Southern Colorado is being slammed with dust and wind. They’ll lessen tomorrow, but be back later this week
As for the noticeable tan haze in the sky, a meteorologist says it’s largely composed of dust from northwest New Mexico.
Colorado Springs needs more housing that more people can afford. These groups have some ideas on how to do it
Some new ideas include using tax rebates to spur new development and keep rents low so Colorado Springs doesn’t lose workers essential to making the city tick: teachers, firefighters, police officers and others.
Florissant, Colorado, is home to some of the biggest petrified tree stumps in the world. They’re 34 million years old
Despite being a fourth-generation Coloradan, 75-year-old Karen Michalak of Elizabeth, Colorado, still wasn’t sure exactly what the fossil beds were when she recently wrote in for our series Colorado Wonders.
A Summit County nonprofit is building affordable housing for middle-class residents — of Park County
The homes planned for the new project in Fairplay are available solely to applicants working at least 32 hours a week within Park County, with priority given to local educators, law enforcement, first responders and municipal workers.
For the man who lives in a hole in Park County, winter is a ‘constant battle’
We met Jim McKinney last year as he was living in a hole he dug as he was trying to build his house. High building costs have kept him in the hole this winter as he tries to complete his new home.
Home prices skyrocketed again in Denver and Colorado Springs in February, but people kept buying them anyway
Median home prices in the greater Denver Metropolitan Area shot up $35,000 in a single month, up to $575,000. In the Pikes Peak region, prices were up to $465,000.
Pueblo is still home to nearly 200,000 mustard gas weapons from WWII. Workers have started dismantling the last of them.
The Pueblo chemical depot has been destroying hundreds of thousands of World War II-era chemical weapons since 2016. It’s now heading into its final stages, where it starts intentionally blowing up much of the remaining stockpile in a controlled isolation chamber.
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.
