In a hallway at Doherty High School in northeast Colorado Springs, shiny plaques adorn a gold-painted wall where a row of ...

Winter weather is always a mixed bag on the Front Range and Pikes Peak region.  Newcomers are usually surprised to learn that ...

Get ready for some W.I.P.-lash, because it’s been a busy fortnight in the arts. It seems like cheating to mention a nonlocal ...

Singer-songwriter Jeremy Facknitz is pretty sure he has more in common with a Tupperware salesman in the 1980s than a modern ...

The Colorado Springs Independent captures the essence of this city, engaging with its political and environmental issues while highlighting its vibrant cultural scene.

A lawsuit aimed at blocking a move to close Rockrimmon Library was filed in the early hours of Friday by several non-profit ...

A few days after the election, I met a plumber at my house who was wearing a red “Trump for President” hat. I needed his help ...

The fight to keep Rockrimmon Library open may lead to a positive change on City Council, bringing an end to the ...

It was a night of scholarship. An audience had gathered in the Fine Arts Center for the Spotlight Series — marketed as a “TED ...

S teve Wood was all over the place. Wearing a fedora, T-shirt and paint-splattered hiking pants, he bounced around with the elasticity of a rubber ball as he came up to the mic. Standing in a wide ...

It was the summer of 2015 when the Animas River in southern Colorado turned such a garish orange-gold that it made national news. The metallic color came from the Gold King Mine, near the town ...