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Colorado's Highest Mountain TownWater provider north of Colorado Springs working on solution to radium contamination
A drinking water provider for about 6,000 residents just north of Colorado Springs is planning to use chemicals to help remove radium contamination in excess of the federal limit. Donala Water and Sanitation notified residents recently that its rolling annual average...
Measuring the Bathtub Ring: Calculating Reservoir Surface Area Changes in the Colorado River Basin
On August 16th, 2021 the US Bureau of Reclamation water shortage for the Colorado River, a vital artery that winds through seven states in the western United States over 1,450 miles. From its inception in the Rocky Mountains to its drainage in the Gulf of California,...
Colorado Springs summer temperatures trend upward
Colorado Springs experienced a summer of record setting heat, a trend climate and weather experts expect to worsen in the coming years.Between June, July and August the city experienced seven days of record setting heat and entered September with a slight lag in...
Krispy Kreme launches construction of its first Colorado Springs location in 15 years
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts has launched its comeback in Colorado Springs.Construction of a 3,547-square foot Krispy Kreme began Thursday with a groundbreaking ceremony northwest of Powers Boulevard and South Carefree Circle on the city's northeast side. Krispy Kreme will...
New Colorado program helps employers address workers’ mental health
Employees at a Colorado construction company, a probation department, local school districts, a financial services organization and Children’s Hospital Colorado have wildly different missions, but share a key commonality: Their bosses are investing in worker mental...
Fewer students, more tax dollars: Colorado’s community colleges are struggling
Colorado’s Community College System has 16% fewer students than it did just two years ago, a decline caused in part by an exodus of low-income students who left school during the pandemic to put food on the table, care for their kids and dodge the difficulties of...
The inside scoop on hiking Colorado’s ‘easiest’ fourteener | OutThere Colorado
Lace up your hiking boots and get ready to bag one of Colorado's easiest fourteener summits – Handies PeakReaching 14,052 feet in the San Juan Mountains, Handies Peak is offers a great option for beginners among the state's 58 fourteeners. Handies Peak is a class one...
Missing boater on Alabama’s Lake Martin identified as Colorado man
TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - Crews continue to comb Lake Martin for a .“Its people on boats, as well as divers,” Alex City Fire Marshal Jeremy Spears said. His department is assisting in the search effort, alongside multiple law enforcement and rescue teams.The...
Colorado 2021-22 ski season: When each resort is opening
Skiers and snowboarders driving past Copper Mountain shortly after sunrise one day last week couldn’t help but get a little giddy after noticing the outside temperature reading on their dashboards was showing 32 degrees. Alas, it was just a mild cold front, and we...








