Author: Emery Cowan

With one month to go until the Colorado primary, Republicans nationwide are watching the race between GOP Senate contenders Jane Norton and Ken Buck, said Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch at a Thursday campaign stop for Norton’s campaign. Hatch, a well-known social conservative who has been in Congress since 1977, is helping just a few campaigns…

Brooks Williams was 5 months old when he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.  Aided by antibiotics, inhalers and breathing apparatus, he had few problems with the lung disease.  But after a severe case of pneumonia at age 21, Williams tired of the numerous treatments doctors prescribed. So he started running.     Photo by

As Cody Tarver and Jakeob Olson turned the corner onto Bijou Street they let the brakes go, speeding down the hill on their brand new bikes.  The sun’s last golden rays glinted off the bikes’ electric blue paint.   The teens, both of whom live at Urban Peak group home, were two of 33 teens…

Solitude isn’t hard to find on the South Slope. Silence whispers from the pine-covered hills and the sweet, thick scent of ponderosa pine, fir and spruce hangs softly in the air.The lush slope spreads out like a secret garden beneath Pikes Peak’s barren summit. The 45,000-acre watershed owned by Colorado Springs Utilities has been a…

The summer sun’s scorching rays mercilessly beat down on the parched grass and dry, cracked ground of Memorial Park Sunday afternoon. Here and around the city, the green slowly fades away. Turning to the parks department to save the withering landscape won’t do much good, though. With a shriveled budget and skyrocketing water rates, there…

Spots are still available for the first guided hike up the South Slope of Pikes Peak on Sunday. Hikers will follow a seven-mile round-trip route from McReynolds Reservoir to Boehmer Reservoir. The South Slope watershed has been closed to the public since 1913 when Colorado Springs Utilities locked the gates to protect the area from…

Local residents and more than a few Incline aficionados were presented with a timeline stretching into 2011 for the opening of the Manitou Incline at a public forum on Thursday night. The forum was the first in a multistep process to develop a plan that will provide a long-term solution for the trail that has…

Construction at the intersection of Woodmen Road and North Academy Boulevard is in full swing, traffic cones, hard hats and all. The $42 million project, which began last September, will raise Woodmen over Academy, making the intersection a grade-separated interchange. The project will improve traffic flow in response to growth and development in the area. …

The El Paso County Commissioners approved an $80,000 settlement with a former inmate on Tuesday concerning an incident of excessive force.   The incident occurred in September 2007 when Brock John Behler received a broken arm in a scuffle with former El Paso County sheriff’s deputy Dennis Grivois in a work release facility at the…