1: El Paso County leads the state for suicides and has the second highest rate of suicides per 100,000 residents among the state’s major counties.
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Anyone entering Colorado Springs City Hall for a council meeting or any other business now must pass through metal detectors at the south and …
Former state representative and Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights author Douglas Bruce of Colorado Springs was convicted in absentia of five municipal citations in Pittston, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, opening himself up to a new criminal charge and possibly a prison sentence.
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No cameras will be permitted in court Friday, May 24, 2019, when Patrick Frazee of Florissant, Colorado, is arraigned on first-degree murder charges in the disappearance and presumed killing of missing Woodland Park mother Kelsey Berreth.
At the El Paso County Coroner’s Office, the role of guiding families through the aftermath of suicides and untimely deaths carries a new direc…
Construction crews broke ground this month on a solar array project for Colorado Springs Utilities, to be followed soon by two other arrays.
Colorado Springs officials might soon ask residents if the city can retain up to $7 million in excess tax revenue to improve the city’s parks …
For the second consecutive summer, a shuttle will be about the only option for hundreds of thousands of people to reach the top of Pikes Peak.
An Air Force special operations pilot denies charges that he raped a woman and a young girl and is “eager” to clear his name at trial, his att…
A man who bilked nearly $100,000 in public relocation assistance from victims of high water in Fountain is headed to prison.
Oprah Winfrey's commencement speech Sunday at Colorado College caps an interesting, challenging year for the small, overachieving institution and is a fascinating backstory that all of Colorado Springs can benefit from.
Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help finding the following people for whom felony arrest warrants have been issued.
After being undisputed champ for a year, Colorado Springs has to share top-billing with three other cities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2…
It’s celebration time for thousands of high school and college students in the Pikes Peak region. Here’s a schedule of commencement ceremonies.
A reputed gang member bowed his head and wept Friday as a jury convicted him of first-degree murder for shooting an unarmed man, then joked as…
A reputed gang member who pulled a gun in jest later killed a man for being angry about it, prosecutors told a jury Thursday as his murder tri…
The Broadmoor hotel can move forward with its 93,500-square-foot exhibition hall since the Colorado Springs City Council shot down an appeal T…
Anticipating a marathon appeal hearing over a project proposed by The Broadmoor hotel, the Colorado Springs City Council’s Tuesday meeting wil…
Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help finding the following people for whom felony arrest warrants have been issued.
A 23-year-old Uber customer who beat up and tried to sexually assault a driver in her 60s after requesting a ride in downtown Colorado Springs…
A Harrison School District 2 security guard has been fired after an altercation with a protester during a contentious town hall Saturday with …
Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help finding the following people for whom felony arrest warrants have been issued.
Comcast gave the city of Colorado Springs a $25,000 grant Saturday for community and youth programs, including expanding the city’s Olympic Ci…
A judge's ruling granting a second round of psychological testing will postpone trial for Karrar Noaman Al Khammasi, who is charged in a gun battle that wounded Colorado Springs police Officer Cem Duzel in the head.
Gov. Jared Polis appears poised to sign into law two bipartisan bills that would overhaul the state’s languishing mental health care system.
With a theme of “Love One Another,” based on the New Testament’s book of John, organizers of National Day of Prayer events Thursday are hoping…
Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help finding the following people for whom felony arrest warrants have been issued.
The shortcomings in Colorado’s attempts to deal adequately with juvenile mental health center on the absence of a coordinated statewide system…
An ethics complaint against Colorado Springs City Council President Richard Skorman that was dismissed by fellow council members ended up cost…
A Broadmoor Bluffs man committed fraud when he sold a half-million dollar home in a landslide zone without disclosing that it one day could co…
A court battle to forcibly medicate Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear Jr. could hinge on changing a Pueblo judge’s mind about the p…
Admitted Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear Jr.’s legal limbo is poised to enter its fourth year Friday, when a judge weighs in on w…
On Saturday, preschoolers through fifth graders can build the White House, the Capitol building, the Lincoln Monument, houses, skyscrapers, parks and other structures on a large scale during the 13th annual Box City for Kids event between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at The Colorado Springs School, 21 Broadmoor Ave.
Mark Kennedy, sole finalist for president of the University of Colorado system, came to the Colorado Springs campus Tuesday prepared to field …
Author Kay Warren, whose son, Matthew, died by suicide five years ago, is returning to Colorado Springs Friday for a public presentation calle…
An April 1 cutoff date set last year to cap a natural spring on the road to Cripple Creek has come and gone, and the free water is still flowi…
It’s hard to figure out how to budget, spend sensibly, save prudently and invest advantageously. A first-year elective in financial literacy class is being offered to help.
Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help finding the following people for whom felony arrest warrants have been issued.
Douglas Bruce’s rap sheet might get longer — if the anti-tax activist loses his battle with a Pennsylvania mayor.
The anti-tax activist, former state representative and author of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights bought an Old Colorado City home at 1326 W. Kio…
Out-of-the-box opportunities such as a ukulele class for middle school kids, songwriting and recording classes for high schoolers, adaptive le…
A group dissatisfied with how three Cripple Creek-Victor School District RE-1 board members are doing their jobs has succeeded in collecting 4…
Sure, Wayne Williams now sits on the Colorado Springs City Council while his wife, Holly Williams, serves as an El Paso County commissioner, b…
A man is facing a potential prison sentence after admitting in court Tuesday that he left an injured woman to die after crashing a dirt bike i…
Right hands raised and eyes on the horizon, Colorado Springs’ mayor and two at-large council members reclaimed their offices Tuesday while a t…
The sole finalist as the next superintendent of Academy School District 20 in Colorado Springs has withdrawn her application. Kimberly Hough, an assistant superintendent in the Loudoun County School District in Virginia, “respectfully removed herself as the recommended candidate.”
Results are cemented in Colorado Springs’ April 2 election after the final 100 ballots or so were counted last week, according to the city cle…
Sustainable, affordable and reliable energy is among the chief priorities for Colorado Springs Utilities as the organization develops its visi…
