communications and public affairs responded in an
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — While Colorado Springs is scheduled to reveal the streets on its paving list for this season, Pueblo is already rolling along on its third week of resurfacing. That’s thanks to the Steel City’s warmer, drier climate. The city has so far paved two streets downtown: Alan Hamel Avenue, near the Pueblo
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — An inch doesn’t seem like much, but it’s making a big difference for vehicles going in and out of the Oasis Mobile Country Club — a mobile home community for senior citizens along Prairie Avenue on the city’s south side. To accommodate the city’s repaving of the busy street last summer,
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Pro-Palestine protests continue to break out on campuses across the country, and now one university in southern Colorado has joined that list. Students at Colorado State University Pueblo took to the Fountain Plaza on campus Tuesday afternoon, calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, and asking their university administration to
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – The Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region (HSPPR) took in 38 cats after the city shut down a motel in Pueblo. HSPPR says that in the process of shutting down the hotel, several rooms were found with pets inside, including one room containing 38 live cats. Animal Law Enforcement was
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – A multi-agency operation was conducted at the Val-U-Stay Inn in the 2000 block of N. Hudson Ave in Pueblo. Police, working with the city, removed dozens of people after the property failed to secure a valid lodging license. The City did say that the declaration of temporary housing and shelter emergency
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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Pueblo County marijuana cultivators are expressing their concerns over perceived inaction by the Pueblo County Commissioners on not allowing them to sign new licenses to grow and produce cannabis. A vote by the three commissioners has been delayed twice in the last week, a vote that would allow the commissioners
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Given the recent increase in pothole complaints, it’s nice to bring drivers a more positive development. According to AAA Colorado, Colorado Springs — as of late Thursday morning — ranked second in the U.S. for having the lowest average gas prices; last week, the city was number one. But you
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PUEBLO, Colo (KRDO) – America’s Best Restaurants (ABR) will be visiting Musso’s in Pueblo in early May. ABR Roadshow focuses on bringing attention to local and independently owned restaurants. ABR will be filming at Musso’s on Thursday, May 2 from 9 a.m. to noon. Popular dishes will be highlighted along with an on-camera interview with
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – There is a large police presence near an RV park on the south side of Pueblo. The scene is on Lake Ave. near Fort’s RV Park. Pueblo Police Department (PPD) says that officers were responding to reports of animal cruelty. The suspect who was contacted had a warrant for his arrest
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Pueblo Municipal Court is hosting a “Clear Your Warrant” day on Thursday, April 18, 2024, from 9 a.m. til 2 p.m. All active warrants are eligible for assistance and no one will be arrested for their warrants. However, only municipal warrants can be addressed. The Pueblo Police Department says that people
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Minutes before a live report on the city’s east side Tuesday, Cynthia Hopkins drove up to KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior crew, wearing her bathrobe as she explained how agitated she was about pothole damage to her car. “I hit a pothole and damaged my front end,” she shouted through the
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — The peak of the road construction in southern Colorado has arrived with warmer spring temperatures and a major repaving project on I-25 through the Steel City. Officially beginning Monday, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will repave ten miles of the freeway between the Eagleridge Boulevard exit on the north end,
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PUEBLO, Co. (KRDO) – EVRAZ North America says that it is investigating the fire that engulfed a large portion of its Pueblo Steel Mill property on Friday, and forced families nearby to shelter in place over air quality concerns. The steel manufacturer said in a statement that the fire broke out in a “mostly empty
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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) says that the Vision Hills fire is now 100% contained. The fire started on April 5 and prompted evacuations for over 20 homes in the area. PCSO says that the fire has burned an estimated 107 acres. No structures have been damaged and there
Continue Reading PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Fire crews continue to battle a brush fire that ignited Friday along Fountain Creek on the northeast side of Pueblo. The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) ordered evacuations Friday afternoon for homes located a half-mile north of 1945 Overton Road, involving approximately 25 homes; however, some of those evacuations were lifted
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – The Pueblo Police Department (PPD) is investigating a crash that occurred on April 1 at Highway 50 Bypass at Norwood Avenue. PPD says that two vehicles collided. The driver of one vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene while the passenger of one of the vehicles sustained serious injuries. The victim
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – A Pueblo man, at the center of multiple KRDO13 Investigates reports for his release from prison on parole before being charged with two murders, has agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges in both cases. Nicholas Tumblin, 33, was previously accused of shooting and killing 36-year-old Eric Trujillo on 3rd St.
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado State Fair is holding a flash sale on tickets on April 2. The State Fair says that for two hours, from 10 a.m. to noon, tickets will be two dollars! There is a limit of 4 tickets per email address during the flash sale. It will also end before
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) announced that starting on April 1, boaters who remain on the water at Lake Pueblo State Park past gate closing times on the two boat ramps will not be prevented from leaving. CPW says that the change is due to a new policy, and new gates
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