EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — As the second day of the Meridian Fire drags on, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPSO) said Friday afternoon that they are a few active hot spots burning. Residents could see active flames, though crews are working diligently to quell them. As of 1:18 P.M., EPSO says Franceville
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) — A half-mile stretch of Highway 67 on the north side of town will be the site of a Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) project that’s scheduled for completion in the fall. But, despite safety and traffic benefits, there’s some concern from residents about how it might worsen already-congested summer vacation
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s been a month since extreme weather changes created widespread damage on Myers Road in the Hanover community southeast of Fountain, but county officials have announced a plan to make repairs. Dan Gerhard, the project manager, said that the $300,000, two-phase effort will start next Tuesday on a two-mile
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Bonforte Boulevard is one of the city’s older streets, three miles long on the northeast side of town between US 50 East and the south end of the CSU-Pueblo campus, north of Highway 47. It also has sections that are in rough shape; so rough that they required emergency repairs. “The
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — For the second time in a month, a mile-long stretch of busy Marksheffel Road on the city’s eastern border will close overnight in the latest phase of the ongoing widening project there. On Monday and Tuesday nights, the northern segment of the construction area will close between Dublin and Stetson
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — With three current or recent road-related projects, 2025 has already been an active construction year for the Fremont County seat. Residents can expect more work later this spring when street paving begins. The biggest project is the half-mile stretch of Justice Center Road, between US 50 and Grandview Avenue, on
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Many viewers tell KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior that potholes seem to be worse this winter than they normally are, while the city’s public works director believes they aren’t worse than usual. Jerry Murphy Road, south of Highway 47 on the city’s northeast side, is commonly mentioned as an area where
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) — Some citizens were skeptical about whether two paving projects which didn’t start until late last summer, would be finished before winter weather arrived. In mid-October, The Road Warrior reported on the biggest project — a mile-long reconstruction of Lake Avenue which crosses the town between Rampart Range Road and Highway
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EL PASO COUNTY,, Colo. (KRDO) – US 24 reopened in both directions west of Woodmen Road because of “safety concerns” after a crash involving a semi blocked both lanes of the highway early Tuesday morning, a Colorado State Patrol trooper told our crews on scene. That part of the highway reopened just before 9:30 a.m.;
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s rare to have all lanes in one direction of a busy corridor closed all day for construction, but that’s what drivers endured this weekend along the South Academy Boulevard widening project. On Saturday and Sunday, the county closed the boulevard between Bradley Road and Highway 85/87 so that
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO13) — A man is dead after a shooting near the intersection of North Academy Boulevard and Galley Road. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD), it happened around 2:37 Friday morning in the Crossroads@Citadel shopping plaza. When police arrived on scene, the victim was no longer there; however, they learned
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CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews hope that the third time is a charm for relocating a natural gas line that’s been unsuccessful on at least two previous attempts. The project by Atmos Energy and Miller Pipeline started late last year on three blocks at the east end of East Main Street, near the Raynolds
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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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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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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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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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