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New trails open at Fishers Peak in southern Colorado
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After years in busy Boulder and busier Denver, Juan Delaroca was looking for something else. In 2015, he found it driving through Trinidad near Colorado’s southern border with New Mexico – found it in the sight of a mighty flattop, Fishers Peak, which was privately held at the time. “I just kind of looked around and…
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Demand for abortions in Colorado from out-of-state clients skyrocketing
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One Texas woman recently drove 18 hours to Colorado with an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilized egg mistakenly implants outside, instead of inside, the uterus. The condition is dangerous; a rupture could lead to the woman bleeding to death. The woman didn’t know if that would happen to her while she was en route to…
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Colorado Springs’ new homelessness prevention coordinator is the city’s ear on issues
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Crystal Karr has moved from overseeing a transitional housing program for homeless families to being the city’s ear on homeless issues. “I’m excited about being able to have a broader impact on our community,” she said Monday, one week after starting her new job as the city of Colorado Springs’ homelessness prevention and response coordinator.…
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Plethora of Colorado voter guides to inform, after that it’s up to you
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Shelly Roehrs knows she can’t make anybody vote. But as one of a record 135 members of the League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region, she knows she can help educate and inform people about the particulars of an election ballot. What they do after that, she said, is up to them. “There…
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Former NSA employee arrested in Denver on espionage-related charges
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Federal authorities arrested Colorado Springs resident Jareh Dalke, a former employee of the National Security Agency, Wednesday at an unspecified location in Denver on charges that he attempted to transmit classified information to a representative of a foreign government, the United States Justice Department announced Thursday. Dalke, 30, appeared in federal court Thursday, on charges…
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Woodland Park to pay $65,000 over deleted comments from police Facebook page
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Removing Facebook posts on the Woodland Park Police Department page that contained vulgarities and what officials deemed inappropriate language is costing the city of Woodland Park $65,000, under a recent court settlement. It’s the largest amount ever reached in a case stemming from a Facebook blocking by a public official, said Andrew McNulty, an attorney…
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$3 million incentive program launched by city and Colorado Springs Chamber to woo employers
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The city and Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce & EDC are partnering on a new $3 million financial incentives program they hope will help entice new and existing businesses to add high-paying jobs in the Springs. The Deal Closing Fund, as the program is called, is designed to do just that — close the deal with…
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Drought threatens Colorado River hydropower, major source of renewable energy
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PAGE, ARIZ. • Soulful notes from a Native American flute float over the vast valley on the backside of the Glen Canyon Dam, which interrupts the once mighty Colorado River. At the tourist overlook, a teen — his phone in hand, playing the music — hops from one phyllo-layered sandstone outcropping to another, where river, rock…
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PFAS water contamination ubiquitous, but treatment plants gaining ground
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Manmade chemicals brought to the marketplace last century after World War II to make life better with products such as nonstick cookware and water-repellent shoes have made life in this century more worrisome. The Security-Widefield area of El Paso County in 2016 became ground zero for drinking-water contamination of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a group…
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Powerhouse preacher Ted Haggard faces new allegations of illicit behavior
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National evangelical Christian powerhouse Ted Haggard, who founded New Life Church in Colorado Springs in 1984, grew it to 14,000 worshippers and was excommunicated in 2006 amid accusations that he paid a male escort for sex and was using methamphetamine, is facing new allegations from another congregation he started in 2010, Saint James Church. Some…
