Outside the Springs

Between 2019 and 2020, crime rose almost 9 percent in Colorado, according to newly released FBI statistics. That's the fifth-highest increase in the crime rate in the country.

In September 2021, Donala Water and Sanitation District, which serves the area between southern Monument and Gleneagle, informed its customers that their drinking water had high levels of radium and might want to switch to an alternative drinking supply. Donala gets its water from the Denver Basin.

Car theft is spiking in Colorado. Statistics and information from law enforcement, government, researchers, and all levels of media confirm this as shown below. The surge in stolen vehicles is more than simple property crime.

If you watch futuristic movies made in the 1980s or ‘90s, there's often the theme of hazardous fuels being obsolete thanks to technological advances. For example, at the end of the 1985 movie "Back to the Future," Doc Brown uses trash from a nearby dumpster to fuel his DeLorean time machine instead of plutonium.

In April of this year, Mountain Metropolitan Transit of Colorado Springs added four fully electric buses to its fleet. Debuted on Earth Day, they signal the Transit Service's policy in their part of the infrastructure.

According to recently released findings from the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), the number of middle and high school students using tobacco products has exploded over the past few years — approximately one in 10 U.S. middle and high school students used a tobacco product during the past 30 days.

On June 25, President Biden signed S.2938, the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act," into law. The bill, which passed the U.S. Senate 65-33 on June 23, and the House 234-193 on June 24, is the first significant gun safety legislation passed by Congress in decades.

If you listen to political pundits on MSNBC or CNN, you've probably heard some variation of the question, "Is Trump a threat to democracy?"

XCel energy’s Pueblo County coal-fired Comanche Generating Station is slated to close in 2031. Environmentalist groups and state utility officials successfully shortened the deadline for closure several times.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts wants to create a long-term strategy for water rights in his state, and that plan has raised a few eyebrows in neighboring Colorado.