When I revisited Concrete Coyote three weeks later, the masses who had gathered for the nonprofit’s 20th anniversary party had disappeared. Strong winds blew dirt into my eyes and mouth. It took ...

In its characteristically quiet manner, an era came to an end earlier this month. The Western Jubilee Warehouse Theater hosted what will likely stand as its final show, a celebration of the life ...

Before Ford Amphitheater had even opened its doors, JW Roth, CEO of Venu (and co-owner of Pikes Peak Media Co., the parent company of The Colorado Springs Independent), had begun planning four ...

It’s Friday, January 24, 2025, and my editor, Ben Trollinger, and I are walking through a muddy field full of angry prairie dogs across the street from Camping World, an RV dealership just off I ...

For the first time in nearly two decades, voters in Colorado’s 5th congressional district will be sending a different representative to Washington, D.C. Current Republican U.S. Representative ...

Limestone was mined from Pikeview Quarry from 1903 to 2018 using drill and blast mining methods. The quarry was expanded in 1940 to mine the stone used in the construction of the Air Force Academy ...

The open-air craze reached its height when the Nordrach Ranch sanatorium opened in 1901 at the base of Austin Bluffs. Patients were housed in 72 Gardiner tents constructed on a series of nine ...

WE KNOW WHAT WORKS Despite the persistence of homelessness, experts know what works. Not surprisingly, it’s housing and services, including food, basic health care, addiction recovery, job ...

B en Currie was in a bad place in 2021. In his mid-20s and fresh out of the military, he found himself unmoored. “I was in the lowest part of my life.” The military, even if it wasn’t the ...

Through Saturday, March 15, Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery at Ent Center for the Arts, 5225 N. Nevada Ave. Times vary. Coloradan artist Patrick Shearn creates large-scale public art instillations that ...

I listen to Steve Bannon most days of the week, way more than these so-called Staff journalists do. He never claims he was the chief architecture of Trump’s first election or term. In fact, it ...

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a column from John Harner, professor of geography at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the author of “Profiting from the Peak ...