Shanna Lewis joined KRCC in 2021 as the Growth/General Assignment Reporter.
Professional Background:
Shanna joined KRCC after 15 years as an independent Southern Colorado based radio producer, journalist and photographer, regularly contributing to KRCC and CPR News, as well as NPR. Her freelance print and photography have been featured on NationalGeographic.com, The Denver Post, The National Post (Canada), High Country News, U.S. News and World Report and other publications. Shanna served on the board of directors for KLZR 91.7 FM, a community radio station in rural Colorado, for 15 years. She’s contributed to and collaborated on numerous award-winning broadcast, online and multimedia projects and is the recipient of multiple awards for reporting and photography.
The proposed Sangre de Cristo International Dark Sky Reserve would cover some 4,200 miles, stretching from Salida south to the New Mexico border and from Alamosa east to LaVeta.
Local Colorado Springs business and economics experts focused on the changes and challenges created by population growth in the area during a recent El Pomar Foundation event. The expert panel discussed housing, jobs, racial diversity and more.
It’s still in the planning stages, but recent federal legislation is a step toward a new section of interstate that would be part of the U.S. Ports-to-Plains Corridor that runs from Mexico to Canada.
Pueblo’s levee once held the Guinness World Record for the largest outdoor mural. But repairs to the levee destroyed that artwork. Now construction is done and artists are back at work.
Sangre de Cristo, South Park and Cache La Poudre River National Heritage Areas were designated in 2009 as places where history, culture and nature create a nationally important landscape.
Officials say the new data needs to be taken with a grain of salt since it includes information from 2020, the first year of the pandemic when all kinds of things changed and there were issues with data collection.
Projects will cover roads, transit and non-motorized infrastructure, aimed at meeting six stated goals: safe, equitable, sustainable, accessible, connected and efficiently reliable.