COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – UPDATE: Repairs were completed at 3 p.m. Monday; at times, traffic backed up to the Circle Drive/Lake Avenue interchange. After June was marked by lane closures and even full closures of Interstate 25 through the Fountain area, July begins with another lane closure that started late Monday morning. The Colorado
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. — Workers have finished a five-month, $5 million project to extend Indiana Avenue on the south side of town and provide drivers with a better east-west route to and from busy Highway 85/87 (Santa Fe Avenue). Officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday evening and the three-block stretch of Indiana opened to traffic the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Two bridges on Fillmore Street, just east of Interstate 25, were built in the 1960s and weren’t designed the increased traffic loads they bear today. City officials plan to replace both bridges within the next five to ten years, at an estimated cost of $45 million; one bridge crosses the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, (KRDO) — KRDO13’s The Road Warrior took to the roads in every sense of the word Wednesday, for the city’s annual Bike to Work Day event. Road Warrior Scott Harrison rented a bike from the Pike Ride app and visited some of the 44 breakfast stations — an all-time high — where
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Patrick Hoopes is an NCAA gymnastics champion in the pommel horse, “It’s also something that like it’s just feels super rewarding that I like, make a routine and and finally get like a skill that’s like taking a while to work on it,” says Air Force junior, Patrick Hoopes. Now he’s working on grabbing a spot on
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A busy intersection already impacted by construction will be further affected this week by a sinkhole prevention project on the east side of Airport Road at Academy Boulevard. Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is investigating the beginning stages of a sinkhole in hopes of determining the cause and keeping it from
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We had love at fourteen thousand feet a-top of America’s mountain on Sunday. Reaching the summit of Pikes Peak during the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is an accomplishment in it’s own right but there was a special moment between two drivers on Sunday. As Mary Barker and Kendall Samuel tied the knot after racing
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Daniel Williams avoided serious injury Saturday when a large chuck of concrete pavement flew through the windshield of the car he drove on northbound Powers Boulevard, just south of the Aeroplaza Drive intersection. “It went through the passenger side,” he said, as he held the the piece of concrete. “It
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Although he has yet to be officially identified by authorities, the family of Ronald Ray Valdez, 34, confirmed Saturday to KRDO 13 that he was the man shot to death by police officers Wednesday night. The details from police: At around 7:45 p.m., they they responded to a report of a
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — For the second time this month, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will close I-25 in both directions between Mesa Ridge Parkway and Santa Fe Avenue this week, during the next few overnight periods. CDOT spokesperson Amber Shipley said Thursday that equipment issues have put the project to finish repaving and
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — After rain stopped just minutes before the start of the Western Street Breakfast downtown, spectators had two things on their minds. Street closures and parking. People new to the annual event may not have realized that some streets were temporarily closed to make room for it; barricades were set up
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The Race to the Clouds. You get the sound of the cars in the distance and up close, and while the sound are familiar, some are less so. There’s five electric vehicles racing this year, one of them is being driven by Romain Dumas, who drove an EV van last year, and finished second, “This
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Nearly two years after building an overpass and interchange at the intersection of Powers Boulevard and Research Parkway, a similar project will start next week at the intersection of Powers and Airport Road. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will spend $46 million on the project that officially begins Monday
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. (KRDO) — Fire Crews are at the scene of a fire off the side of I-25 headed southbound in between North Academy and Woodmen in Colorado Springs. Emergency crews are working on extinguishing the fire. The severity of the burn and the cause have not been released at this time. According to
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Willie Mays, whose unmatched collection of skills made him the greatest center fielder who ever lived, died Tuesday afternoon at the age of 93, the San Francisco Giants announced. “My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones,” said Michael Mays in a statement released by the Giants. “I want to thank you all from the
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Local governments advise citizens to contact them directly when reporting potholes or other infrastructure concerns. But occasionally, it’s difficult for people to know whether a city, county or state agency has jurisdiction over a certain area. It’s a situation that has recently developed in and around Pueblo. A viewer notified KRDO13
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The 102nd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb will take place on Sunday on America’s mountain. On Monday, the cars racing in the race were inspected in the parking lot of the World Arena.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is in the final month of a project it started in March, moving a mile of overhead power distribution lines to under a stretch of Nevada Avenue north and south of Fillmore Street. The lines are being relocated between Harrison and Commerce streets — near Common
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO ) — There is an active scene on the west side of Colorado Springs. The presence is on the 1100 block of Garner Street near Highway 24. There is no confirmed information regarding the purpose of the presence but it is a developing story that we will update when more information
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Along with numerous projects on city streets this summer, the Steel City also has or will have three major projects on highways through town. The newest project starts Sunday, on three miles of Highway 47 east of the US 50 interchange, where asphalt pavement turns into concrete pavement. The Colorado Department
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