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.

This article appeared in the Nov. 28 print edition of The Independent. For a few hours on Nov. 19, supporters of Rockrimmon Library in Northwest Colorado Springs – the facility that the Pikes ...

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

The 14er is a curated list of the best events you should experience in Colorado Springs over the next two weeks. Listed in ...

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 ...

The fight to keep Rockrimmon Library open may lead to a positive change on City Council, bringing an end to the rubber-stamping by councilmembers of appointments to commissions and boards.

It needs more, better bus service, less distance between bus stops, pedestrian crossings to safely get to the other side of busy roads and more bike lanes, community members said after a ...