- Colorado Springs housing prices set records for the fifth month in a row in June.
- The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum officially opened in Colorado Springs last July -- shortly into the COVID-19 pandemic that kept people confined to their homes for months. Acting CEO Phil Lane explains how the museum made it through the shutdown and what’s ahead.
- Through interviews with nearly 4,000 athletes in more than 50 sports, the nonprofit U.S. Center for SafeSport also found nearly 10 percent said they experienced inappropriate sexual contact themselves.
- The death was ruled a homicide last year, but the 4th Judicial District Attorney later ruled the use of force was justified.
- Eight-time national javelin champion Kara Winger lives and trains in Colorado Springs and is getting ready to compete in her fourth Olympic games after overcoming an injury to her ACL.
- Comedian Jay Gillespie worked the Denver standup scene for eight years before taking his act on the road in 2018, playing shows in New York, Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest. Now, he spends his nights talking to a webcam in a vacant Trinidad storefront in Southern Colorado.
- A brand new, $65 million Summit House Complex at the top of America’s Mountain is set to open next week.
- The county knows each unhoused veteran and can house each of them. Now a national group is recognizing the feat.
- Police also said the man appears to have been angry over not being invited to the family birthday party he attacked overnight on Saturday.
- An alpaca ranch seeking to be a safe haven for transgender people has exposed some cultural tensions in deep red Custer County.
- The top general at U.S. Space Command said during a congressional subcommittee hearing Wednesday that expensive communications infrastructure would need to be duplicated in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, if the U.S. Space Command were to move there from Colorado Springs.
- A lot of Colorado is made up of rural or frontier areas, and that means a lot of Colorado is facing a primary care shortage.
- Lakewood’s tight knit community of ethnic Serbs gathered to remember one of their own Saturday, a young man gunned down with nine others at a Boulder King Soopers last week.
- It’s a stark example of the persistent difficulty in recruiting young talent for the daunting workloads facing Colorado’s most isolated medical outposts.
- Rio silver medalist Sophia Herzog was all set to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, then the pandemic happened.
