Debbie Kelley

After camping for a few days, the first thing that most people want to do when they arrive home is take a shower.

The interim leader of Springs Rescue Mission, which operates Colorado Springs’ largest homeless shelter and services campus south of downtown, has become the organization’s new president and CEO, the Christian-based nonprofit announced Tuesday.Travis Williams, who worked for the past eight years as the rescue mission’s chief development officer, takes over the leadership role following a national search to replace Jack Briggs, who left the position Sept. 30 after four years.“Springs Rescue Mission is one of those places that if you don’t believe in miracles, you can’t help but see miracles every day,” Williams said.

“So let me show you how close the church is,” the Rev. Benjamin Anderson said Wednesday to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.

“So let me show you how close the church is,” the Rev. Benjamin Anderson said Wednesday to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.

A breakdown in contract negotiations between Children’s Hospital Colorado and TriWest Healthcare Alliance has led the nonprofit pediatric hospital system to move to “non-network participating provider” status beginning Jan. 1, according to officials.Doing so will provide “additional time to work on a sustainable agreement,” said Greg Raymond, president of the Colorado Springs-based Southern Region of the hospital network.Officials from Children’s Hospital Colorado have not yet determined whether they will sign a contract as a “non-network, non-participating provider,” he added.As negotiations continue, if the two entities do not reach an agreement by June 1, Children’s Hospital Colorado will decide what it will do next, Raymond said in an interview with The Gazette.“This is an interim step to allow us to work in good faith with TriWest,” he said. “We’ve got to negotiate a middle ground for TRICARE to save money and for Children’s being able to provide services families deserve and allow for us to be sustainable.”

In a small way and for a short time, people who attend the annual Longest Night vigil in Colorado Springs get a tiny glimpse of what it’s like to live on the streets.

Five doctors who were fired from Peak Vista Community Health Centers in July and August were wrongly terminated, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a letter issued Thursday.

Five doctors who were fired from Peak Vista Community Health Centers in July and August were wrongly terminated, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a letter issued Thursday.

The glow from Christmas tree bulbs will shine with the brightness of menorah candles on Wednesday.

Hope apparently is hip. While some radio station formats are shrinking across the nation — including country music, classic hits and