
It’s a wrap on the first season of lift-served winter sports at Cuchara Mountain Park in Southern Colorado
Volunteers staffed the rental shop, ticket office and other operations on Fridays and weekends.

By Shanna Lewis

New lease means more well water will flow into the City of Fountain in southern El Paso County
The Security Water District has agreed to let Fountain use a portion of its well water leased from a historic farm.

By Shanna Lewis

Despite recent precipitation, it’s still dry in southeastern Colorado and that has dire implications for agriculture in the region
The outlook for this growing season is pretty bleak for farmers who use snowmelt carried by the Arkansas River to irrigate their crops.

By Shanna Lewis

Millions in federal dollars will help Raton advance a potential interstate connection between Texas and northern New Mexico
The city will use the money to study traffic, safety and various options for a possible future interchange between Interstates 25 and 27.

By Shanna Lewis

After Trump’s veto last year, new state funding will help get clean drinking water to southeastern Colorado
Two state agencies recently approved this new infusion of money for the Arkansas Valley Conduit – the pipeline currently under construction east of Pueblo heading toward Lamar.

By Shanna Lewis

50-year-old building at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site now among the state’s most endangered places along with other Southern Colorado sites
Four other buildings are also newly listed – a pharmacy in Ordway, a theater in Buena Vista, a castle in Gunnison and a sacred adobe building in San Luis.

By Shanna Lewis

How to see petroglyphs around southeastern Colorado and why they aren’t everywhere
You asked about rock art on the Front Range and in the Rio Grande Basin, so we got answers.

By Shanna Lewis

The mysteries of Southern Colorado’s Indigenous rock art: Why it’s there, who made it and what threatens it
Rock art inspires “reaching into the past and trying to understand something about the ideas, the thoughts, the world of people of that time,” said archeologist Mark Mitchell.

By Shanna Lewis

A ‘Superb Owl’ party highlights the biodiversity and restoration work on Colorado’s Southern Plains
Move the “B” in Super Bowl and it becomes Superb Owl, a fundraiser for the Southern Plains Land Trust.


Crime, budget challenges and blight among Pueblo Mayor Heather Graham’s greatest concerns
Here’s what the mayor said in the Pueblo State of the City.

By Shanna Lewis

Construction begins on new space and defense technology facility at PuebloPlex
Denver-based Voyager Technologies is building a manufacturing, operations and testing complex.

By Shanna Lewis

Pueblo District 60 board narrowly approves plan to merge six elementary schools into three facilities
About 1,800 students will be affected by the plan to address declining enrollment.

By Shanna Lewis

‘Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History’ exhibit opens MLK Day at El Pueblo History Museum
Soldiers, educators and a city founder are among the often unacknowledged stories of Black Puebloans presented in the exhibit.

By Shanna Lewis

After a quarter century, Cuchara Mountain Park’s chairlift reopens in Southern Colorado
Volunteers worked for years to bring lift-served winter sports back to the Huerfano County owned park southwest of Pueblo.

By Shanna Lewis

Photos: Southern Colorado Scenic Byways and chance to see more images from around the state
Dozens of photographs taken along Colorado’s Scenic and Historic Byways will be on display in Westcliffe including images shot in 48 counties

By Shanna Lewis

Legendary Grateful Dead founding band member Bob Weir’s Colorado Springs connection
The late guitarist and songwriter attended Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs in the early sixties — before he was kicked out and co-founded the band.

By Shanna Lewis
