Bipartisan poll finds spiking concern over water supply and climate change in Colorado and Western states
The results also suggest broad and growing support for policies promoting environmental stewardship and those increasing protections for and access to public lands.
The Colorado Symphony is getting a new principal conductor. And he wants to shake things up to stay relevant
Oundjian says the symphony needs to balance classical music traditions with the evolution necessary to remain relevant.
Colorado Springs expands area where it’s illegal to sit or lie in public right of way, sparking outcry from advocates for homeless
Colorado Springs City Council voted Tuesday to increase the size of a downtown district where it’s illegal to sit or lie down in public rights of way.
Colorado Springs will pay nearly $3 million to family of De’Von Bailey to settle lawsuit in his shooting death at hands of police
In addition to the $2.975 million the city will pay, it has also agreed to several reforms in the police department, including annual anti-bias training for officers.
Air Force Academy cadets used to learn military strategy in classrooms. Now they’re using war-gaming flight simulators
Flight simulators are not new to the academy grounds, though in the past their use was focused on teaching cadets the basic principles of flying aircraft.
It’s not just Denver, housing prices are also skyrocketing in Colorado Springs, and it may be a while before they slow down
They’re still setting new records, and one expert says it might be a decade before housing prices cool off along the Front Range.
‘Out of the cycle of poverty, permanently’: Colorado Springs ‘tiny home’ community opens for at-risk young adults
Potential residents will be nominated from human services organizations in Colorado Springs. Initial leases will last for two years to allow tenants to adjust to adult responsibilities and process trauma.
Cripple Creek hopes a 9-month moratorium on new short-term rentals will ease its workforce housing crisis
Following other scrambling local governments in Colorado ski towns, Cripple Creek has issued a nine-month moratorium on opening or operating new short-term rental properties.
A new skyscraper could be coming to Colorado Springs. Not everyone is thrilled
A proposal to put a 25-story apartment building, and a separate, 11-story office building, has some looking to Colorado Springs’ future, but not everyone is convinced that the buildings would be a good fit.
Living costs rise in Colorado Springs — above the national average — and to its highest recorded level ever
And they’re up in Denver too.
Inside its 14-story ‘cocoon,’ restoration work continues on Air Force Academy chapel
See photos of the $150 million renovation in the works.
Incarcerated people are fighting Colorado’s wildfires — including this week’s Kruger Rock Fire
A law passed this year by the state legislature paved the way for more inmates to help fight fires in Colorado. Now they’re getting to work.
After taking a dip, housing prices have inched back up in Denver and Colorado Springs in October
The median price for a “detached” single family home in Metro Denver in October was up to $585,000.
Colorado’s veteran living centers prevented COVID-19 better than similar facilities, audit finds
A report released by Colorado’s State Auditor’s Office showed that state-run facilities that provide care for honorably discharged veterans and their spouses were better at preventing the spread of COVID-19 than private facilities.
He bought land in Park County before he could afford to build a home. So, he dug a hole there instead and lives in it.
Jim McKinney’s “Hobbit House” is one of many makeshift homes on cheap plots of land in Park County that attract those with limited means from around the U.S.
