Manitou Springs News

Manitou Bikes opened its doors in Manitou Springs during the first week of June.

El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa reminds citizens that certain fireworks are illegal in the city of Colorado Springs.

With dozens of carbon monoxide detectors on the market - how do you know which one is the right one and how much to spend? One of Colorado's newest laws in effect Wednesday requires all rental homes and homes sold to have carbon monoxide detectors installed inside of them.

The Focus on the Family ministry welcomed a Westminster family to its center with balloons and lunch because they helped the Colorado Springs-based ministry reach a milestone - the 3-million-visitors mark.

Police are investigating an 11-year-old boy's report that he was abducted from his home in the middle of the day Thursday.

Hunched over their potter's wheels, flecked by wet clay, potters from across Colorado worked against the unusual din of fanfare on Saturday: cheering, applause and the whir of digital cameras, capturing them in action.

Valerie Meyers woke up on Monday 30 minutes before her alarm rang, eager to paint.

Jun. 24--MANITOU SPRINGS --The historic Cliff House inn will be getting a big brother to the west after the Manitou Springs City Council on Tuesday approved a renovation of the Wheeler House that will add 79 rooms to the Cliff House's current 54.

El Paso and Pueblo counties will receive almost $200,000 in grants for park projects.

Business is brisk for carbon monoxide detectors, due to a state law effective July 1. Inspired by a string of carbon monoxide poisoning deaths last winter, the measure requires detectors be placed in new homes and those that sell, and in rentals when new tenants move in.

If you have paid a fine for parking in the Barr Trail parking lot since 2001, you should go immediately to Manitou Springs city hall and demand that your money be repaid.

In an overgrown garden behind Miramont Castle, a crowd of people - many of them teens - donned dirty gloves and wielded clanking trowels as they tugged weeds from the garden beds, clearing the way for a colorful array of flowers and shrubs.

Richard Ross Lea, 65, of Fort Collins died peacefully in his sleep at home on Sat., June 6, 2009.

A crash at Voyager Parkway and Interquest Parkway in northern Colorado Springs sent two people to the hospital this morning.

A hiker has died while climbing one of Colorado's most difficult trails. A heart attack is suspected in the Sunday morning death on the Manitou Incline.

Birds of a feather flock together, and this weekend, that flock is composed of Vespas, Lambrettas, Genuines and other motor scooters, new and old, rusted and cherry, darting down side streets and collecting outside local bars during the 10th annual Moving on Up Scooter Rally, hosted by the Peak Scooter Club.

It targets seniors. They receive a call from someone pretending to be their loved one asking for money to get out of trouble.

Colorado Springs police officers are looking for a man who attacked a female jogger Tuesday morning.

It's a hanging offense to utter this sort of sacrilege, but Manitou Springs is getting a bit more like Colorado Springs all the time.

Book launch, reading and signing of "The Splatters Learn Some Manners," 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Poor Richard's Bookstore, 320 N. Tejon St.