A group seeking to help homeless veterans needs a rapid re-supply of winter coats and warm socks. The El Paso County Homeless Veterans Coalition needs dozens of coats and an arsenal of socks to equip the 200 veterans expected at the group's annual "Stand Down" Oct. 17. The gear would...

In the alphabet soup of military acronyms, Air Force Space Command's Gen. William Shelton has added a mouthful. He's now the COMAFFOR for USSTRATCOM. It's a change that involves manpower charts and PowerPoint slides. But it's actually pretty simple. Shelton now commands combat...

Thousands of federal workers in the Pikes Peak region were back on the job Monday, but the tension of the government shutdown remained. "Everyone is holding their breath to see what happens next," said Fort Carson spokeswoman Dee McNutt. "It's not business as usual yet." The end of...

At the end of the day, the government shutdown is somebody else's fault, congressmen croon - and Colorado lawmakers have joined the chorus. Republicans are blaming Democrats for the shutdown that put thousands of government workers off the job in Colorado Springs. Colorado's...

As the federal shutdown ground into its third day on Thursday, Fort Carson civilian workers voiced their frustrations with a noisy protest at the post's main gate. Dozens of members of the American Federation of Government Employees chanted about ending the shutdown, eliciting...

The Veterans Affairs department has agreed to buy land for a national cemetery in El Paso County, officials announced Wednesday. The veterans cemetery will be off Bradley Road, east of Powers Boulevard, southeast of Colorado Springs, said Victor Fernandez, chairman of the Pikes Peak...

Federal offices around the Pikes Peak region ground to a near standstill Tuesday as thousands of workers were sent home on unpaid furloughs. The layoffs hit hardest at area military bases. More than 1,000 workers at the Air Force Academy, 400 workers at Schriever Air Force Base, 2,200...

Without a budget deal, thousands of civilian Defense Department employees in the Pikes Peak region - including instructors at the Air Force Academy - face furlough starting Tuesday, but an 11th-hour agreement blunted even deeper military impacts of government shutdown. Congress on...

Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is hoping a Colorado road map to reducing suicides among veterans will be useful nationwide. Bennet on Friday sent a letter to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki pointing to a report on suicide from a panel of Colorado experts and calling for...

Colorado Springs Congressman Doug Lamborn is backing a deal that could avert a government shutdown while setting up another showdown over Obamacare. The Republican is still all about undermining the Affordable Care Act. But he is joining a GOP movement to push the health care fight to...