MONUMENT, Colo. (KRDO) — Snow continued to fall steadily in the Monument area of northern El Paso County, as of noon Wednesday. Traffic on I-25 began to accumulate, although conditions were generally slushy, and traffic on Monument Hill began to slow. Drivers may find more snow-packed and icy conditions on Highway 105 through Monument. The
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Pine Creek High School was our week ten winner of the Qdoba Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award plaque. On Tuesday, Dec. 2, the cheer squad received the Qdoba Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award plaque. Stay up to date with the latest local news, sports, and investigations by downloading the KRDO13
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MONUMENT, Colo. (KRDO) — The Palmer Ridge football team enters Saturday’s Class 4A state championship unbeaten. They will play Dakota Ridge for the title on Saturday. The game will be played on the campus of Colorado State University. Kickoff is set for 1:30 pm. Stay up to date with the latest local news, sports, and
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s fairly common to see areas along abandoned railroad tracks converted to recreational trails, but changing an existing road to a trail seems a bit more unusual. But that’s a proposal by the Fountain Mutual Metro District, an entity that oversees stormwater management and parks/recreation in the area north
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The snow that fell overnight Sunday didn’t delay a project to make upgrades to a pair of left-turn lanes between two shopping areas along a busy road in Falcon. Officials have closed the northbound turn lane into a Walmart shopping center, and the southbound turn lane into a McDonald’s
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Snow that was expected but didn’t fall a week ago, did fall overnight Sunday in the area’s first significant widespread accumulation of the season. As of 6 a.m. Monday, Interstate 25 between downtown Colorado Springs and Monument was mostly wet as crews from the Colorado Department of Transportation sprayed
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The slumping economy, the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the increase in online buying have gradually lessened the crush of shoppers at stores on Black Friday. While lines of buyers failed to develop at traditional places such as Walmart and Best Buy, some lines formed outside Target, JC Penney,
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The CSU Pueblo Women’s basketball team beat Western New Mexico 84-34 on Friday afternoon.
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The CSU Pueblo men’s basketball team opened up the Thanksgiving Classic with a 78-69 win over Texas Permian-Basin on Friday night. Jordan Blair lead the T-Wolves with 14 points..
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Idalia defeated Stratton in the six man state championship 38-3 on Friday afternoon.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — First, the good news: Repaving and other improvements along one of the area’s busiest corridors have now become a higher priority. The bad news, however, is that 2028 is the earliest that work will happen. Most drivers are familiar with the poor condition of the Fountain Expressway, and the east
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — The town’s paving season ended only a few weeks ago, but officials are already working on one of two projects on North 9th Street to prepare for repaving next year. 9th Street extends across the city from north to south, connecting to downtown, US 50, and the Arkansas River. Crews
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Vista Ridge High School won the Qdoba Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award during week eight of the high school football season. Recently, we presented the Qdoba Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award plaque to the Wolves cheer squad and football team.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The county is now a week into a major drainage project that will eventually allow crumbling pavement at a busy intersection to be repaved. Numerous viewers have complained to KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior for the past year about the poor condition of North Gate Boulevard at Struthers Road;
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Inmate records confirm Robert Dear, the self-admitted Planned Parenthood shooter, has died in federal custody at the age of 67. According to records, he died on Saturday. Cause of death will need to be released by the medical examiner, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. KRDO13 has reached
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers, businesses, and neighbors along the east end of Main Street will get a pleasant holiday present: the completion of a natural gas line relocation that closed several blocks of the street for months at a time. The project, which started early last year, has affected several blocks at the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) clarified a KRDO 13 report on Friday regarding scheduled overnight median work on a mile-long stretch of Powers Boulevard on the east side of the city. An alert posted on a map on CoTrip.org’s website stated that two left lanes northbound and southbound overnight
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — While many people awoke disappointed at the lack of snow in the Pikes Peak region on Friday morning, others were relieved that they had no slick roads to deal with during rush hour. Drivers found either damp or dry pavement along Interstate 25 between Colorado Springs and Monument, with
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Five years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, county officials began courting high school graduates to offset worker shortages that limited how much snowplowing and other public works tasks could be done. That effort appears to be a growing success. The county’s CONNECT program periodically invites students
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PUEBLO WEST, Colo. (KRDO) — The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) is searching for the suspect in an apparent stabbing late Tuesday night that is now a homicide investigation. Authorities said that they know who the suspect is, but they haven’t released the name of the suspect. On Wednesday afternoon, the coroner’s office identified the
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