Author: Savannah Eller
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El Paso County to reinstate frozen child care assistance program
El Paso County is planning to reinstate a partial waitlist system for the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program, a program that subsidizes child care costs for low-income families. The program ran out of sustainable funding in 2024, prompting a freeze on admitting children from new applications in November of that year. Since then, only children…
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Bending but not breaking: Pikes Peak region cities face 2026 economic headwinds
Predicting the future of the U.S. economy is an inexact science. As cities across El Paso County have finalized their budgets for 2026 in recent weeks, there are even more risks and uncertain factors with which to contend. Businesses and municipalities are adjusting to price increases driven by President Donald Trump’s tariffs, analysts say. Colorado…
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Largest wildlife bridge in North America is now complete, says Colorado Department of Transportation
The Greenland Overpass is a unique solution to a unique situation, says Chuck Attardo, I-25 south corridor environmental project manager for the Colorado Department of Transportation. Few places on the continent have a similar confluence of human activity and wildness like the Interstate 25 corridor between Castle Rock and Colorado Springs. An eight-lane highway handling…
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‘Turnkey’ solution: Fountain set to finalize major water contract
The city of Fountain is on the cusp of signing a 50-year agreement to pull hundreds of acre-feet in water per year from wells on the historic Venetucci Farm. “This is the cheapest water we’re going to get,” summarized Fountain Mayor Sharon Thompson at a presentation on the contract on Tuesday. The deal, if struck,…
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El Paso County to reinstate frozen child care assistance program
El Paso County is planning to reinstate a partial waitlist system for the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program, a program that subsidizes child care costs for low-income families. The program ran out of sustainable funding in 2024, prompting a freeze on admitting children from new applications in November of that year. Since then, only children…
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Monument approves 150-home subdivision
On Monday, the Monument Town Council unanimously approved a Final Planned Unit Development for 158 single-family detached homes along Old Denver Road. The project would realign Old Denver Road and include trail connections for the Santa Fe Regional Trail. The 23-acre subdivision will occupy a long, thin strip of land, with a density of 6.89…
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Monument approves 150-home subdivision
The Monument Town Council unanimously approved a Final Planned Unit Development for 158 single-family detached homes along Old Denver Road at its Dec. 15 meeting. The project would realign Old Denver Road and include trail connections for the Santa Fe Regional Trail. The 23-acre subdivision will occupy a long, thin strip of land, with a…
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Manitou Springs council plans diversion of Cog Railway reimbursement
The Manitou Springs City Council last week amended its first budget reading, pulling about $690,000 away from a tax reimbursement agreement with the Pikes Peak Cog Railway to fund wildfire mitigation efforts instead. “We feel like we’ve been living on borrowed time,” Mayor John Graham said on wildfire risk for the mountain city popular with…
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Palmer Lake to discuss Buc-ee’s, recall elections Thursday
The newly-whole Palmer Lake Board of Trustees will have an opportunity Thursday to discuss the setting for two issues going to town voters in the new year. The first is when and how to field a ballot question on the perennially divisive Buc-ee’s annexation, which would bring 30 acres near Interstate 25 into the town’s…
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Manitou Springs to see spring election in metro district dispute
An El Paso County judge has ordered an election in a municipal dispute over parking in Manitou Springs. Earlier this year, the city initiated a legal process to dissolve an independent parking district that manages two downtown parking lots in Manitou Springs. The Manitou Springs Metropolitan District was created in 1989 by local merchants to…