INEWS101 - Flowers wrap a stop sign where Mayra Cervantes, 18, and Cesar Ramirez-Ibanez, 21, were randomly shot and killed as they hung a yard sale sign on July 6, 2008 in Colorado Springs. Their deaths would add to the toll in Colorado’s deadliest neighborhood during the 12-year span been the mass shooting tragedies at Columbine and Aurora. Census Tract 54.00, a southeastern Colorado Springs enclave of 1960s tract houses, apartment complexes and four public schools, recorded 24 gun deaths during the period. (Joe Mahoney/I-News Network at Rocky Mountain PBS)

Colorado’s deadliest neighborhood

A Colorado Springs neighborhood of 1960s tract homes, apartments and schools — where postcard-perfect views of Pikes Peak frame the skyline – led the state in gun deaths over the 12 years between the mass shooting tragedies at Columbine High and the …

Gov. Hickenlooper signs over $5M for Eisenhower Tunnel

A cluster of people gathered Saturday morning outside the west entrance of the Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel along Interstate 70 to watch Gov. John Hickenlooper sign a bill that will appropriate $5 million for the installation of a fire suppress …

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Royal Gorge Rafting company guide Graeme Singleton leading a trip down the Royal Gorge. Sports and outdoor editor Sebastian Foltz paddling(upper right)

Royal Gorge: not for the faint of heart

There’s something special about rafting or paddling a new section of river. You can read about it beforehand and imagine how it will run. You can hear stories from other people, but nothing beats that moment when you’re approaching the rapids. First …

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Volunteers gathered for free food and music at the Riverwalk center after the town cleanup in Breckenridge yesterday afternoon.

Spring cleaning in towns throughout Summit County

All the familiar sights of Summit County in the springtime were present on Saturday. Cyclists navigated recpaths, tourists sauntered down sidewalks and cars zipped back and forth on the highway. But yesterday morning, another site was hard to miss. …

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Senator Udall's proposal to make Brown's Canyon a National monument, could mean a positive boost for the local rafting industry, say some area rafting companies.

Udall seeks feedback on proposed national monument

GOLDEN, Colo. — U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is asking for the public’s help in crafting legislation to create a national monument that would include 22,000 acres on both sides of the Arkansas River between Salida and Buena Vista in south-central Colorado — …

Think ‘waffle’ to square up a water-wise veggie garden

With the warming of daytime temps and the soil, we get closer each day to planting those warm-season vegetables most gardeners love — peas, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans and more. Yet the drought still looms. This year, in partic …

WOTR: It’s time to see exactly how the sausage gets made

This February in Salt Lake City, Amy Meyer stood on the street and used her cell phone to record what was happening outside a slaughterhouse. She then became the first person charged under one of the new so-called “ag-gag” laws. Six states currently …

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A student at Summit Cove Elementary grins a muddy grin as he comes out of the mud pit at the Muddy Coyote event Friday. The event was held as a fundraiser with the goal of getting an iPad for every student.

Summit Cove students get muddy for technology

It was one of those perfect, sunny, cloudless Colorado days. As the sun beat down on the playground at Summit Cove Elementary School, students dashed back and forth, leaping hurdles and crawling through mud pits. This wasn’t just an ordinary recess; …

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High Country Conservation Center’s Jennifer Santry designed a new non-credit at Colorado Mountain College class about how to raise backyard chickens.

Learning to live a simpler, High Country lifestyle

In a world full of gadgets and gizmos, it’s hard not to wonder what it might be like to go back to a simpler way of life — back when High Country pioneers and miners grew their own food, raised their own chickens and gathered honey straight from thei …