PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — For the third time in the past few years, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has awarded funding to the city and School District 60 to increase safety, mobility and visibility on pathways surrounding and leading to schools. The latest Safe Routes to School grant, announced last week, will provide $370,000
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The Pueblo East boys basketball team played Aurora Central in the Class 5A play in game on Tuesday night. The Eagles picked up a 70-49 victory to advance in the 5A playoffs. They will play Windsor on Friday.
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Nique Clifford, a graduate of the Vanguard school, returned to his hometown of Colorado Springs on Tuesday night to play Air Force. Colorado State defeated Air Force 77-55. Clifford scored 11 points in the Rams victory.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, (KRDO) — Two significant signs of progress will occur during the next two days on the ongoing safety and improvement project south of downtown, along Nevada Avenue and Tejon Street at the Interstate 25 interchange. Overnight Tuesday — between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. — the two blocks of Nevada between I-25
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Some older neighborhoods have streets that were built before current construction standards required storm drains to be closer together than they are now. To convey that drainage, the older streets have “cross pans” — concrete surfaces that transport water across intersections until it enters a storm drain. That creates two
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — For the second straight year, merchants and customers on the west end of town are coping with a major infrastructure project that creates a variety of impacts. Last year at this time, it was the construction of a center median and the installation of six pedestrian crossing signals on US
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William Becker does it all. He can score, he can defend, he’s clutch and he can do it all off the court as well. He’s a student-athlete at UCCS. He has a job, and he’s balancing all of the that with being a new husband. He and his wife Jayden will celebrate their first anniversary
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Vista Ridge High School celebrated state champion wrestler Hayden Newberg on Wednesday afternoon.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Single-digit temperatures and snow Wednesday morning made taking a stand cold work for disgruntled teachers in District 11 who are at odds with the school board. But dozens of teachers did stand outside in front of their schools before the start of classes, to express their displeasure in the board’s
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will close Powers Boulevard north of Airport Road, Friday night through Sunday night, as crews install bridge girders for the overpass that will carry Airport over Powers. NOTE: CDOT announced on Thursday morning that it has canceled a closure originally scheduled for Thursday night,
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The Doherty boys basketball team defeated Vista Ridge on Tuesday night 73-53.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Yet another round of snow and sub-freezing temperatures will likely contribute to potholes developing, or cause previously-filled potholes to pop out. Corey Farkas, the city’s operations and maintenance manager for public works, recently explained the challenge that his crews face in responding to pothole complaints. “If we have winter weather
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is halfway through a monthlong project to repair two aging culverts under US 50 at the 1st Street intersection. The culverts connect two sides of an irrigation channel that has a reduced water flow before the growing season, and that makes working on the
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The Colorado College hockey beat Miami of Ohio in overtime on Saturday night 5-4 in overtime. As the Tigers swept the Redhawks on the weekend.
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The raw emotion of winning a state title. Fowler’s Traven Sharon knows something about winning a stae championship. He became the 33rd wrestler to win the four straight state championships with a second round pin in the Class 2A 126 pound weight class. As for the raw emotion, Pueblo East’s Julian Espinoza had it on
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The Doherty girls basketball team defeated Fountain Fort Carson on Saturday afternoon 61-21.
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It’s go time! The State semifinals featured some epic matches. In the Class 2A 113 pound weight class, Dolores Huerta’s A.J. Jaramillo went toe to toe with Rocky Ford’s Anthony Franco. In the end it was Jaramillo who won by decision. It was all love afterwards, Jaramillo advances to the state final In the 126
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The Colorado College hockey team defeated Miami of Ohio at Robson Arena on Friday night 6-1. Drew Montgomery scored two goals in the Tigers win.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials said that recent inspections of its nine wooden (also known as timber) bridges found no significant or critical levels of deterioration and the structures remain safe to drive on. The inspections resulted from last summer’s sudden closing and subsequent demolition of a timber bridge on Ramah Road West,
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The night began with some heavyweight wrestlers putting on a show. Doherty’s Isabela Mendoca-Rodriguez needed less than a minute to win her first round match. Widefield’s Rilen Ros-Cesares also put her opponent into the expressway to defeats with a first round pin at 1:23. In round two, Vivienne Arellano of Widefield put her opponent in
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