Author: Breeanna Jent

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…

Jerry Rutledge, a prominent Colorado Springs businessman and a former member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, died Jan. 9 after complications from surgery. He was 80. “Jerry was an extraordinary person and he led an extraordinary life. There aren’t very many people like him,” his wife Jan Rutledge said.  A farm boy…

Colorado Springs residents appear to have rejected a ballot question that sought to more permanently ban recreational marijuana sales in the city, according to updated election results from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Thursday night. Final unofficial results updated at 8:23 p.m. showed the City Council-backed Question 2D, which proposes amending the city…