China Town Restaurant is far from the only downtown restaurant to close its doors in 2024. Austin Wilson-Bradley, director of economic development with Downtown Partnership, reported more than 23 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mia’s family was acting strange. She had come all the way from UC Berkeley to see her dying grandmother, Raquel, one last time. In the hospital room, Raquel begged her daughter to turn the ...

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 ...

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 ...

November 20, 2013. It was a brisk afternoon on the sculpture garden lawn at the Fine Arts Center (FAC) in Colorado Springs. The FAC was just coming off a banner year. The Floyd Tunson ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s all over but the shouting — that’s the idiom that’s been kicking around in my head since it was announced back in October that the Rockrimmon Library would close at the end of last month.

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 ...