El Paso County News

If you're outside without access to a computer or a television, will you hear any warnings of severe weather in your neighborhood? In El Paso County, there are no sirens to warn you of severe weather such as a tornado warning or a thunderstorm.

El Paso County launched aA prescription discount program today that is available to its residents regardless of age, income or existing health coverage.

Still no word on how much damage from Friday's storms will cost El Paso County. The afternoon storms tore parts of the roof off the county courthouse.

Starting July 1st, all El Paso County residents are eligible for a discount prescription card, provided by the county for free.

The remains of Danice Day, a young mother missing from her Monte Vista home ince 2002, may have been found in an Arizona lake, authorities said this morning.

Jun 26, 2009 7:18 pm US/Mountain Weather Section Live Web Cams Get Weather Text Alerts DENVER A summer thunderstorm has left the El Paso County courthouse missing some of its roof.

Strong winds tore loose several air conditioners on the south tower of the El Paso County judicial building Friday Afternoon.

An elderly Wal-Mart employee who was savagely beaten by two men stealing iPods remains in the hospital, while police say surveillance tape helped them identify the attackers.

Teresa Platkus discovered eastern El Paso County isn't the lawless Wild West. When a feral dog came into her yard about a year ago, she let him have it with a .22 rifle - just like other people did when dogs threatened their livestock.

The area's cool, wet spring has lowered the fire danger but also may have lulled property owners into a false sense of security.

Two former students at CSU Pueblo with gang ties in Denver and Colorado Springs are suspected in the robbery of a Pueblo Wal-Mart during which a 66-year-old clerk was severely beaten.

Health officials suspect swine flu has sickened at least 30 children in a Texas church's youth choir group on a bus trip in Colorado.The Dallas Morning News reports that Colorado health officials suspect one or more choir members of the Grace Presbyterian Church in Plano contracted the virus in Texas before the eight-day trip began last ...

A wet spring is yielding a bumper crop of weeds and tall grass in El Paso County and Colorado Springs, and property owners who don't mow could get clipped.

A bizarre incident Friday night involving a bear entering a Colorado Springs home has many wondering if area bears are becoming more aggressive.

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.

A Colorado Springs man was sentenced in Weld County after years of criminal activity.

Police say a woman is suspected of trying to run over her husband and another woman with her car after seeing them riding together in a motorcycle.

A Colorado Springs police officer was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed an armed intruder who was burglarizing a home.

The weak economy continues to strain household budgets: About one out of every 12 El Paso County residents now receives food stamps.

Two years of tense fighting between a divided church is now over, officially. Officials with the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, based in the Springs, say they are done fighting.