El Paso County News

About 12 acres burned at the intersection of Hwy 94 and Peyton Hwy around 1:45 p.m. on Sunday.

A toxic and dangerous weed continues to grow in El Paso County and is threatening the health of horses who eat it.

The El Paso County Sheriff's Department was called out to 1759 Whitehall road in the Stratmoor Hills neighborhood about a family disturbance around 6:00 Thursday evening.

County firefighters worry July 4th may be a busy night as people ignite their own fireworks in areas without a firework ban.

Deputies are searching for a woman wanted on several charges based on passing off a friend's checks as her own.

Fireworks and dry conditions could add up to a potentially dangerous weekend for firefighters.

Debbie Rhea first got the news from a neighbor in Manitou Springs. The one-bedroom, basement apartment she moved into in September 2006 had once doubled as a methamphetamine lab, a discovery made seven years ...

Squeezed by soaring energy prices, governments around the nation are reacting just like consumers -- changing basic routines, and scrimping and saving in order to get by.

A grass fire has been fully contained in Eastern El Paso County. The fire started near Highway 94 and Paige Road.

Here's an update on recharge efforts for the Upper Black Squirrel Basin aquifer, from The Colorado Springs Gazette .

Barack Obama has a new political heavyweight in his corner helping with his upcoming campaign in El Paso County Wednesday.

The Southern Colorado Drug Task Force today revealed the arrest on June 25 of four members of a drug trafficking cell based in Mexico that has been operating in Colorado Springs.

The teen whose car had gone off of Pikes Peak Highway is now rescued. El Paso County Search and Rescue helped bring the teen to safety after about 8 hours.

A Thunderstorm that passed over the Eastern Plains around the 8:00pm this evening is the suspected source of a rash of wildfires burning in El Paso County.

A 17-year-old plunged his car off the summit of Pikes Peak this afternoon, in authorities said appeared to be a suicide attempt.

Police in a Colorado Springs suburb shot and killed a man whose two children subsequently died of injuries police said he may have inflicted on them.

A man suspected of killing his two children had charged at deputies with a knife before they shot and killed him at his home just west of Manitou Springs, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Monday.

An autopsy on two small children allegedly killed by their father Sunday afternoon did not show signs of trauma.

Haggard was forced from his position as the head of the megachurch following his admission of "sexually immorality" after escort Mike Jones came forward saying the pastor paid him for sex over a period of three ...

A mother called the El Paso County Sheriff's Department concerned about her children this afternoon, only to have her worst fears realized.