March 18, 2020, was my 18th birthday and the day Gov. Jared Polis closed schools in Colorado. I don’t remember much about the ...

Shane Lory, local singer-songwriter of the ever-evolving band Patchwork Jack, looks the part — working behind the bar at Lulu ...

This is the second installment of a column from John Harner, professor of geography at University of Colorado Colorado ...

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For full events listings, click here! 1. THE SHEARN DIMENSION Through Saturday, March 15, Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery at Ent ...

I was 17 years old. My friends and I were going out to a party, and we had spent a lot of time crafting the perfect outfits ...

For the first time in this country’s history, scores of federal government employees, many of them in their probationary ...

Ben Currie was in a bad place in 2021. In his mid-20s and fresh out of the military, he found himself unmoored. “I was in the ...

There it is,” I point out to a group of UCCS students. Most are underwhelmed as they look at a grass-covered linear ...

I’ve been thinking about the JFK assassination a lot lately. This isn’t unusual for me. I went to high school only a few ...

The Colorado Springs Independent captures the essence of this city, engaging with its political and environmental issues ...