Page 98 - Koaa News Today

Mayor John Suthers has nominated Deputy Chief Adrian Vasquez to serve as the chief of police for the Colorado Springs Police Department.

Fire Restrictions have been ordered for all unincorporated areas of El Paso County, Pueblo County and Teller County due to the extreme fire danger rating.

Multiple crews are responding to an outside fire near 1010 Blaney Road in El Paso County. The Cimarron Hills Fire Department, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, and the Ellicott Fire Department are on the scene.

El Paso County Health has re-worked its COVID-19 data dashboard to include fewer data points and it will be updated weekly rather than daily.

A wildfire fire is burning in northwest Pueblo near the Arkansas River. The PAWS For Life shelter is being evacuated and neighboring homes are on pre-evacuation notice.

Pueblo fire crews are battling a fire near Ramsgate and Massari near CSU-Pueblo in Belmont.

Fort Carson is conducting a 950 acre controlled burn that may be visible to the community.

During the pandemic, many families were forced to do some version of homeschooling, and numbers show many families in our area stuck with it.

The last two years have been anything but normal and now doctors have been seeing more people coming in with cold-like symptoms - when they normally wouldn’t.

Scam and fraud attacks are being reported at an all-time high and while just about any of us can fall for these schemes our seniors continue to be a primary target.