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• City celebrates golden anniversary of Sister City agreement

  January 24, 2012 7:25 PM

  The cities of Colorado Springs and Fujiyoshida, Japan are celebrating a golden anniversary this year as the sister cities relationship between the two communities has held strong for 50 years. To commemorate the occasion, Mayor Steve Bach and the Colorado Springs City Council accepted a tapestry Tuesday that was... more »

• Owner of farm where listeria outbreak originated faces labor charges

  January 19, 2012 3:05 PM

  The owner of the southeastern Colorado farm where the listeria outbreak was pinpointed last year faces new charges from the U.S. Department of Labor. The departrments Wage and Hour Division has fined cantaloupe grower Eric Jensen, who owns and operates Jensen Farms in Holly, $4,250 in civil money penalties... more »

• Robbery suspects leave path of destruction Play Video

  January 13, 2012 6:33 PM

  A trio of armed robbery suspects left a trail of destruction through Colorado Springs Friday morning as they tried to avoid capture. Officers say at around 8:30 this morning two men with guns followed an employee into the Bowie's Gold and Diamonds on E. Pikes Peak Avenue. They men robbed... more »

• Grade schools closed in Monument

  December 1, 2011 11:58 AM

  Administrators in Lewis Palmer School District 38 have closed all elementary schools today because of the changing weather conditions. All morning and afternoon kindergarten and preschool classes are canceled as well. The district has been under a 2 hour delayed start for the day. more »

• Walmart caller rang twice

  November 25, 2011 7:18 PM

  A man angry with Walmart shut down the retailer's Woodland Park store by calling in a bomb threat twice on Friday morning, one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Incident commander Sgt. James Halloran of the Woodland Park Police Department says the calls were received about 5... more »

• County wants to know your opinion

  July 25, 2011 9:20 PM

  The decision makers within the various government offices of El Paso County want to know how citizens feel about the value they receive for their tax dollars and where they would rate the county as a place to live. These questions are among a list of inquiries posted in... more »

• Hardwork, heavy equipment and dynamite help reopen road

  February 20, 2011 5:36 PM

  US Highway 50 west of Cotopaxi has reopened for the first time in nearly a week. Workers with the Colorado Department of Transportation lifted the barriers just before 12:30 p.m. Sunday. An estimated 7,000 tons of rock fell on the roadway last Monday in an area approximately 2 miles west... more »

• Insurance claims for Boulder fire hit $217 million

  September 21, 2010 8:29 AM

  Insurance companies estimate that the fire that swept through the canyons west of Boulder on Labor Day caused an estimated $217 million in damages, dwarfing the previous high caused by the Hayman Fire in 2002. The estimate from the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association includes destroyed homes, smoke damage,... more »

• Small grass fire in Monument is out

  September 20, 2010 11:15 AM

  A small brush fire in Monument burned less than an acre before being put out by crews. No structures were threatened. There were no injuries. Smoke from the fire prompted the closure of Lewis-Palmer Elementary School for the day. Children were taken to Lewis-Palmer Middle School to be picked... more »

• National cattle meeting in Colorado probes antitrust

  August 27, 2010 12:52 PM

  Meatpackers, feeders and hundreds of ranchers from around the country are attending a workshop the Obama administration is holding in Colorado to discuss antitrust issues in the livestock industry. The daylong workshop in Fort Collins drew about 1,500 people as it got underway Friday. It's one of five the... more »

• Whooping Cough confirmed in Pueblo

  August 5, 2010 10:35 AM

  Two Whooping Cough cases have been confirmed in Pueblo, prompting the health department to issue a warning to parents to make sure their children are vaccinated. The medical name for Whooping Cough is Pertussis. Your children should be up-to-date on their TDaP vaccine and booster shots. If you have... more »

• Colorado State rescinds gun ban after court ruling

  May 5, 2010 4:49 PM

  Guns and some other weapons will continue to be legal on the Colorado State University System's two campuses. The CSU Board of Governors voted Wednesday to rescind a campus gun ban, citing a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling last month that overturned a similar ban at the University of... more »

• Mom in Balloon Boy saga to begin serving sentence

  April 7, 2010 5:04 PM

  The mother of a boy purported to have flown away in a runaway balloon will begin her community service sentence this weekend for her role in the hoax. Mayumi Heene will spend 10 weekends working at nonprofits. Her husband, Richard Heene, completed his 90-day sentence Sunday. It included jail... more »

