COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — As the coronavirus pandemic enters its ninth month in Colorado, it has slowed or stopped many aspects of the economy but seems to have no effect on the continued high cost of living in Colorado Springs. According to the Virginia-based Council for Community and Economic Research, the city’s cost of
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Coping with depression, loneliness, stress or other mental health issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic takes grit, and that’s what a new program at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs is targeting. UCCS, along with several local mental health service providers, has started GRIT (Greater Resilience Information Toolkit). It’s a program
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Pueblo East falls to Durango 45-20. Pueblo County tops Pueblo Centennial 48-6. Mesa Ridge blanks Air Academy 65-0. Discovery Canyon shuts out Niwot 54-0. Pine Creek loses to Legend 21-20. Lewis Palmer holds off Pueblo Central 23-13.
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Rob’s pick: Peyton running back Brandon Hussey. Danny’s pick: Pueblo South running back George Longoria.
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George Longoria scored 3 first half touchdowns to lead Pueblo South past Canon City 26-21.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — With three weeks remaining until Thanksgiving, state and local leaders are asking people to limit contact with others during the next few weeks to help slow the ongoing spike in COVID-19 cases. Gov. Jared Polis, in a media briefing Thursday, did not specifically mention Thanksgiving or say that people shouldn’t
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The Rampart Rams beat the Fountain Fort Carson Trojans 17-14 on Thursday night.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — With Pueblo currently mandating an overnight curfew to reduce socializing at bars and other places in hopes of reducing the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, many of us wonder if Colorado Springs will take similar action. In an interview Wednesday with KRDO NewsChannel 13, Mayor John Suthers downplayed the need
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Mayor John Suthers is pleased that voters agreed with him in supporting two financial issues approved on Tuesday’s ballot. Local Question 2A — pushed by Suthers in the months leading up to the election — passed by a margin of 60% to 40%. The result allows the city to use
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — It seems that the more Colorado officials emphasize the need to slow skyrocketing numbers of COVID-19, the more those numbers continue to increase. For El Paso County, Halloween weekend resulted in a record number of positive cases; 292 on Saturday and 310 on Sunday. In Pueblo County, the numbers
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Palmer knocks off Widefield 21-6. Coronado tops Cheyenne Mountain 24-13. Pueblo South keeps the cannon with a 28-7 win over Pueblo East. Liberty wins a thriller over Thornton 29-27.
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Overview: We’re tracking a weak cold front that will kick up the wind and lead to a brisk evening for any Halloween Trick-or-Treaters. After a cool start to Sunday the air should warm into next week with periods of wind and little chance for precipitation. Today: Sunny and warming quickly this morning with high temperatures
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Vista Ridge tops Mesa Ridge 47-7. Rampart blanks Air Academy 49-0. Simla holds off Calhan 28-20.
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Fountain Fort Carson outlasts Pueblo West 35-21. Palmer Ridge rallies to beat Montrose 42-20. Pine Creek upends Doherty 59-14. CSCS shuts out Rocky Ford 42-0. Florence crushes Bayfield 49-7.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation is taking advantage of unseasonably warm weather to conduct emergency repairs on an eight-mile stretch of Interstate 25 between south Colorado Springs and south Fountain. The project starts Monday and is expected to be finished by Nov. 20. The work will be done Monday
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TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — UPDATE: The attorney of Johnny Monderen reached out to KRDO to provide an update that the case had been dismissed. According to attorney Joe Maher, the District Attorney’s Office informed the court of evidence “substantially contradictory statements from the alleged victim’s trial testimony” that had not previously been disclosed to
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Southwest Airlines announced last week that it’ll expand into Colorado Springs and now we know where the flights will be going when the service starts. According to Southwest, nonstop flights will go between Colorado Springs and Dallas, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Denver starting on March 11. Southwest also revealed
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MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Public Works crews spent most of late Monday night and all day Tuesday repairing a broken water main and cleaning up the mess it caused. The break was reported around 11:30 p.m. Monday at the west end of Midland Avenue, a narrow, dead-end road through a residential area. It released
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office issued a release Monday alerting people to a rash of vehicle break-ins occurring at trailheads from Monument to Fountain. One victim posted on Facebook that her vehicle was burglarized this weekend at the Rampart Dog Park in northeast Colorado Springs, saying that it
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — UPDATE: The New Santa Fe Trail near the Air Force Academy is safe after a close call with a two-acre grass fire Saturday afternoon. It started around 12:30 on Interstate 25 between North Gate Boulevard and Interquest Parkway. A captain with the United States Air Force Academy Fire Department said
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