CSBJ Daily

Cimarron Street Bridge is still a work in progress, and now the public is invited to gaze upon its girders tomorrow as crews start a major milestone in the project.The public can view the placement of 48 concrete girders from the south end of America the Beautiful Park. The city […]

Midwest Airlines announced today that it will discontinue service between Colorado Springs and Kansas City on April 5.
Midwest said its withdrawal from Colorado Springs is because of rising fuel prices and competition with other carriers.
Midwest has provided two daily flights using 50-seat regional jets since July 2007.
The flights […]

As a city, we’ve got rock-hard abs, glutes of steel, not to mention speed, endurance and maximal oxygen uptake. How do we know? Because Men’s Fitness Magazine just named Colorado Springs “the fittest city in America.”
We beat out all of those nacho-munchin’, beer-guzzling, fast-food gobbling couch potatoes in every other city in […]

Two Colorado Springs organizations that promote tourism earned a matching grant of $15,000 from the Colorado Tourism Office.
Experience Colorado Springs at Pikes Peak, the convention and visitors’ bureau, and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, or COPPeR, will use the shared grant money to enhance PeakRadar.com, a cultural activities […]

Rick O’Connell, president and CEO of Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, resigned today citing “personal reasons.”

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O’Connell will continue to act as a consultant for the hospital system’s special projects, including the grand opening of the new St. Francis Medical Center. The $207 million full-service hospital will open in August.
Phil Shaw has […]

On Monday, Peak Vista will open its new Family Health Center at 225 S. Union.
The 34,000-square-foot facility has been completely renovated and will have 48 exam rooms that will support 16 doctors.
Peak Vista’s pharmacy, lab, registration and health education centers will also be moved to the new […]

Golf enthusiasts say a golf-world milestone has been reached by the 2008 U.S. Senior Open championship because volunteers from all 50 states have signed up to help.
The top five states for volunteer recruitment are Colorado (2,355), Texas (81), Kansas (60), Arizona (39) and Nebraska (36). A total of 3,000 volunteers […]

Choice Hotels International has finalized a national development agreement with Bell Hospitality Group to build at least 50 extended-stay brand hotels, one of which is planned for Colorado Springs.
A Springs location has not been announced, but it will be among the first nine properties built by BHG. Construction is expected to begin […]

The Colorado Department of Corrections’ southern Colorado office expects to begin an official search for a new location by the end of the year.
The regional headquarters is at 2862 Janitell Road in Colorado Springs, where the agency leases the entire 65,000-square-foot building. That lease […]

The City of Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services will receive a $120,000 grant from the Phil Long Community Fund and Denver Broncos Charities to help build its destination skate park in Memorial Park.
The new facility, which will be just north of the Sertich Ice Center, will be designed to accommodate […]