• Kowalczyk signs Colorado State A.D. contract

  February 8, 2010 4:35 PM

  Colorado State athletic director Paul Kowalczyk has signed a five-year contract extension. It does not include a salary increase. The extension takes effect July 1 and runs through June 30, 2015. Kowalczyk joined Colorado State as athletic director in April 2006 after spending six years as athletic... more »

• Colorado unemployment rose in December

  January 22, 2010 11:35 AM

  In the midst of the biggest retail time of the year, Colorado's unemployment rate rose in December. Colorado's seasonally adjusted rate increased six-tenths of one percentage point to 7.5 percent in December. In December of 2008, the rate was 5.8 percent. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment... more »

• DNA solves 2004 Colorado Springs murder

  December 30, 2009 11:27 AM

  An inmate slated for release from a Colorado prison next week gave a DNA sample as a condition of his freedom. That DNA matched the suspect for a 2004 Colorado Springs murder. "We were notified about that match and we did the work that will be needed to do... more »

• Disabled Colorado Springs veteran earns unique college degree

  December 16, 2009 1:30 PM

  Steve Bassett is a disabled Air Force veteran. Friday he'll become the first person to earn a Bachelor of Innovation degree from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The degree is a unique combination of courses in business, engineering, globalization and communication. He is graduating as president of... more »

• Colorado cold-case murder solved

  December 1, 2009 12:52 PM

  Colorado authorities say a man wanted in a 32-year-old slaying in Greeley has been arrested in Florida. Weld County sheriff John Cooke says that 51-year-old Marcello Maldonado-Perez was arrested Tuesday morning at his home in Port Charlotte, Florida. He was being held without bond. Investigators say DNA taken from him... more »

• Arkansas Valley grain elevator slammed with $1.6 million fine

  November 23, 2009 4:31 PM

  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Wage and Hour Division have fined Tempel Grain Elevators more than $1.6 million following the May 29 death of a teenage worker at the company's Haswell grain storage operation. The teen suffocated after being engulfed by grain in one of the... more »

• Grand Junction Salvation Army overrun with bell-ringer applicants

  November 18, 2009 1:37 PM

  One more sign the economy is still struggling: the Salvation Army is seeing a rush for its bell-ringer jobs. The Salivation Army in Grand Junction says it has received 150 applications for 30 jobs that pay $8 an hour and often are filled by disabled residents or the homeless.... more »

• Colorado lawmakers ask Congress to limit energy bill

  November 18, 2009 11:24 AM

  Colorado state lawmakers are asking the U.S. Senate to limit funding for coal and nuclear energy as Congress moves to pass an energy bill. The 20 state lawmakers, all Democrats, say too much emphasis on coal and nuclear energy would reduce funding for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. The... more »

• First El Paso County H1N1 vaccine clinic approaching

  November 10, 2009 2:22 PM

  The first of four H1N1 swine flu vaccine clinics is scheduled for tomorrow in El Paso County. The Health Department is restricting it to residents who are in high risk groups. The vaccine will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis. Clinics are subject to cancellation if the... more »

• Army says it has stopped Pueblo mustard leak

  November 9, 2009 2:26 PM

  The U.S. Army says it has finished work containing a leak of mustard agent at the Pueblo Chemical Depot. The leak was discovered in August by a sensor at one of the "igloos" containing the deadly toxin. The Army then sorted through the stored projectiles and found one leaking... more »

• Boulder hydropower project could get $1.18M

  November 5, 2009 8:36 AM

  A 100-year-old hydroelectric project in Boulder could receive up to $1.18 million in federal stimulus money for upgrades and modernization projects. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Wednesday announced up to $30.6 million in stimulus money for seven projects at existing hydropower facilities. The proposal for the Boulder Canyon Hydroelectric... more »

• Free kidney screenings in Pueblo

  November 3, 2009 4:51 PM

  The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) is designed to identify and educate people at risk - those with diabetes, high blood pressure or a family history of kidney disease. KEEP evaluations will be performed, for free, this Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Pueblo County Conference Room, 1001... more »

• Swine flu deaths in Colorado: 25

  October 28, 2009 2:50 PM

  The number of H1N1 Swine Flu deaths has grown to 25 in Colorado, seven of them children. More than 1300 people have been hospitalized with swine flu. While there's encouraging news coming from the Colorado Department of Helath--the state agency reports that cases of H1N1 Swine Flu in the... more »