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Premium Content Subscriber only This year has been a harder year than most and after witnessing bushfires, floods and a pandemic, you might be asking what went right in 2020? At The Northern Star and Tweed Daily News, we have dug through our story archives to bring you some of the most heart-warming stories we covered this year.   What do you do with an excess of mangoes? Sell them of course. This brother and sister duo teamed up to help the devestated Koala population through their sal...

Monycka Snowbird, left, argues against keeping the Cheyenne Mountain Indians mascot with a supporter, who declined to give her name, outside the Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 board work session in the fall of 2020. Snowbird and the other indigenous people who attended the protest felt the mascot is racists against their heritage. Supporters of the mascot said the Indians mascot was an honor and full of school tradition. About 50 people lined the street outside the school district’s adm...

I’ll never forget 2020. As a veteran photojournalist I’ve covered fires, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters. You can see the dangers involved with them. COVID-19 was different. You couldn’t

That item was resolution of the stormwater litigation against the city. Three years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with several other agencies, sued the city over violations of the Clean Water Act. The suit alleged the city had failed to require developers to install stormwater runoff controls. The agencies won a partial judgment in November 2018 in U.S. District Court. The city was facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, but the agencies agreed to negotiate a set...

That item was resolution of the stormwater litigation against the city. Three years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with several other agencies, sued the city over violations of the Clean Water Act. The suit alleged the city had failed to require developers to install stormwater runoff controls. The agencies won a partial judgment in November 2018 in U.S. District Court. The city was facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, but the agencies agreed to negotiate a set...

El Paso County Commissioner Mark Waller poses for a portrait at the Board of County Commissioners building in Colorado Springs on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Waller was elected in 2016 to serve on the board and represent District 2. After four years his term is ending. Republican Carrie Geitner will succeed Waller in January. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette) Chancey Bush/ The Gazette

Local leaders ask Gov. Polis to re-open indoor restaurant dining COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado Springs and El Paso County officials have issues with the 5-star certification program for Colorado restaurants, and they asked the state to reopen indoor dining. El Paso County Commission Chair Mark Waller says Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, the head of Visit COS, the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and others joined him in sending a letter to the governor on Friday. “It’...

Statewide 5 Star program not what local leaders expected This week the state health department approved a 5-star variance program to give businesses more flexibility and help them rebound. But as our Andy Koen reports, the plan that was approved is different from what local business leaders were expecting. and last updated 2020-12-19 00:10:18-05 COLORADO SPRINGS — The cheese comes out bubbling hot on Paninos namesake dish as it rolls out from the pizza oven and is boxed up for carry-out an...

© REUTERS/Toby Melville FILE PHOTO: The MI6 building in London August 25, 2010While debate rages over controversial spying legislation in the UK, other disclosures indicate British spooks have long been secretly free to commit crimes with impunity anyway. There has rightly been intense controversy over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) bill in recent months. The legislation would enshrine in law the ability of undercover operatives - both employees of British state agencies and thei...

Colorado Springs and El Paso County on Monday announced a Sales Tax Relief plan, expected to be approved by the Colorado Springs City Council in January and which could be approved by the Board of County Commissioners this month, according to a joint news release.  Monies for the relief program will come out of the General Funds portion of sales and use tax for each organization — 2% for Colorado Springs and 1% for El Paso County. “Most of our local restaurant owners have worked hard to pr...