COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris joined other national leaders in the nation’s capitol to announce new funding to help protect high-risk communities, including here in Colorado, from wildfires ahead of this year’s fire season and in the future. The White House Harris held a 1 p.m. MDT media phone briefing
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Monday, March 20, teachers and staff at Discovery Canyon Campus High School learned how to use a tourniquet and how to apply pressure and wrap a gunshot wound, to help faculty become more prepared before paramedics arrive and help victims in the wake of a mass shooting. This comes as a response
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A Colorado Springs man is in jail after a bar owner said he bit someone’s nose off during a fight. Sunday at 9:42 p.m., officers with the Colorado Springs Police Department received a 911 call from an employee at Antiques Billard Museum, on the east side of the city. The
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Another one of the Colorado Springs Police Department’s K9s received a donation of live-saving body armor, marking about 95% of the department’s fleet of K9s protected. Luna Pixel is one of three electronic detection dogs in Colorado. She’s five years old and has been with CSPD for three years. Now,
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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO)– Desert Hawk Golf Course was bought by Pueblo County and the Pueblo West Metro District in a joint partnership back in the early 2000s to help save the failing golf course, which was struggling financially. Since then, Desert Hawk Golf Course has accumulated over $1.2 million in water debt, according to
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — With Friday being St. Patrick’s Day, it was a lucky one for hundreds of people seeking to buy pieces of local history nearly a century old. Double Diamond Auctions In an update to a story KRDO reported last month, auctioneers said that they sold every item from two parcels
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — According to Colorado Springs Utilities, crews responded to a reported outage in downtown Colorado Springs affecting more than 600 customers. A utility spokesman said that the outage was first reported around 9:30 a.m.; below is a look at the outage map at 10:20 a.m. Due to the outage, multiple traffic
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Springs Police Department plans to have four extra patrols on duty on Friday and Saturday night to promote and enforce traffic safety for the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Police said that the patrols will focus not only on downtown — where many bars and nightclubs are — but
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DENVER, Colo. (KRDO) — Senator John Hickenlooper said he’s disappointed in the solution on the table to fix the current mail delays. The delays have left several Coloradans struggling to get medication, packages, and other important mail. In rural El Paso County, some Peyton residents are driving 40 minutes to get their mail to try
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Housing and development have become some of the biggest topics in the upcoming Colorado Springs election. Last week, KRDO highlighted multiple ties between local developers and the mayoral race. Related Stories: 13 Investigates: Colorado Springs Mayoral Candidate Sallie Clark’s large campaign donations. Developer says Colorado Springs mayoral race will cost $1 million,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — An intersection known for flash flooding and rescues for decades, will finally be addressed as part of an agreement finalized this week between city officials and El Paso County officials. The troubled intersection is at Siferd Boulevard and Date Street, just north of the busy Academy Boulevard/Austin Bluffs Parkway intersection,
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — A Pueblo woman is struggling to feel safe after her home was targeted in a drive-by shooting. On Wednesday at 10:02 a.m., Pueblo Police responded to the area of the 2400 block of Lake Ave. on reports of a shooting. According to the Pueblo Police Department, an occupied trailer and a
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Gas prices in Colorado have seen an average of a $0.10 decrease since last week which is significant, but prices are still hovering around historic highs. Chief Petroleum in Colorado Springs confirmed the drop in prices is due to the reopening of the Suncor Refinery last week. However, AAA said
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is bringing back a program that is meant to increase the level of training and professionalism of the whole force. Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST, certification is the standard training all Colorado law enforcement go through. In 2018, the sheriff’s office
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MONUMENT, Colo. (KRDO) — An investigation is underway after a vehicle crashed through a Monument backyard and hit several fences before stopping on top of one. According to Colorado State Patrol, the crash happened near a bus stop along Lake Mist Dr. CSP said a 42-year-old woman drove through a backyard, hit several fences, a
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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (KRDO) — Officials revealed Wednesday that workers have finished a third of the project to build a $56 million facility for cadet education and research on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Air Force Academy The Academy broke ground last summer on the Madera Cyber Innovation Center in summer 2021; the project
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado school districts are pushing lawmakers for more money saying the system has been underfunded for more than a decade. Through the Kids Matter Too campaign students, parents and school districts are sending the message that the state needs to put kids first. Representative Cathy Kipp said in 2000, voters
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PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — In January 2021, a man deemed a habitual offender is accused of leading Pueblo Police on a dangerous chase through a mobile-home park while shooting at them. That man’s case has been at the center of a legal battle between a sitting district judge and the Pueblo County District Attorney ever
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FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The 11th Judicial Assistant District Attorney Wendy Owens has been charged with disorderly conduct and harassment from an incident in a Safeway parking lot. 13 Investigates obtained video of the altercation that shows DA Wendy Owens flipping off a driver before coming up to his car and cussing at him
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado state lawmakers are working on a bill that will prohibit corporate punishment of kids in schools and daycares. Colorado is one of 22 states that still allow corporal punishment. The priority for this bill is to make sure students feel safe in schools. House Bill 1191 prohibits a person
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