COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — During a work session Monday for next year’s city budget, the City Council decided to approve allocating additional funding to the Homeless Outreach Program (HOP Team) operated since mid-2019 by the city’s fire department. The department had recently expressed concern about the continued availability of grant funding that has supported
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The impacts of the University of Virgina on campus shooting are being felt here in Southern Colorado.
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PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The rural community of Pueblo West will soon have much needed funding for road maintenance, thanks to voter approval of ballot Question 6C on Tuesday. The question to raise the sales tax 1% for the next ten years (beginning Jan. 1 ) passed by a margin of 53% to 47%.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A sign of hope from Thursday’s newly-released inflation numbers. The latest Consumer Price Index report shows prices are up 7.7 percent — down from 8.2 percent last month. It’s a decrease even better than economists expected. Tatiana Bailey, the Executive Director of Data-Driven Economic Strategies, sat down with KRDO’s Mallory
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — An expected threefold increase in the the number of people living downtown over the next two years has a downtown leader asking for safety improvements in the area. Susan Edmondson, president and CEO of the Downtown Development Authority, told the City Council this week that nearly 2,100 apartment units will
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The renovated Acacia Park welcomes the return of the ice skating rink located on 115 East Platte Avenue.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — It’s looking like next school year, children in Colorado will receive free lunch every day at school. Unofficial 2022 Election results show proposition FF passing easily with 55 percent of the vote, creating the Healthy School Meals For All program. Starting next school year, K-12 kids will receive free lunch,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A proposed outdoor amphitheater for north Colorado Springs is one step closer to being built. Wednesday evening, the Colorado Springs City Planning Commission approved the Sunset Amphitheater in a 6-3 vote. However, it’s subject to certain conditions. Now, the project will advance to the City Council for final approval. The
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Several areas along West Colorado Avenue between Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs, currently in an unincorporated region known as “No Man’s Land,” have become part of the Colorado Springs city limits for the first time. City of Colorado Springs The City Council voted Tuesday to annex three parcels —
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Along with an earlier approval to raise natural gas rates but reduce electric rates this winter, Colorado Springs Utilities also proposes to increase water and wastewater rates. Scott Shirola, manager of pricing and rates for the utility, said Monday that the proposed water and wastewater increases would add around $6
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — If Daylight Saving Time ending has you feeling groggy, you’re not alone. A concerning jump in driver fatigue has Colorado State Patrol (CSP) sounding the alarm. According to CSP crash data, crashes due to fatigue or a driver falling asleep have more than doubled in just the last year, from
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PUEBLO, Colo (KRDO) — One program in Pueblo is seeing major success in catching criminals. Pueblo Police says since its inception in 2016, their Safe Streets Program has arrested 95 percent of the suspects featured. The Safe Streets Task Force, which includes Pueblo Police, Pueblo County Sheriff, and the FBI decide together what wanted suspects
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Next Wednesday’s annual Season of Sharing holiday food drive comes at a time when the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic and the economy are creating unusual challenges for the Care and Share Food Bank of Southern Colorado. KRDO Officials said that inflation is up 8.5%, the cost of acquiring food is
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A new Teller County Nurse Triage line is helping provide patients calling 9-1-1 with more access to care. The new teller nurse triage line will divide callers into 3 groups Urgent medical care, at home and on site services and virtual care.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPCSO) recently launched the Community Service Specialist (CSS) Unit. As the largest county in the state, with around 200,000 people to protect and serve, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says it’s introduced this new unit to help respond to non-emergent calls for
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Some Black Forest residents are speaking out against the planned expansion of Flying Horse North, a residential community between Colorado Springs and Monument. KRDO The project’s developer — Flying Horse Development, LLC — already had approval to build more than 200 homes in the community, but only 80 were
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)–A Colorado Springs non-profit is seeing a recent surge in clients thanks to a new program. It’s called ‘First Visitor’ and it works to connecting Colorado parents with basic child care needs. Leaders from ‘First Visitor’ say they helped more than 300 families during the 2020 pandemic. Now, that numbers is closer to 700 as families
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The county’s planning commission ended a 3-1/2-hour public hearing in a tie vote on recommendations for a controversial plan to expand the current development of Flying Horse North (FHN), in north central Black Forest. KRDO Just before 3 p.m., commissioners voted 4-4 on the project, with three commissioners absent
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — With six days out from the 2022 Midterm Election, new data shows ballots this year are lagging behind the amount collected by this time in 2018. Six days out from the 2018 election, 951,431 ballots were returned. This year, ballots are about 90,000 less, sitting at 862,637. There are many
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