Author: Breeanna Jent

An electric transmission framework that can support up to 600 megawatts of capacity is among new utilities infrastructure planned at Peak Innovation Park, part of an agreement local officials said will support long-term development and sustainable economic growth in Colorado Springs and across the Pikes Peak region. Colorado Springs Utilities and the city on Friday…

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and El Paso County Public Health have confirmed measles in two unvaccinated El Paso County adults, officials said Sunday evening. The adults are unrelated, but both were at Denver International Airport around the same time on May 14, state and local public health officials said in a…

The Colorado Springs Chamber & Economic Development Corp.’s Board of Directors is considering a policy change this month that could prohibit marijuana businesses from joining the organization as members. Chamber spokeswoman Nicole Jomantas confirmed the board will review and vote on a proposed change to the chamber’s bylaws that would “require business activities of members…

A heavy-duty loader scoops a mass of mixed recyclables into its steel bucket and then, gingerly, the operator deposits the materials into a sorting machine.  Old cardboard and plastic bottles blended with remnants of paper products and glass are then run along separate conveyor belts, as they’re sorted by type before they’re mashed into multi-ton bales…

After law enforcement officers raided an “underground” nightclub early Sunday morning, Mayor Yemi Mobolade said he expects additional arrests in Colorado Springs’ future. “I anticipate that there will be more arrests. I hope to see more raids happen in my city. This is not the first one,” Mobolade told national media outlet NewsNation Now. 100-plus…

In a row, one after the other, three robots use their metal arms and the power of suction one recent Thursday morning to identify and sort a mélange of plastics sailing by on a continuously moving conveyer belt, ready to be reprocessed and transformed into new items. Holistic health studio for weight-loss, wellness debuts in…

More than 200 Microchip Technology employees in Colorado Springs will receive pink slips this month, part of the chipmaker’s plans to lay off about 2,000 of its workers amid declining demand from automakers. Microchip’s Colorado Springs chip manufacturing facility will have 238 employees permanently laid off, the company notified the state Tuesday in a written…

Colorado Springs’ residential and commercial markets are expected to largely remain flat in 2025 amid economic uncertainty and fluctuating mortgage and interest rates that have slowed home and property sales, but not mortgages or rents. Industry experts on Thursday presented on the state of the national, state and local real estate market at the 35th…

Union employees at two King Soopers stores in Pueblo will begin striking on Friday, though no strikes have yet been called in Colorado Springs, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 announced. The Pueblo stores will join some 10,000 King Soopers workers across 77 stores in the greater Denver area who began striking…

El Paso County residents living east of Colorado Springs boundaries, adjacent to the sprawling, unincorporated prairieland that will join city limits and for which a master-planned community of thousands of new homes is envisioned, now plan to take their fight against the annexation to the ballot box. “We weren’t surprised at all. This was all…