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Pueblo Water spent about $11 million to turn a dangerous spot on the Arkansas River into a free, family friendly, all-levels recreation area with wading ponds, tubing areas and whitewater challenges.

Tickets go on sale Monday, May 19 for 2025's Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls.

“We've got a really good group ... But I can't keep paying them. There's just no way to do that.”

An Anniversary Celebration for Memorial Day weekend will be a good time for first contact.

A billion-dollar project to build a pipeline snakes its way east from near Pueblo toward Lamar. It's the Arkansas Valley Conduit.

The installation features the stories of four Black domestic workers in Trinidad between 1890 and 1920.

Like many Colorado mountain towns, the economies of Cripple Creek and Victor depend on visitors taking a long trip down a winding highway. A troll and castles made of ice are helping bridge a seasonal gap.

Meet the group that's picked up more than 45,000 pounds of trash in one year.

Water managers and users from all over Colorado met to talk about the often contentious nature of water and to look for possible solutions to longstanding, reoccurring and often vexing questions about the precious resource.

Did her contemporary, John Steinbeck, steal her spotlight?

A 25 percent tariff on Canadian timber products, which includes newsprint, is set to resume April 2.

While this flock appears to have not been impacted by bird flu, an eastern population of sandhill cranes saw 1,500 die.

The Colorado Springs live-music space has received significant pushback from neighbors.

After 15 years leading the Trails and Open Space Coalition, Susan Davies has retired.

It's a bird … it's a plane … it's a fruitcake!

This will be the third time in less than six months that voters will be asked about allowing recreational marijuana sales.

Even now, it is the highest suspension bridge in the nation and one of the highest in the world.

Legal questions remain over how close pot shops could be to schools and treatment centers.

A nursing simulation lab with mannequins that "breathe" and "give birth" is coming to the Fremont Campus of Pueblo Community College.

People charged with minor offenses were often given hundreds of days in jail if they skipped a court date.

The proposal passed a major hurdle involving tax incentives.

Colorado Springs has seen the unhoused population decrease by 12 percent.

Jim Bishop began building his monumental stone castle high atop a hillside in the forest of the Wet Mountains in 1969.

The outcome resolves a peculiar legal dilemma that seemed on the horizon after it looked like voters had also approved a measure which would have banned retail marijuana businesses within Colorado Springs city limits. 

The average homeowner's cost has recently grown by about $9 a month to cover rising fuel prices. Now the city owned Colorado Springs Utilities, which handles power, gas, water and sewer, is about to ask for another type of increase called a base rate increase.

North America's longest-running women's film festival is celebrating its 37th year at Colorado College.

A procession down main street in the town Thursday honored Patrick Weier, 46, who was killed after an elevator malfunctioned last week.

For more than two decades, musicians have gathered in Westcliffe for the annual High Mountain Hay Fever festival. Now, it's a finalist for the International Bluegrass Music Association's event of the year award.

The owners of the Return to Nature funeral home, where 190 decomposing bodies were found, have told the federal court hearing their case they want to change their plea.

The Rio Grande and Arkansas Rivers are critical resources providing water for homes, farms, industry and recreation.

Teams of two—one donkey and one human—took on the 30-mile course for the final event of the weekend known as Burro Days.

Mayor Yemi Mobolade and city staff met with the venue's operators to discuss additional measures after backlash from neighboring residents.

A city councilmember who lives near the venue said residents “are speaking truth.”

Organizers said the Club Q shooting taught them how to better track patients on site with a new app-tracked wristband system.

Baking, fine arts, livestock shows and more – people of all ages vie for blue ribbons in hundreds of different competitions at the Colorado State Fair.

A recently updated list that recommends Front Range trees was put together by CSU academics, staff at the Denver Botanic Gardens and tree care professionals.

The Front Range Tree Recommendation List includes over 200 varieties of tree that were evaluated and rated by experts in the industry based on decades of experience. It aims to serve as a single reference point for professionals to use and share with customers.

Fans can listen to a bootleg recording of the concert in an underground archive at Colorado College.

An attack by national guard troops on mine workers north of Trinidad is considered a turning point in the history of the U.S.

Clint Cross of North Star Turquoise has been mining turquoise near Cripple Creek for decades.

‘Character in Context' continues the legacy of pulp illustrator A.R. Mitchell at the museum dedicated to his work.

The carousel was removed last summer as part of plans for an ongoing $50 million construction project.

Haberdasher's ultimate goal is to stitch together a tighter community.

The city will become the first urban area in Colorado to provide transfusions of whole blood to critically ill patients in the field.

A new study said the small, chinchilla-sized omnivore belonged to a group of mammals that eventually gave rise to all hoofed mammals.

The decision eliminates two programs in the city.

Temple Aaron has been a place of worship for Jewish people in Southern Colorado and northern New Mexico for 135 years.

As more people move into small communities, some like Westcliffe and Silver Cliff, struggle to keep pace with infrastructure requirements, including the good old-fashioned toilet flush.

Meet the artist behind the giant puppet in this year's Manitou Springs Carnivale parade that honors the legacy of the late Charles Rockey.

Parts of the decades-old reconstructed adobe trading post near La Junta are failing. This led to the decision to close the upper level until the risks can be resolved and the structure restored. Also, the living history presentations there could undergo some changes, including how livestock may be managed.

Enforcing fire safety in homeless encampments is a challenging issue.