The generosity of Gazette readers is helping Eric Knapp, a Gazette newspaper deliverer for more than 40 years, buy another motorhome to live in.
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“My life is full of pressure and expectations. Sometimes emptiness lies just below the surface.”
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to correct the name of the plaintiff's attorney and to remove certain identifying information about…
Calhan High School senior Lynda Hannum has been asking her brother to let her weld for years, and she got her chance Friday. Not at home, but …
Relatives lash out at lengthy sentence for 'ringleader' in rape of 13-year-old Colorado Springs girl
A two-year legal saga over the gang rape of a 13-year-old Colorado Springs girl ended in bedlam Friday, with relatives of the reputed “ringlea…
The cost of fighting a federal lawsuit against Colorado Springs over stormwater permit violations has surpassed the $3 million mark and is sur…
The Colorado Springs City Council reaffirmed its decision Tuesday to impose regulations on short-term rentals.
One of two teen boys accused of plotting a shooting last year at Sabin Middle School in Colorado Springs pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspirac…
Eric Knapp doesn’t have much left, except his girlfriend and two dogs.
A judge Wednesday revealed that prosecutors are in plea talks with one of the two alleged shooters charged in the execution-style killings of …
The parents of a former Springs Ranch Elementary preschooler are threatening to sue El Paso County School District 49, claiming their 3-year-o…
The Colorado Springs Airport can sell about 88 acres of surplus properties to Amazon or another company, the City Council unanimously agreed Tuesday.
A federal lawsuit claims two El Paso County sheriff’s employees were targeted with retaliation after reporting a supervisor for sexual harassment.
The gates at Garden of the Gods opened late Monday because of heavy snowfall that accumulated on the park’s roadways over the weekend, a parks…
Seventy-five people used cardboard, tarps and the warmest sleeping bags they could find to “experience” what it’s like to be homeless and slee…
With few changes, the Colorado Springs City Council unanimously approved the city’s 2019 budget Tuesday.
A man of great intellect, a leader who inspires calmness and a true statesman are among the descriptions colleagues use when talking about Kyl…
All the closures you need to be aware of for Veterans Day.
Last week’s mass shooting at a country and western dance club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., which left 12 people dead, underscores the need for re…
To say that Capt. Lance P. Sijan gave his life in service of his country is not the end of his story.
A federal judge’s ruling this past week that Colorado Springs failed to adequately curb the amount of sediment and pollutants flowing down Fou…
Further proof that the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is growing up came Friday from the Board of Regents.
Colorado Springs violated its federal stormwater permit in all three locations cited in a lawsuit filed by the Environmental Protection Agency…
Closings
Closings
A former El Paso County Republican Party chairman has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the widow of a pedestrian he hit and killed in downtown Colorado Springs in March 2017.
Ten years ago, Focus on the Family President Jim Daly asked New Life Church pastor Brady Boyd if they could put their heads together and do so…
Veterans Day is Monday, here's what will be closed in observance of the holiday.
Closings
The Colorado Springs Airport wants to sell 88 acres in its business park to a "Fortune 500 corporation" it does not identify, city documents show. The development comes as Amazon has opened a warehouse-distribution facility that employs 300 just north of Milton E Proby Parkway near the airport's rental car hub.
An El Paso County Court judge who was slapped with a scathing job review in this year’s Blue Book will soon be out of a job.
CRIPPLE CREEK • Nearly six months after being suspended, Cripple Creek-Victor School District RE-1 Superintendent Les Lindauer has lost his job.
Five Pikes Peak region school districts have financing questions on Tuesday's ballot, including in Lewis-Palmer District 38, Harrison District 2 and Manitou Springs District 14.
Colorado’s conservative bastion, the 5th Congressional District, held fast in Tuesday’s midterm election as Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Dou…
The Republican stronghold in Teller County isn’t budging.
Ellicott School District 22 will hold its annual Veterans Appreciation Day program at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Ellicott High School gym, 375 …
A project of three students from Mitchell High School, who wanted to do something for their fellow classmates in need of being properly outfit…
The Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC has named Vance Brown, founder and chairman of Cherwell Software LLC and CEO of the National Cybersecurity Center, as 2018 Business Citizen of the Year, its top award.
The executive director, chief financial officer and founding principal have left their posts at Colorado Military Academy, which opened in Aug…
A 20-year-old man convicted in the December 2016 rape of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado Springs has violated his probation, a judge ruled Friday.
Hours after pulling a gun on friends in jest, a Colorado Springs gang member lashed out for real, police say, fatally shooting a man he had an…
FOUNTAIN • For the first time, Fountain Valley School’s state climbing champions have a home cliff.
Colorado anti-tax activist Douglas Bruce was set to make a tidy sum two years ago when he sold a dilapidated home in Old Colorado City. But th…
WOODLAND PARK • Multimedia Christian evangelist Andrew Wommack says evangelical Christians put President Donald Trump in office in the 2016 election.
An ex-El Paso County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Wednesday to drunken driving, an offense that cost him his job in law enforcement.
A Colorado Springs felon was on the hunt for rent money when he fatally shot a 30-year-old man during a heist at a drug den, prosecutors alleg…
Time is short to save some money on what can amount to an expensive college application process.
Sixteen-year-old Orion Wilson’s first paid job won’t involve asking customers if they want ketchup with their fries or a paper or plastic bag.
A judge on Friday extended the legal limbo of the man who admitted to killing three people and wounding nine at a Planned Parenthood in Colora…
A Fountain man was sentenced to prison Friday for fatally shooting his father in what the defendant’s attorney called “a moment of fear after …
