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For years, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has struggled to staff the positions that include highway maintenance and snow plow work.

Officials said Tuesday that traffic deaths in Colorado — including Colorado Springs — have become "a crisis" after the state had "an unfortunate milestone" last year with the most road

Agencies across Colorado are urging drivers to be safer after the state recorded a 20-year high in traffic fatalities in 2021.

More than 670 people were killed on Colorado roads in 2021 – the most deaths in 19 years, according to a report released Tuesday by the Colorado Department of Transportation.

Officials said Tuesday that traffic deaths in Colorado — including Colorado Springs — have become "a crisis" after the state had "an unfortunate milestone" last year with the most road

More than 670 people were killed on Colorado roads in 2021 – the most deaths in 19 years, according to a report released Tuesday by the Colorado Department of Transportation.

Chelsea Self / Post Independent A major rock and debris flow down the Devil’s Hole drainage in Glenwood Canyon last week was largely unexpected in terms of its impact on Interstate 70, state transportation officials said Wednesday. The massive debris flow caused by a rainstorm the evening of July 22 dumped piles of large rocks and trees into the Colorado River, damming the river and forcing it out of its channel up against the highway’s eastbound deck structure. Concerns about the water and...

Chelsea Self / Post Independent A major rock and debris flow down the Devil’s Hole drainage in Glenwood Canyon last week was largely unexpected in terms of its impact on Interstate 70, state transportation officials said Wednesday. , damming the river and forcing it out of its channel up against the highway’s eastbound deck structure. as a result. Westbound lanes weren’t reopened until early Saturday morning, and the eastbound lanes remained closed until later that day. “The reason we ...

From 8 p.m. Monday, April 12, 2021 to 5 a.m. Tuesday, April 13, 2021 and again from 8 p.m. April 16 through 5 a.m. April 17 there will be a full closure of southbound I-25 beneath the County Line Road bridge. The County Line Road bridge and the northbound I-25 off-ramp to County Line Road will also be closed. Drivers should use the Colorado 105 interchange for local access. To access southbound I-25, travelers should drive north on I-25 and turn around at the Greenland Road interchange. (Courte...

Trucks and cars sit on Interstate 70 at Floyd Hill on Sunday due to spun-out vehicles ahead. (Colorado Department of Transportation, Special to the Daily) Colorado Department of Transportation and Colorado State Patrol are again warning drivers that hazardous travel conditions will continue through the night and likely into Monday morning. CDOT crews are concentrating their efforts across the state on clearing primary routes first, such as interstates, U.S. highways and state highways, accordin...