EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Drivers running errands or traveling Saturday through the south end of South Academy Boulevard will have to detour around a day-long southbound closure between Bradley Road and Highway 85/87. The closure, from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m., allows crews to move safety barriers into place for improvement work on
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – If someone told you that driving on bad roads and bridges was costing you $2,610 annually, would you believe it? That’s the assertion in a new study released Wednesday by TRIP, a nonprofit transportation research group based in Washington, D.C. The study — “Keeping Colorado Mobile: Meeting the State’s Need
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Broncos fans big and small lined up to see former Broncos great Ed McCaffrey. They like him and his mustard; he still has that effect on the fans. “I am just absolutely blown away with how many Broncos fans are excited to visit with me, share old stories, and our
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO13) — City officials spoke Wednesday about installing safety signals at four new school zones. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior reported on a similar installation last summer at Pine Creek High School. The new locations are: Rampart High School – along Union and Lexington Mitchell High School – along Galley and Murray
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The Cheyenne Mountain high school hockey team defeated Colorado Springs District 11 5-1 on Tuesday night at Robson Arena.
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The Colorado College hockey team will leave Thursday for Tempe, Arizona. The Tigers will play a weekend series against the top team in the NCHC Arizona State.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials regularly get requests from citizens to repave gravel roads which comprise half of the county’s overall road network. But doing that on a wide scale would be too expensive, so officials devote resources to repairing, maintaining and preserving existing gravel roads. One of those resources is the same
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The most slippery driving on a bitterly cold Monday morning may have been in the foothills west of Interstate 25, a city public works official said. According to Lance Holmes, a public works supervisor, most of the city’s snow-packed and icy streets were on the west side of town. However,
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Highlights from the finals of the Colorado Springs Metro Wrestling Championships.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Many residents will be scrambling over the next two days to ensure that they’re ready for the weekend cold snap that will bring low temperatures of between zero and -10 degrees from Saturday night through Tuesday night. A spokesman for AAA Colorado said Wednesday that all of its member auto
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Officials said that they can use heavy equipment to slice off, or peel off, mud on unpaved gravel roads in rural areas. Jack Ladley, the county’s deputy director of public works, recently explained the procedure when responding to complaints of muddy roads after melting snow from November storms left
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Avoiding tragedies like two just before Thanksgiving 2023 at a busy intersection in Falcon is the goal of a road safety committee that formed two years ago and recently met to decide its first steps. Within a week of that holiday, two separate crashes at or near the intersection
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) project that started a year ago to install five miles of new gas pipeline, continues with its second phase Monday. The latest work will require a three-month closure of southbound 31st Street, between Garden of the Gods and Old Colorado City, from Fontanero Street to
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The surprise discovery of a fiber optics cable has delayed the finish of a Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) project from last October until sometime next month. KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior learned of the situation after being contacted by a viewer who asked why work wasn’t completed yet. Jeff Kretzer,
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MONUMENT, Colo. (KRDO) – Wind and snow have hit our region again, with some areas faring better than others. While conditions along most major thoroughfares in Colorado Springs were not too bad Thursday, road and weather conditions deteriorated with travel north of Briargate Parkway. Wind gusts poured across roadways in the Monument area, reducing visibility
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Construction crews are managing daytime closures this week on two ramps along the South Academy Boulevard widening project. It’s happening so that workers can install sound walls bordering the adjacent Stratmoor Valley neighborhood. Both closures are at the south end of the construction zone; workers closed the northbound on-ramp from Hartford
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s just been a little more than a month since city crews stopped water flowing from an underground spring on Dublin Boulevard that was an ice and splash hazard for drivers. Now, a similar problem has developed at the intersection of Rockrimmon Boulevard and Vindicator Drive. City officials and Colorado
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Pine Creek High School was the week eight winner of the Qdoba Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award. On Tuesday the Eagles cheer squad was presented the Qdoba Friday Night Blitz Spirit Award plaque.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Small rocks are among the materials contained in the gravel mix applied to unpaved rural roads, but one resident said that some of the rocks are larger than they should be and are damaging vehicles and windshields. The resident recently contacted KRDO13’s The Road Warrior about her concern; she
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EL PASO/DOUGLAS COUNTY LINE, Colo. (KRDO) – After a December grace period that resulted in approximately 10,000 violations, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) starts the new year with tighter enforcement of illegal and unsafe driving habits in the I-25 “Gap” between Monument and Castle Rock. CDOT said that it is the first in the
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