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Each person who entered the area on Monday had a card verifying they owned a home that was completely destroyed by the fire.
The more than 150-square-mile fire is now one of the largest and most destructive in state history.
The Warehouses' Chef James Africano is renovating the venue space into a grocery store
For many rural Colorado families, evacuating means finding safety for more than a few animals.
Beside Colorado's oldest church, Alphonso Abeyta created a sanctuary using more than 50,000 adobe bricks and traditional knowledge passed down in the San Luis Valley.
Mayor Yemi Mobolade and his chief of staff, Wayne Williams, say their partnership is a return to American values, as the nation marks 250 years.
The fire has burned across more than 73,000 acres in Custer and Pueblo counties.
Currently, the fire is still 0% contained.
The groups said Colorado Springs disenfranchises minority voters by having elections in the spring. The city said the timing actually leads to better civic engagement.
Women participating in Culinary Connections prepare monthly meals to sell to the community.
Administrative approval is the final step in development review, according to the city, though they can be appealed.
Many of the exhibits are hands-on and there's a STEAM – science, technology, engineering, art and math – learning and maker space complete with laser printers.
Municipalities and developers that want to take water from farmland and move it to cities have often left nothing but dust behind.
Yard art might bring to mind garden gnomes or painted rocks, but a new exhibit at the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College asks visitors to look deeper.
The new soul food restaurant at the Citadel Mall is on the western side of the mall.
The state health department told the Bulletin that a previous voluntary cleanup effort by Colorado Springs Utilities didn't meet their requirements.
As Colorado Springs debates over what housing growth will look like, employers are finding out of the box ways to offer employees affordable housing.
In 1995 hundreds of huge murals were linked together to form the world's largest outdoor mural.
The state sued e-cigarette maker JUUL and won a $32 million settlement. Now those funds are supporting programs across the state.
Matthew Schniper of Side Dish takes us to a trio of taco joints and one restaurant where a cake isn't always what it appears.
Nestled in the saddle between the peaks, a geocalendar appears.
Kevin Karney insulated himself from the worst of the region's water woes. But not everyone can. That's why the Arkansas Valley Conduit matters, he says.
More than 400 people could lose their driver's licenses as a result of the DMV's investigation.
Major Stephen Ramsbottom, a Purple Heart recipient, was wounded in a recent drone attack in Iran.
Known industry investor Perry Sanders is "putting the band back together" and plans to offer a variety of Cajun and Creole staples like po'boys, red beans and rice, and boils at his new restaurant, Perriteaux's.
The small city in Huerfano County was losing more than 2,000 gallons per minute by Monday afternoon, according to local reports.
One of Colorado Springs' more famous historical residents was only in the city for a few months.
Hernando, who grew up in Argentina and has lived in the United States for 40 years, sees the exhibit as a quiet response to the turbulent political and social times we live in. Rather than confrontation, her work emphasizes kindness, joy and everyday gestures of care.
Michelin "inspectors" are visiting the state, and it's expected that they'll hit Colorado Springs this time around.
Stories of gentrification follow a predictable plot. The Mill Street neighborhood is trying something different.
Inside GOCA, artist Nina Elder transforms microplastic-shedding highway fabric and glittering “trash asteroids” into a meditation on the void. It's where nothing truly disappears; it only morphs. Her cosmic philosophy is exploding onto the runway at House of GOCA's “Stardust” fashion show in Colorado Springs.
Owners Eliza and John Hill opened the indoor venue in northern Colorado Springs late last year.
Once known as “Jesus Springs,” Colorado Springs helped shape modern evangelical politics in the U.S. Historian William Schultz explains how faith, military power and culture wars converged in the city and why that influence eventually faded.
Long-time food journalist Matthew Schniper joins KRCC monthly to talk about what's new in the city's culinary scene.
The federal government is updating the region's geological maps to expand the search for critical minerals and rare earth elements.
Prices for necessities like groceries are outpacing wage growth.
The federal government is pushing hard to pinpoint domestic sources of rare earth elements and critical minerals
New work is underway to improve and expand the existing geological data for the region.
“It's constantly used by people for all of these different reasons throughout history, that is the story of shifting borders, shifting industry, shifting towns, shifting states."
Latest data from GPS collars indicates individual wolves roaming as far south as the New Mexico border.
Mobolade also touched on the city's "purple" politics and the loss of Space Command.
The Mt. Olivet Cemetery tour includes stories from the lives of prospectors, madams, and sheriffs that lived in Chaffee County.
“Uvalde Mom” is screening at the Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival at Colorado College this weekend.
“The congregation believes strongly that the temple is not only the synagogue for the Jewish community, but it also belongs to the citizens of Pueblo.”
The movie was filmed in Fort Collins.
Federal funds were allegedly mixed with the town's general fund and used in part for personal expenses.
The board did away with a long-standing bargaining agreement last year and strongly opposes the strike.
This story is a part of Understanding Southern Colorado’s Groundwater, an occasional series from KRCC about groundwater resources. Read more stories here.
New CBI director updates the challenges of identifying decomposing bodies.
The bodies were found two miles from the trailhead where the car of the two missing hunters was previously located.
The plains south of La Junta is a popular spot to look for the eight-legged critters around dawn and dusk from mid-September into early October.
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