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-25 in ...

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 ...

The red Ford F-250 rocked back and forth like a ship on dangerous waters as it made its way up the steep slope. “You’re not afraid of heights, are you?” asked Jerry Schnabel. “I forget to ask people ...

This past Christmas Eve, Kristy Milligan was getting ready to leave work. She runs Westside Cares, a nonprofit in Old Colorado City that provides food, health care, clothing and financial assistance ...

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a column from John Harner, professor of geography at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the author of “Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and ...

Steve 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 ...

I first met Eva Zhang on a Friday afternoon. Despite the ice-coated freeways, dozens had come for lunch at China Town Restaurant in downtown Colorado Springs. Zhang scuttled about the restaurant like ...

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 retrospective ...

Welcome to the first issue of the new Colorado Springs Independent. I know what some of you might be thinking. Again with this? Yes, again. A newspaper is a bit like a tardigrade—primitive and hard to ...

I was 17 years old. My friends and I were going out to a party, and we had spent a lot of time crafting the perfect outfits for our adventure. It was the 90s, and we’d visited Hot Topic earlier that ...

In November of last year, Colorado Springs-based Buddhist monk Thay Pho Khai — “Thay” is the Vietnamese word for “teacher” — was caring for an elderly friend and fellow Buddhist teacher who’d suffered ...

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 of ...