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Year-long test of safety improvements to start June 1 along West Colorado Avenue in Colorado Springs
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (189+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- As organizers prepare for the annual Territory Days festival on Memorial Day weekend, city officials are planning to make safety upgrades that could improve the atmosphere for that event, and for other future gatherings along bustling…...
Board approves giving Colorado Springs Utilities CEO a nearly $150 K raise
14+ hour, 36+ min ago (542+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - On Wednesday, the Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) board approved a nearly $150, 000 pay raise for Travas Deal, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CSU. The proposal was introduced by Renee Adams, the Chief Human Resources Officer. The board…...
Colorado Springs returns Trackchair Program for guided hikes in local parks
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (272+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The City of Colorado Springs announces that free reservations are now open for the Trackchair Program, which helps people with mobility challenges explore local parks and open spaces using all-terrain Trackchairs. The city says that due…...
Absolutely Colorado: Care and Share partners with USPS for annual food drive
1+ week, 5+ day ago (197+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Care and Share is partnering with the U. S. Postal Service for its annual "Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive" on May 9, the nation's largest one-day food drive, which has collected nearly 2 billion pounds of food over 34 years, officials…...
Colorado Springs man finishes largest commercial puzzle in the world
3+ week, 3+ day ago (249+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Four years ago, Lou Salas lay down next to his newest puzzle box to put the size into scale. Over 800 hours and 60, 000 pieces later, Salas fit all seven continents and hundreds of the world's wonders into…...
Driver Alert: Partial, full closures of South Academy/Hancock intersection in Colorado Springs start today
3+ week, 3+ day ago (226+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- We're now three months into the second major construction project along South Academy Boulevard, and the next phase begins on Monday. For the next two weeks, the east side of the South Academy Boulevard/Hancock Expressway…...
What took so long for crumbling Circle Drive in Colorado Springs to be repaved? City leaders explain process
4+ week, 1+ day ago (596+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- At a media briefing on Tuesday, an official said that it's been at least 15 years since Circle Drive, the top priority for this year's street paving season, was last repaved. Yet many viewers have told KRDO…...
Colorado Springs Utilities urges water conservation amid low snowpack
4+ week, 1+ day ago (159+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Colorado Springs Utilities is reminding customers to be "water wise". Thanks to a historically low snowpack, CSU projects the water flowing into our system to be cut in half. This story will be updated. The post…...
National Work Zone Awareness Week kicks off in Colorado Springs
1+ mon, 22+ hour ago (232+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Today is the first day of National Work Zone Awareness Week, a nationwide effort to promote safe driving through work zones from April 20 -24. According to the city of Colorado Springs, this year's theme is "Safe actions…...
Two-block closure this week on Tejon Street in downtown Colorado Springs will end yearlong revitalization project
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (156+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS -- Starting early Monday morning, and continuing through Friday, Tejon Street between Colorado Avenue and Kiowa Street, in the heart of downtown, will be closed to traffic. It marks the final phase of the $8. 6 million project to upgrade those…...