- The Colorado State Fair is finalizing preparations for its late August opening.
- In a kick-off event Wednesday, Colorado Springs community leaders including Mayor John Suthers and City Council President Richard Skorman announced preparations for the city’s 150th birthday.
- The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking public comment on a draft management plan for 658,000 acres of public lands in Eastern Colorado, including land along
- After a four-year effort to acquire a 280-acre parcel from a private property owner, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is set to expand on the park’s west side.
- The City of Colorado Springs is beginning construction on a stormwater detention and sediment collection facility in the far northeast corner of Garden of the Gods Park.
- On June 8, The Crystal Park, Upper Skyway, and Crystal Hills neighborhoods will participate in a wildfire evacuation drill.
- El Paso County Commissioners are holding another public meeting on plans to expand I-25 between Monument and Castle Rock.
- A report on the health of Colorado’s forests centers on dealing with dead trees as a result of beetles.
- The Colorado Department of Transportation is hosting a series of meetings in Colorado Springs and Monument on the I-25 Gap project, as well as two telephone town halls.
- Parkside resident Mike Finkbiner was a roofing contractor during the original construction of the Colorado Springs subdivision, and says Mountain Shadows as a whole was “pretty well planned” when it
- Carla Albers and her family moved into their Mountain Shadows home in 1990. They’d always loved the westside and figured it would be a starter home, but ended up loving
