Debbie Kelley

The administrator of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library for El Paso and Teller counties is relinquishing the role after nearly 14 years. Pikes Peak United Way, which currently has 9,023 children enrolled who receive free books monthly in the mail, has sent letters to families notifying them the literacy program is winding down through mid-December, Cami Bremer, president and CEO of Pikes Peak United Way, said Wednesday. Families will still receive their intended allotments for the year, she said.

A sixth tenant union has formed at a Colorado Springs Apartment building, this time at Fairway Valley Apartments, to advocate for improved living conditions and call for nonretaliatory practices.

On the one-year anniversary of her husband’s assassination, Erika Kirk will deliver a 10-minute prerecorded address via video to attendees of this year’s Truth & Liberty Conference in Woodland Park.

The 18.6-acre site of a new temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Flying Horse Club Drive and Barossa Valley Road in the upscale Flying Horse Ranch development has been fenced and leveled, a new retaining wall is in place and the land is otherwise ready for a Sept. 12 groundbreaking.

Dustin Guthrie didn’t ever think he’d be a preacher, let alone run a church by himself as senior pastor. Since 2007, he had settled in at Radiant Church’s central location in Colorado Springs as worship pastor, playing guitar and guiding the faithful in singing their hearts out in praise. But God had other plans, and now Guthrie is saying “yes” to a new spiritual challenge.

On the one-year anniversary of her husband’s assassination, Erika Kirk will deliver a 10-minute prerecorded address via video to attendees of this year’s Truth & Liberty Conference in Woodland Park.

“I wanted to do something exotic and daring,” Army veteran Agnes Davis said, while waiting to reschedule her first-ever hot air balloon flight on Monday, the last day of the 2026 Labor Day Lift Off in Colorado Springs. Passenger balloons and balloons participating in the annual festival in Memorial Park were grounded due to winds and dark clouds.

A $40 million donation, the largest single benevolent gift to any Children’s Hospital Colorado’s operation statewide, will fund a major expansion at the Colorado Springs campus in the Briargate neighborhood, officials announced Thursday.

Mario Beltran, 35, whom police call a “known prolific offender,” was arrested Thursday night after entering a business in the 7100 block of North Academy Boulevard, according to Colorado Springs police. The department’s specialized Metro Retail, Pawn, Metal and Organized Crime Unit, which targets organized retail crime, serial shoplifting, stolen goods that show up at […]

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are particularly excited that construction on the state’s fourth Mormon temple.