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Scott Harrison

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Since late 2024, we’ve been watching the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) make steady progress on the building of five bridges across Interstate 25, Fountain Creek, and the Union Pacific Railroad.

And now, starting this weekend, drivers will get a closer look at the project.

Beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, crews will shift the two northbound lanes of I-25 to the east, near the redesigned interchange of US 50 east.

Workers will install signs and barriers for the change.

Drivers will use a temporary path that is partly paved with both asphalt and concrete.

The shift allows crews access to the middle of the freeway, where they are currently building the two new US 50 bridges over I-25, and will replace the existing asphalt pavement with concrete.

Also, the I-25 exit to 29th Street in that area is shifting to the east, and westbound US 50 East will be closed between I-25 and the Bonforte Boulevard/Hudson Avenue intersection as part of the lane shift.

It’s the first major change in traffic configuration since the old bridge connecting I-25 to US 50 east was demolished last fall.

Meanwhile, crews are working on three more bridges: Two across the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and a third across Fountain Creek.

CDOT expects to make a similar lane shift on southbound I-25 next month, and hopes to have some traffic on the railroad and creek bridges by mid-July.

Other crews are building a new sound wall to reduce traffic noise for the neighborhood west of I-25.

“But we’re just working on the framework for now,” said Patrick Vigil, a CDOT resident engineer. “We’ll be using those crews to get the (overpasses) finished because that’s the priority. The sound wall panels will be installed after that.”

The sound wall will stretch from just south of 29th Street to just north of 13th Street.

CDOT said that the $114 million overall project should be finished a year from now.

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Bradley Davis

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) – Pueblo is giving its best effort to make Halloween a bi-annual event. “Summerween” returns Saturday, this time inside the Pueblo Mall.

“With everything going on, all the rising costs of everything, I think it’s just something nice to do for the community, have a free event where people can just come and enjoy, hopefully forget about all that stuff outside, and just come in, enjoy this event, play some cornhole and enjoy the movies, too,” organizer and “Jed’s Nightmare” owner Jared Perea said.

Hosted by the “Funhouse Haunted House” and Jed’s Nightmare, the free event includes all of Halloween’s favorite traditions, with trick-or-treating and your best costume encouraged. Below is a full list of activities.

🎃 Trick-or-treating

👗 Halloween fashion show

🎭 Costume contest

👑 Horror scream contest

🎯 $40 per team Cornhole tournament with cash prizes

🎬 Local horror movie showcase

🎧 DJ + live entertainment

🧟 Cosplayers

They will also have almost 50 vendors selling food, knick-knacks and a wide range of hand-made items.

Summerween starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. on Saturday. People can come through any entrance in the mall. You can find the vendors near the JCPenney, while the horror movie showings are near the kiddie play area on the southwest wing of the mall.

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Michael Logerwell

MONUMENT, Colo. (KRDO) – On Thursday night, while angry Colorado Springs residents gathered to voice their opposition to the Project Taurus Data Center, the front step of Monument Town Hall was quiet.

That’s because there’s no data center proposal in the Town of Monument, and there could never be one as town leadership considers an outright ban on the proposition.

“We wanted to investigate what that looks like. So we asked them to start doing the research behind what data center impacts would be on Monument based on what we were seeing from a national trend,” Monument Mayor Mitch LaKind said he first directed the planning department to look into data centers after watching national news coverage. From Colorado to Utah, to Texas, and more, data centers have become synonymous with heated opposition from residents, concerns over water/energy usage, and more.

Due in part to that coverage, Mayor LaKind said he wanted to find out what rules the town had about data centers.

“Data centers have never been defined in Monument,” Mayor LaKind revealed. It turns out there were none.

However, that could soon change.

This week, the Monument Planning Department released its first report on data centers and their potential impact on Monument.

“We’re being really proactive and really intentional to make sure that we don’t do anything that’s going to harm the landscape. Our ability to keep our utility rates where they are, because they are already climbing anyway, but we don’t want to artificially inflate them by allowing a data center in. And we are concerned about the water usage,” Mayor LaKind said.

At the end of the interview, I asked Mayor LaKind straight up if Monument was off-limits to any data centers.

“I can’t unilaterally say that because we’ve not taken a vote on it, but I can say that we have no code that allows for their use. And we are looking to see what it means, whether we’re going to allow their use at all,” he replied.

KRDO13 will continue to follow this story as an ordinance potentially banning data centers makes its way to the town hall in Monument and other Southern Colorado municipalities.

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Rob Namnoum

Day 1 state track and field at Jefferson County Stadium.

Awesome atmosphere as we go over to the 4a girls triple jump finals, Lily Nibert of Pueblo County with a personal best of 37 feet and 2 ¾ inches, she placed fourth but it’s the sophomore Skylar Angelidis from Palmer High School getting a personal best 38 feet, 6 ¼ inch to win the state title. “I’m literally shaking right now. This is so cool. I love track so much, and this is such a fun environment, so I’m just grateful to be here and to win. This is awesome.” says Angelidis.

Over to the Boys 4a shotput, the reigning champion Owen Twesme of Palmer Ridge looking to go back to back. A winning throw for him and a state meet record of 60 feet 11 inches as he wins it again, “Got every ounce of momentum I had to throw right through into the shot. And I knew the second, at least I was like, that’s that’s a state record.,” says Twesme.

Then all eyes at 4a boys high jump, Nathan Moller Palmer Ridge duking it out with his friend Josiah Garcia of Mesa Ridge at 6’7. Moller with a chance to win a state title and he does!

