Author: Breeanna Jent

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…

Colorado Springs celebrated keeping U.S. Space Command last year, but another fight over its location could be brewing as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office. A senior GOP lawmaker from Alabama who wants the command headquartered in his home state said this week that he expects Trump will reverse a decision by President Joe…

The City Council on Tuesday confirmed its vote to approve Colorado Springs Utilities’ $1.8 billion budget for 2025, including base rate increases for the next five years and a new time-of-day rate. The council at its regular meeting cast its second votes and unanimously approved next year’s budget and rate case for the municipally owned agency,…

Government and business leaders from Colorado Springs and El Paso County said Tuesday they are committed to working with President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team to discuss Colorado Springs’ role in national security. Local officials reacted to the possibility that U.S. Space Command headquarters, which employs about 1,700 people across military branches in Colorado…

The Colorado Springs community has inched closer to a definitive answer about whether recreational marijuana sales will be permitted in city limits, but elections officials in El Paso County were holding off on issuing a final answer as additional votes still were being tallied, six days after last week’s election. County Clerk and Recorder Steve…

As Colorado Springs voters were approving ballot questions that propose both banning recreational marijuana establishments and authorizing retail cannabis sales locally, pro-campaign representatives and city officials seemed to offer competing interpretations of which new law, if unofficial results hold, could take effect. Non-certified returns updated by the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office at…