- An annual report from a trade group representing downtown Colorado Springs is touting a strong post-pandemic recovery for the city’s core, with signs of accelerating development in the years to come.
- Twenty years after the black mark left by the Air Force Academy’s sexual assault scandal, the problem only looks to be getting worse. But there are efforts underway to help solve it.
- The decrease in crime in the state’s second-largest city since 2010 coincides with a sharp rise in spending for the city’s police department, the report’s authors say.
- It took a break, but now it's back, and there's literally tons of ice to prove it.
- The northern foothills and Front Range could get six to eight inches of snow. And Wednesday and Thursday nights will be very cold.
- Georgetown recorded winds of 100 miles per hour Monday. Most of metro Denver could see gusts over 30 miles per hour.
- Respondents show particular concern around water resources and drought, with 77 percent believing conservation of Colorado River water is in need of “urgent action.”
- In an effort to reduce recidivism and keep young people out of the criminal justice system, Colorado is one of six states experimenting with a new program that focuses on rehabilitation and mentorship.
- More than a year after splashy headlines detailing a proposal to build Colorado Springs’ tallest building, the project has yet to break ground.
- The academy said 21-year-old Hunter Brown of Lake Charles, Louisiana, collapsed while leaving his dorm for class on Monday morning.
- Steve McEndree, a 4th generation rancher who works 18,000 acres of land, says the animals were worth about $100,000 and were not insured.
- The median price of a single family home in Colorado Springs was $441,000 in December. That’s down from a record high of $495,000 last June and is the lowest price seen in the region since September 2021.
- It ascends 2,000 vertical feet in less than a mile and climbing it 1,000 times in a year averages out to about 20 times every week.
- Aston, a bartender at the club, was remembered as a caring, sarcastic and intelligent man with a talent for poetry.
- The fundraiser came just days after a shooting left five people dead and nearly two dozen injured. But the fundraiser was planned before Richard Fierro — an Army veteran — gained national attention for helping stop the attack at local LGBTQ nightclub Club Q on November 19.
- Five people were killed and 19 others were injured in the attack on the LGBTQ club on Saturday night.
