COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Mayor Yemi Mobolade held his year-end monthly briefing Tuesday and reiterated that one of his top goals is to establish a new, larger and more modern police academy and training center. KRDO Voters rejected his push last month to use $5 million in surplus tax revenue to partially finance the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Investigators revealed Monday evening that a house fire was caused by a space heater being placed too close to combustible materials. The Colorado Springs Fire Department also said that crews encountered “very heavy hoarding conditions” — belongings and items piled high inside and outside the home — that required additional resources
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The 41st year of an annual holiday event that provides food, gifts, bicycles and other items to underprivileged families was the best ever, organizers said Saturday. Bob Telmosse’ Foundation 2,400 children and 700 families benefitted from the Bob Telmosse’ Christmas Giveaway at the Colorado Springs Event Center on Palmer Park
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — With plenty to keep him busy before his annual Christmas Eve travels, St. Nicholas took time Friday to entertain families of kids and their families spending the holidays at Children’s Hospital in northeast Colorado Springs. KRDO With the help of the 10th Special Forces Group at Fort Carson, the jolly
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WALSENBURG, Colo. (KRDO) — People in Huerfano and Las Animas counties saw the sun come out and snow begin to melt late Thursday morning, after an overnight winter storm dumped a considerable amount of snow. KRDO Driving conditions improved to the point that most roads were wet, but clear of ice and snow — partly
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Some roads and driveways connecting to a ten-mile stretch of Highway 83 between Powers Boulevard and County Line Road near Monument, could be eventually closed as part of a long-range plan to improve safety along the corridor. KRDO The plan was recently presented to the El Paso County Planning
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Nearly three weeks after the latest fire at Lake Minnequa on the city’s west side, authorities are explaining a long-range plan for mitigating — or reducing — excess vegetation that has fueled several fires around the lake in recent years. KRDO Tim Trujillo, a spokesman with the Pueblo Fire Department, said
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A revised proposal for a high-rise apartment project downtown, has renewed the debate among city leaders about whether such a project would be unsightly and lock mountain views for people who live, work and visit in the area. Although the subject of an hour-long presentation during a City Council work
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The county’s Board of Commissioners officially announced their plan Friday afternoon to lower the amount of record-high property taxes levied to thousands of residents next year. Some Front Range communities have seen property assessments rise as much as 40%; in a release issued Friday morning, commissioners said that they
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — After months of discussion and many concerns expressed by opposing neighbors, the Briargate Parkway-Stapleton Road Transportation Corridor plan passed by a unanimous vote of the county Planning Commission. KRDO As KRDO reported previously, the plan will extend Briargate east more than four miles, from Black Forest Road to Stapleton
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Lottery is reporting that one lucky player in Pueblo hit the $5,214,531 Colorado Lotto+ jackpot. The big winner matched all six numbers (10-24-27-35-37-38) for the Wednesday, November 29, 2023 drawing. KRDO The Colorado Lottery says that the winner purchased their ticket at Loaf N Jug, 3980 Ivywood Lane, at
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — With all of the development and construction happening in the area, county officials want to improve their ability to monitor work sites and prevent erosion or other substances from flowing into storm drains. KRDO On Tuesday, county commissioners unanimously voted to approve an ordinance that gives the county engineer more
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Work is gearing up on a two-year, $40 million project to demolish four old bridges on the south end of Circle Drive and replace them with new bridges. KRDO The existing two-lane bridges opened in 1963 and span Fountain Creek, Hancock Expressway, Las Vegas Street, two railroad tracks and a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Two minutes is the most time you have to safely escape a fire in a home, apartment or other structure, a Red Cross spokesman said Friday in the aftermath of a fire that destroyed a building and displaced 30 tenants. Angelina Gentile Spokesman Phil Martinez said it’s worth remembering that
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A unanimous vote Tuesday by El Paso County commissioners ended the process of obtaining federal money to help pay for $8.4 million in damage to road and parks infrastructure caused by early summer storms. El Paso County To qualify for $6.5 million in funding from the National Resource Conservation Services
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The challenge of navigating the construction zone for a widening of South Academy Boulevard near Interstate 25, is now a lot tougher because of a new problem. Brett Hartzell, project manager for El Paso County, said that “a small amount of movement” discovered in a piling under the boulevard’s bridge
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The U.S. Forest Service is responding to a growing concern about the unsafe use of firearms by people who engage in recreational target shooting (also known as sport shooting) in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest. Sport shooting is allowed on national forest land, except in areas near high concentrations of
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Pueblo’s nickname as the “Home of Heroes” celebrates its four Medal of Honor recipients, but also could include its 13 police officers who died in the line of duty. One of them was Elmer Trout, who died in 1935; the city’s website provides information about him: Pueblo Police Pueblo Police Officer
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The City Council gave tentative approval Monday to a proposed agreement with the city and El Paso County regarding responsibility for 55 traffic signals owned by the county. Gayle Sturdivant, the city’s acting public works director, said that the signals are within the city’s urban interface — in other words,
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Homeowners near the site of Thursday night’s 20-acre at Lake Minnequa said that’s it’s the third fire there in the past two years, and they want to see more done to address possible causes of those fires. KRDO Although the cause of the latest fire remains under investigation, some neighbors express
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