But he’s not done, he’s going for a personal best of 6’10 and on his third attempt he got it!, “And so I put it up there and then I had a couple not so good jumps. And then that last jump started that club, and, I’m just really happy how it went. Honestly,” says Moller.

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Bradley Davis

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Volunteers with the Friends of Cheyenne Cañon are preparing for the 33rd annual Hummingbird festival Saturday as accessibility improvements wrap up at the Starsmore Visitor and Nature Center.

The festival starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 2 p.m. The schedule is packed with different bird talks, nature walks, and live raptor demonstrations and education with the Pueblo Raptor Center. The nature center will also host local vendors, arts and crafts, and, of course, lots and lots of hummingbird feeders.

Friends of Cheyenne Cañon said it pushed the festival back a week and expects the main plaza at the Starsmore Nature Center to be open on Saturday. If it’s not open, they will move just down the path to the South Cañon picnic space. People can park on the street or in the lot right off of Evans Avenue and S Cheyenne Canyon Road.

The nature center has been under construction since early March. The city is adding a new outdoor plaza and classroom space, renovated restrooms, parking improvements, and accessibility improvements to meet the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards.

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Scott Harrison

FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Crews with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) have so far removed dozens of concrete pavement panels that were cracked and broken along the five miles of Highway 115 in Pensose.   

And this week, workers were still using saws to cut out the remaining affected panels on the north end of the project area.

CDOT has closed the northbound lanes in that stretch, and one lane in each direction shares the southbound lanes; there is a constant noise from southbound traffic passing over the rumble strips on the right shoulder.

There are several intersections where drivers can turn onto or off the highway.    

Although the panels come in a variety of sizes, many are surprisingly long, wide, and deep; some empty slots have been removed and filled with new concrete.

Wayne Pittman, a resident engineer with CDOT, cited three factors contributing to the problem: The age of the concrete (it was installed in 1992), wear and tear from constant heavy truck traffic, and groundwater or clay soil that undermined the panels.

“The panels are roughly 12 feet by 15 feet,” he explained. “There are around 125 full-panel repairs. For the partial panel repairs, there are over 300. We’ve added 90 to the full-panel repairs because once we got into it, we found that we needed to do more.”

The solution, Pittman said, is to improve drainage by removing groundwater or clay, adding larger rocks and soil to the existing base, and finally pouring fresh concrete over it.

“It’s just a surface repair to preserve the pavement and give us another 20 years before we’ll need to replace all of the concrete,” he stated.

Crews will eventually inspect southbound panels to determine what repairs are needed there.

The $3.6 million project started in March and continues through September.

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Scott Harrison

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — Much of downtown was in darkness overnight because of a power outage that cut electricity to street lights, traffic signals, and businesses.

KRDO 13’s The Road Warrior noticed the situation as he arrived to report on a paving project just before 5 a.m. Wednesday.

The downtown McDonald’s also lost power, affecting normal operations there and delaying the unloading of a supply truck, before power returned just before 5:30 a.m.

One woman told The Road Warrior that power also appeared to be out in the neighborhood around Parkview Medical Center, just north of downtown.

As of 6:30 a.m., power had been restored on the west side of downtown but remained out on the east side.

Authorities advise drivers to treat intersections without working traffic signals as four-way stops.

The reason for the outage is unclear; KRDO 13 will provide an update as more information becomes available.

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Scott Harrison

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) — A street repaving that didn’t happen as scheduled last year will be the first this year in the Steel City and Home of Heroes.

Crews have begun removing old pavement from a mile of 6th Street, through the middle of downtown, from Interstate 25 to the Midtown Shopping Center.

On Tuesday, a fleet of dump trucks parked in a vacant area of the shopping center parking lot; one by one, they collected the old asphalt that a milling machine had chopped up.

The work has started at the west end of the project area and is advancing east, even though much of 6th Street is one-way in the opposite direction.

City officials said that parts of the four-lane street were last repaved in 2002 and 2008.

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Bradley Davis

COLORADO, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) said 15 motorcyclists across the state died between January and March, the highest number since 2017.

CDOT said it’s an alarming number this early in the year, before what it calls the “100 deadliest days of summer.” CDOT said historically, nearly 60% of motorcycle deaths happen between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Without drawing a direct correlation, CDOT did point to our unusually warm Winter in its press release about the elevated Winter motorcycle deaths.

Last July, KRDO13 reported that motorcycle deaths in El Paso County were double what they were the year before. However, statewide motorcycle deaths decreased from 2024 to 2025.

CDOT released crash data dating back to 2011. 2024 was by far the highest on the list with 165 deaths. The number fell to 148 in 2025, which is still nearly double the number of deaths reported in 2011 (78).

The population in the state of Colorado has grown by about 15% since 2011, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED), while motorcycle deaths hovers around a 100% increase in that time.

Colorado legalized lane filtering for motorcycles in the summer of 2024. Colorado State Patrol said the law is intended to lower the number of rear-end collisions with motorcycles.

In 2025, the State Patrol told KRDO13 it had observed motorcyclists driving more recklessly because of confusion over the new law. However, it clarified there was no data indicating the new law was leading to a higher number of traffic accidents and deaths.

Instead, CDOT said speed, alcohol and helmet use all contribute to the upward trend. It said riders weren’t wearing a helmet in nearly half of all motorcycle fatalities.

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Rob Namnoum

The Palmer Ridge girls soccer team lost to Windsor in the Class 4A playoffs on Tuesday night 3-0.

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