KRCC Staff

Pro Cycling Challenge to come through Colorado Springs…Cannon City School Board to discuss budget cuts…Chipotle Mexican Grill aired first national commercial…and more. Click for full index.

CDOT considering using the shoulders of I-70 as additional lanes… Pueblo trying to expand tourism with additions to the Riverwalk… Bill aims to ban credit checks for non-finance related jobs… and more. Click for full Index.

New house bill proposed would require welfare participants to pass drug test…Retiree benefits cut while costs rise for El Paso County Retirement Plan…Over 50 % of Pueblo’s High School graduates are ill prepared for college, and more. Click for the complete Index.

The search has resumed for two empty fuel tanks that were jettisoned from an F-16 during an in-flight emergency over Colorado (KOAA, KRDO).

El Paso County citizens will get to see the first debate between the two candidates for sheriff tomorrow (Gazette). Mail-in ballots for Colorado’s Aug. 10 primary elections for the U.S.

In Pueblo, city council agreed on a 6-1 vote to ask voters in November whether to impose a 4.3 percent sales tax on medical marijuana and related paraphernalia (Chieftain).

In Canon City, a new administrative-maximum security prison will open its doors September 1 to more than 300 inmates (KRDO).

In Colorado Springs, the city council is considering what to do with nearly a $600,000 revenue excess from the city that it can’t touch due to TABOR laws (Gazette, KRDO).

People who want to vote in the Aug. 10 primary election have until Monday to register (Gazette, KOAA).

Memorial Hospital is looking at its current structure and, alternatively, what would happen if the city spun off the hospital as an independent nonprofit (Gazette).

Canon City is a step closer to lifting a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, but there will be big restrictions (KRDO).

Commercial real estate broker Tim Leigh has dropped out of the race for mayor of Colorado Springs but is considering running for an at-large City Council seat (Gazette, Business Journal).

In Monument, the Lewis-Palmer School Board is moving quickly to name a short-term replacement for the former superintendent that resigned in June (KRDO).

Colorado Springs Mayor Lionel Rivera is calling for a three-year timeout from the part of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights that limits how much tax money the city of Colorado […]

A panel examining options for the future of Memorial Hospital had a huge turnout for last night’s meeting (Gazette).

The state of Colorado has delayed medicaid payments to area health agencies (Trindad Times).