Tag: state
-
WATCH: Dash cam shows Colorado State Patrol vehicle get side swiped by box truck
At 7:10 a.m. on Tuesday, January 31, a box truck traveling westbound on Meadows Parkway (Highway 85) was in the center lane when the driver veered to the right sideswiping a vehicle traveling in the same direction one lane to the right.
-
LIFE | Georgetown Ice Racing
For the past 47 years, Our Gang 4 Wheelers club has hosted an obscure yet quintessential Colorado wintertime activity: ice racing across a frozen lake in the mountains. For seven weekends throughout January and February, the club gathers in Georgetown, Colo. to compete in different classes and obstacle courses atop the town’s lake, which this…
-
2022 | A Year in Video
Videographer Skyler Ballard presents a look back at the people, places, and events The Gazette has covered in 2022.
-
NEWS | Colorado Springs community mourns shooting at Club Q
At least five people were killed and 18 injured late Saturday in a shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, the police said early Sunday morning. On Sunday, the community gathered at vigils and services around town to mourn following the shooting. (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette)
-
Tipping Point: A Call for Change on the Colorado
One hundred years of the Colorado River Compact — the agreement that divides 15 million acre feet of water each year among the seven states of the Colorado River basin and Mexico — has wrecked on the shoals of climate change and 22 years of drought. It doesn’t work anymore. What happens when the law…
-
LIFE | Betty Ford Alpine Garden
The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, located in Vail, is the world’s highest botanical garden at an 8,200 feet altitude in the Rocky Mountains. (Video by Jon Mitchell)
-
Tipping Point: Colorado River basin farms stunted by megadrought
Farmers across the Colorado River Basin are facing an uncertain future in agriculture as the river’s watershed faces ongoing drought, rising irrigation costs, and conservation cutbacks. (Video by Skyler Ballard)