- The Penrose EMS was shut down earlier this summer. There weren't enough volunteers to keep it going.
- The new building would house the courthouse, county jail and sheriff’s offices.
- Many of the buildings receiving the funds house small businesses owned by economically or socially disadvantaged people — including Colorado's oldest family run business, the R&R market in San Luis.
- An installation titled "Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado" is part of a larger Borderlands project at History Colorado’s Southern Colorado museums.
- The first commercial traders once traveled down the Santa Fe Trail. Driving wagons hundreds of miles from the Missouri River to New Mexico wasn’t easy.
- September and October are normal peak times to see golden aspen leaves here. Here's where to check them out in Southern Colorado and beyond.
- Nearly all of southern Colorado has seen decreases in vacant housing units during the last decade according to the 2020 census
- Professional horse trainer Ginger Gaffney got an unusual call for help about eight years ago. It was from a ranch near her home in Northern New Mexico that serves as an alternative to prison. The ranch was having horse troubles. Gaffney stopped by and was astounded at what she found. She wrote about it in her memoir “Half Broke.” Gaffney and Ayla Jarvis, a former resident of the ranch, spoke with Andrea Dukakis.
- Members of Trinidad’s 132-year-old Temple Aaron are celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, this week. The congregation is growing after the temple nearly closed for good five years ago.
- A new testing facility for a transportation technology known as hyperloop could soon be coming to Pueblo, potentially creating 1,000 new jobs.
- Fluffy cows, carnival rides and, of course, indulgently greasy fair food are all back.
- Council voted against the 2424 Garden of the Gods development rezoning on a 5-4 vote.
- Like the state as a whole, the population in parts of southeastern Colorado grew more than the national average, according to the state demographer’s 2020 census tables released earlier this month. But other areas in the region lost residents.
- The Manitou Incline and Pikes Peak Cog Railway help draw hundreds of thousands of people to Manitou Springs.
- The Loop would connect existing water infrastructure and add a new pipeline to bring water from the southern part of El Paso County to the north.
- The Colorado Department of Agriculture has distributed more than $331,000 in funds.
