- 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 has 1,700 new potential dwelling units under consideration right now. That’s more than double what the city has seen in any year since 2003.
- The goal is to honor the city's heritage, both as an industrial and agricultural powerhouse, according to the project's developers.
- Affordability indices for both homeownership and apartment rents are trending in the opposite direction than what the master plan calls for.
- 227 people died due to accidental drug overdoses and intoxications in El Paso County last year—a 22 percent increase from the previous year.
- “It's been a really, really busy month when it comes to fire weather concerns, unfortunately.”
- The latest seasonal outlook points toward higher than normal temperatures with less rain and snow forecast for this region into early summer.
- 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.
- Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich owns more than a quarter of the mill's parent company EVRAZ plc. Sanctions against him have created some challenges.
- 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.
- During the last 20 years the Rio Grande River’s annual water flows in southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley have decreased.
- The concept includes commercial and residential uses – along with parking and a local and intercity bus station.
