- Evaporation from ponds reduces the amount of water in the river basin, which could affect downstream water users.
- There are groups of women in the San Luis Valley who craft elaborate scenes using embroidery, detailing scenes from farms, labor history and mountain landscapes in their region.
- More than half a million people went to the 11-day Colorado State Fair in Pueblo this year. Despite a slow start, thanks in part to a Friday night downpour, 100 degree heat later in the week didn't seem to have an effect.
- It takes a lot of electricity to run municipal water systems, but a new hydroelectric plant under construction in Pueblo is designed to help cut some of those energy costs.
- Pies, pickles and other delicacies are now on display at the Colorado State Fair. The goodies are part of the pantry competition where home cooks from around the state vie to prove their kitchen prowess.
- About half a million people are expected to attend the 11-day fair which has been taking place for more than 150 years.
- Concert ticket sales were up 40 to 50 percent ahead of last year and some shows are sold out. The big name lineup includes country music’s Lady A, rapper Lil Jon and classic rocker Pat Benatar among others..
- A $30,000 restoration is underway for the clock that was installed in 1912, but was nearly junked decades ago.
- A voting seat and an alternate position are opening up on the Colorado Springs Planning Commission. It's the board that reviews new land development and helps hone the city’s long-range plans.
- A new proposal may change plans for an Amtrak and Front Range Rail station in Pueblo. County commissioners heard a presentation last week calling for the privately owned historic Union Depot to revert back to its original purpose of serving train passengers.
- Residents said the 400-unit Creekwalk Apartments project will add to existing traffic chokepoints around the South Nevada Avenue area.
- Excavators putting in a drain near the historic adobe Francisco Fort Museum last summer dug up unexpected artifacts, including pottery shards and animal bones, representing both Indigenous and Euro-American cultures.
- An 1880s church and a classical-revival style school in Pueblo are among sites benefitting from a project evaluating what hazardous materials are inside them. Both are getting interest from developers that they may not have seen before.
- A helicopter flying at 55 miles per hour, with an 85-foot-diameter sensing device dangling below it, crisscrossed an area east of Colorado Springs. The specialized device can sense some 2,000 feet into the earth.
- During the past eight years, workers at the Pueblo site destroyed nearly 800,000 weapons filled with dangerous mustard gas. The stockpile had been kept in earth covered shelters there since the 1950s.
- Imagery of Indigenous people, the steel mill and a chile pepper are part of the winning design in Pueblo’s levee mural contest. The design will become part of the growing series of murals painted on levee along the Arkansas River near Pueblo's historic Union Avenue district.
