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Downtown Colorado Springs is undergoing a renaissance. This type of development boom hasn't been seen in decades, and includes the construction of new urban apartments, an Olympic museum, a multi-use outdoor stadium, and a new arena for CC hockey. Â
De'Von Bailey, a robbery suspect, was fatally shot by Colorado Springs police southeast of Memorial Park on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019.
Reports of sinking, heaving and flooding are scattered throughout the development of about 200 acres south of U.S. 24 and east of 21st Street, according to accounts from some residents, public documents, claims made in three lawsuits by residents, and inspection reports.
Follow The Gazette's coverage of the murder trial Patrick Frazee, accused of killing his fiancee Kelsey Berreth, the Woodland Park mother who has been missing since Thanksgiving Day in 2018.Â
The drinking water of tens of thousands of Security, Widefield and Fountain residents was found to be tainted by toxins called perfluorinated compounds, or PFAS in January of 2016. The toxins were traced back to firefighting foam from Peterson Air Force Base.
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A resurgent Colorado Spring basks in record low unemployment numbers, a soaring housing market and an increasingly burnished national reputation. But an entire quadrant of the city, the southeast, languishes in the shadows.
Twenty United States VETERANS commit suicide every day, an astonishing number. By comparison, not that many Americans died in combat on a daily basis since Korea. Many who end their own lives are older veterans.
U.S. Air Force Academy cadet athletes flouted the sacred honor code by committing sexual assaults, taking drugs, cheating and engaging in other misconduct at wild parties while the service academy focused on winning bowl games and attracting money from alumni and private sources in recent ye…
The Road to Legalization project is the story behind the historic approval of recreational marijuana in Colorado. The Gazette remains committed to continuing coverage of this important issue.
Thousands of homes on the west side of Colorado Springs are at risk from newly awakened landslides despite 40 years of warnings from geologists and city regulations created to ensure safe homebuilding.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Fewer other-than-honorable discharges for Army, but affected veterans still struggling.
The goal of this series is to explain what cybersecurity is and why Colorado Springs is becoming a hub for the industry.
For a venue that some entertainment industry experts said was too risky to build, The Broadmoor World Arena has done all right for itself since it opened 20 years ago.
In the five years since the Waldo Canyon fire erupted, destroying 347 homes and killing two people on the west side of Colorado Springs, neighborhoods have been rebuilt, bonds of friendship strengthened by shared tragedy.
Colorado voters enshrined recreational cannabis in the state constitution in 2012, with the first stores opening in 2014. Together with legal medicinal marijuana, sales burgeoned to $1.3 billion in 2016.
It was the worst of fires - and then came another one even worse. It was a fire in a subdivision and then it was one in a wooded, rural community. It was a fire of quick rebuilding and then it was one where the landscape won't return for a generation.
Air Force studies dating back decades show danger of foam that contaminated Colorado Springs-area water.
Progress marred by problems has been the MO at Spring Creek Youth Services Center in Colorado Springs.
For a gripping account of a family's struggle to recover after its members were severely burned in an explosion that devastated their home.
For expanding the examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses, stories augmented with digital tools and stirring congressional action.