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El Paso County avoids cuts in preliminary 2026 budget
El Paso County will not cut positions or services in what Chief Financial Officer Nikki Simmons called a “recession-resistant” preliminary budget for next year. “We have sufficient reserves to weather us through several years of uncertain economic activity,” she said at the first presentation on the budget last week. The budget does not call for…
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El Paso County avoids cuts in preliminary 2026 budget
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El Paso County will not cut positions or services in what Chief Financial Officer Nikki Simmons called a “recession-resistant” preliminary budget for next year. “We have sufficient reserves to weather us through several years of uncertain economic activity,” she said at the first presentation on the budget last week. The budget does not call for…
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2025 Voter Guide: proposed tax hikes could upgrade four area school districts
Along with new representatives on their boards of education, voters in the Pikes Peak region will decide on potential tax increases for four of its school districts. Widefield D-3, Manitou Springs D-14, Cripple Creek-Victor RE-1 and Peyton 23-JT will all ask voters to approve new bonds to renovate or replace aging infrastructure or mill levy…
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El Paso County Sheriff’s Office asks for help in finding missing autistic teenage girl
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the community’s help in finding a missing 15-year-old girl, Alexandria. The Sheriff’s Office posted Sunday afternoon that Alexandria was last seen at her home on Morley Court in Peyton, and that she has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old. Alexandria left home with a small white…
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Voter Guide: Pikes Peak Region school board elections
Term limits are up across many of Colorado Springs’ larger school districts, so big changes could be coming to local education’s leadership following the November coordinated election. Candidates are vying for multiple seats in Colorado Springs D-11 and Academy D-20. Meanwhile, a lack of candidates in Harrison D-2 and Fountain-Fort Carson means those districts have…
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2025 Voter Guide: appointed El Paso County Commissioner to defend her seat under new state law
El Paso County will be the first local government subject to a new law about the appointment process of county commissioners this year. The fall election ballot for Republican and unaffiliated voters in El Paso County Commission District 5 will see a vacancy race to replace Cami Bremer, who resigned from the commission earlier this…
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Delays continue in January King Soopers homicide case
The Colorado Springs man facing charges related to a fatal January shooting has refused transport from jail to court twice in the past two weeks, dragging the case on. Dustin Boston, 35, is facing several charges following his arrest on Feb. 13, including first-degree murder, for the death of Tyray Ikener, 32. According to police, Ikener was…
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Xcel appeals to state on billion-dollar energy project denied in El Paso County
Colorado’s largest utilities provider has asked the state to overrule local decisions on the $1.7 billion Colorado Power Pathway project, which was denied permits this year in El Paso and Elbert counties. Xcel is asking the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to consider overruling local decisions on the 550-mile powerline project in the name of public…
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On the docket this week: King Soopers shooting, U.S. 85/87 homicide suspects back in court
The last few days of September and the first of October brought a 20-year prison sentence for a former Cheyenne Mountain educator accused of child sex abuse and a 12-year sentence for a former plastic surgeon arrested in a “shooting frenzy” last year. More proceedings are in store for the upcoming first full week of…
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Federal judge dismisses claim of falsified testimony against El Paso County coroner employee
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit from a man who was tried and acquitted of his girlfriend’s 2021 murder, and who subsequently accused a witness of fabricating evidence to make him seem guilty. Joseph Hunnicutt stood trial twice in El Paso County for the killing of Alison Cantrell. At the first trial in…