Fountain News

Authorities have now cleared Marksheffel Rd. between Link and Peaceful Valley on the east side of Fountain.

Thirty Army cooks who volunteered to prepare Thanksgiving vittles for 4,500 needy people will get something Thursday they too seldom witness at home or overseas: gratitude.

An accident in Colorado Springs Thursday night leaves one man seriously hurt and in trouble with the law.

A two-car rollover crash just before 11 p.m. Tuesday trapped one man beneath his vehicle and two men arrested in the incident.

Thousands of people in the Colorado Springs area have been vaccinated against swine flu , and cases have continued to decline since peaking in mid-October. But health officials are holding off on the celebratory champagne, because they realize that just a tiny fraction of El Paso County's nearly 600,000 residents have been vaccinated, even though ...

There is an H1N1 clinic taking place right now in Fountain at the Hangar. Clinic workers say there are 1,500 vaccines available and only about 100 people in line to receive them so far.

The last of four El Paso County H1N1 flu vaccination clinics is this morning in Fountain.

The El Paso County Department of Health and Environment will be taking the H1N1 vaccine clinics on the road to more rural areas of Southern Colorado.

All of the H1N1 vaccinations available for today's clinic at Harrison High School have been spoken for, according to county health officials.

The El Paso County health department says all 1,800 H1N1 vaccination doses at the Colorado Springs clinic are accounted for, as of 10:15 a.m. People started lining up at 6 a.m. at the clinic set up at New Life Church.

It took around two hours for the second El Paso County H1N1 Vaccination Clinic at New Life Church to run out of the 1,800 vaccines Friday morning.

The El Paso County Department of Health and Environment says a baby boy with underlying medical conditions has died of the H1N1 flu in El Paso County.

Election night is over, so will you or won't you be paying more taxes? The City of Fountain is waiting on whether or not a sales tax increase will take place.

Last week, we featured a feel-good look at the nine best things ever to happen to our sometimes benighted community.

Voters passed pro-transit ballot initiatives in Colorado, Michigan, and Maine, while defeating one anti-transit measure in Ohio on November 3. Taking into account the successful passage of two additional transit-related initiatives earlier in the year, the success rate for public transportation ballot initiatives in 2009 is 70 percent.

In an extremely tight race for Manitou Springs mayor, the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder is reported Councilman Marc Snyder is edging out Rick Barry with 48 percent of the vote.

South Marksheffel Road is closed at the intersections of C & S Road and Link Road in the East Widefield Fountain area due to a water main break.

A snowy autumn storm that hit the Pikes Peak region on Wednesday should lighten up today, but drivers are warned: Roads probably will remain dangerous.

Three meetings are planned Nov. 12 to explain possible sweeping cuts Colorado Springs bus service in 2010.

Each victim is a face frozen in time, haunting investigators whose job it is to bring their killers to justice decades after the trail has gone cold.