A large, soft pretzel with a small packet of salt and baking instructions. A set of personalized flashcards. A signed letter from a mayor. A beanie. A bucket hat. Some socks. These are all things ...

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 ...

Porta-potties were set up on the roof of San Francisco City Hall in 1998. A group of five overall-clad workers from the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades rubbed 24k gold squares ...

EXPANDED OFFERINGS Other downtown creative businesses are using the state grant funds to help bolster their collections and, in turn, more deeply enrich the arts community in the city. Auric ...

The Colorado Springs City Clerk’s office said that ballot counting was completed on April 2 but will allow for military and overseas ballots to be received by 5 p.m. on April 9 as well as for ...

Colorado Springs has some of these. Indeed, The American Planning Association of Colorado named Tejon Street as the “Great Streets” 2020 winner of the Great Places Colorado program. But we ...

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 ...

Anna Grace, local singer-songwriter with the je ne sais quoi of a magical woodland fairy from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — “though she be but little, she is fierce ...

Dave Donelson did the city a favor voting “no on Amara”. A flagpole annexation almost two miles away from City limits. Fountain wasn’t able to annex due to water supplies. The developers ...

District 5 Christopher Burns | Total Raised to Date: $9,126.08 According to his three filings, Christopher Burns has loaned himself $6,100 and contributed $3,026.08 to himself. Nancy Henjum ...

Editor’s note: Kevin O’Neil is co-owner of The Colorado Springs Independent. His opinions are his own and do not influence The Independent’s news coverage. Colorado Springs is debating an ...

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 ...