Author: Liz Henderson

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Two weeks into July, Colorado’s heroic snowpack is still holding on — by its fingernails. The state hasn’t had a snowpack like this since 2011, when 0.1 inches managed to hang around until July 18.…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An Ozone Action Day Alert for El Paso County and several other Front Range areas was issued by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Wednesday. The alert calls for residents to limit…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado State Patrol in Alamosa tweeted Tuesday that a fire was burning near Blanca Peak. The agency tweeted that emergency responders were on scene near the fourteener and asked that visitors not call 911…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than halfway through hail season, Colorado Springs has so far dodged the destruction that pelted the city in recent years. On Friday, golf-ball size hail was reported in Briargate and pea-size hail fell in…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Remains found by searchers in Rocky Mountain Park are believed to be those of missing Air Force Academy Prep School Cadet Micah Tice, who went missing in November, park officials said Friday. Tice, 20, who…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A woman was struck on the head by a man with a metal pipe Thursday morning just outside Bear Creek Dog Park in west Colorado Springs, police said. OTC Editor’s Note: Since publishing, we’ve been…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Unusually high, cold and roiling waters have claimed at least six lives across Colorado as mountain snow continues to melt rapidly, with plenty more snowmelt to come. Despite closings of many river stretches and warnings…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the past week, state wildlife officers have seen a “sad parade” of orphaned fawns — baby deer taken from their mothers by people who found them and mistakenly believed they had been abandoned. In…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The woman who fell into the snow-melt-swollen south fork of the Rio Grande five days ago has been identified as Roberta Sophia Rodriguez of Colorado Springs, the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday. Mineral County…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Access to the popular fishing spot at John Martin Reservoir State Wildlife Area has been restricted after two men walking on the trestle were nearly hit by a train. A Colorado Parks and Wildlife news…