- Five council members had informally chosen Stephannie Fortune back in December, but there were not enough votes in a Monday special session to appoint the candidate.
- Colorado Springs saw construction valued at an estimated $4.3 billion, while Pueblo single-family housing permits rose by 28 percent last year.
- The Environmental Protection Agency’s soil clean ups of contaminants around nearly 1800 residences in the south Pueblo site is expected to end later in 2022, but a massive slag pile still needs to be addressed.
- Stephannie Fortune is 16-year resident of Colorado Springs and moved into District 3 in November.
- City Council unanimously approved the preliminary rezoning plan that would add more than 850 new residences, along with additional commercial, retail and open spaces.
- More than half of renters in the city of Pueblo are considered cost-burdened, which means they pay more than 30 percent of their income for housing.
- Recent work at the Ludlow Massacre memorial about an hour south of Pueblo revealed something unexpected.
- The developer had filed a complaint against the city in court earlier this fall.
- More than 7,000 children in Pueblo County earned $100 each for reading this summer. There was a rocky start for some kids, but a stellar finish for many of them.
- It looks like some 10,000 people might have ambulance service again in five southern Colorado communities early next year, as voters in Fremont County look toward approving a measure aimed at restoring it.
- Custer County voters are rejecting raising the sales and use tax by 2 percent to cover the cost of a new justice center.
- The plan commits to cultural equity through inclusion and racial justice. Key elements include nurturing creative talent, collaborations and funding.
- 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.
