Author: Liz Forster, The Gazette
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Canadian military aerobatics team to fly over Colorado Springs
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COLORADO SPRINGS – The Snowbirds from the Canadian Forces 431 Air Demonstration Squadron will help celebrate North American Aerospace Defense Command’s 60th anniversary with flyovers Friday and Saturday. Canada’s military aerobatics team will fly over Peterson Air Force Base at about 2:30 p.m. May 11 and 10:40 a.m. May 12. The team will also fly over Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station…
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Environmental Assessment for I-25 "Gap" project to be released for public comment Friday
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COLORADO SPRINGS – The Colorado Department of Transportation’s environmental assessment on the Interstate 25 “Gap” widening project will include a toll lane when it is released Friday for public comment. “This is a major milestone for CDOT and an even more important step forward toward saving people’s lives,” said CDOT Executive Director Michael Lewis of…
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Colorado had record work zone deaths in 2017
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COLORADO SPRINGS – Colorado’s work zone fatalities last year more than doubled those in 2016 and topped the annual average for 2012 to 2016. The 2017 death toll was 15, compared with seven in 2016 and 2015 and eight in 2014, reports the Colorado Department of Transportation. None killed in 2017 was a CDOT worker.…
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A blue wave in El Paso County? Democrats have big plans in next election
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COLORADO SPRINGS – For the first time, according to party officials, Democrats will have a candidate challenging Republicans for every El Paso County office up for election in November. After Saturday’s county assembly in Colorado Springs, El Paso County Democratic Party Chairwoman Electra Johnson said there will be three June 26 primary races. Two Democrats…
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Democrats to field candidates for every El Paso County office up for election
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COLORADO SPRINGS – For the first time, according to party officials, Democrats will have a candidate challenging Republicans for every El Paso County office up for election in November. After Saturday’s county assembly in Colorado Springs, El Paso County Democratic Party Chairwoman Electra Johnson said there will be three June 26 primary races. Two Democrats…
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Judge halts expansion of coal mining in area that supplies Colorado Springs Utilities
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A federal judge elevated the importance of climate change in a ruling last week halting the expansion of coal mining in the nation’s top coal-producing area, environmental law experts say. The Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming supplies 40 percent of the nation’s coal, including Colorado Springs Utilities. The Bureau of Land Management’s proposal…
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Fort Carson confirms 3,300-acre fire sparked by live-fire training
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COLORADO SPRINGS – A Fort Carson investigation confirmed that live-fire training sparked a fire that burned 3,300 acres and two homes in the rural Midway Ranch community this month, the base announced Monday. The decision to hold training on March 16, the day the fire started, has been criticized by many residents because the National…
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Colorado Springs’ March for Our Lives: ‘Vote with us in mind’
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Just over a month ago, Andrew Torgashev was leaving the gym in Coral Springs, Fla., when he found out a gunman armed with an AR-15 assault-style semi-automatic rifle had killed 14 former classmates, two coaches and a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Watching from his home across the street, he saw police, EMTs…
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Anger toward Army builds over fire that started on Fort Carson, destroyed three houses
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Anger toward Fort Carson continued to build among southern El Paso County residents a day after three homes were destroyed by a fire that started on the Army post during a training exercise and grew to 3,300 acres Saturday. Hundreds of residents who had been forced to flee with their pets and livestock as flames…
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I-25 toll lane opponents question if Colorado transportation officials are listening
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El Paso County residents at Saturday’s meeting on the Interstate 25 “Gap” widening project questioned if they are being heard by the state officials who will decide whether expansion includes a toll lane. “There’s a credibility problem here that the nonelected (Colorado Department of Transportation) officials who can’t be bothered to make this meeting,” said…
