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Persistent power outages in Puerto Rico spark outrage as officials demand...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A growing number of Puerto Rican government officials on Thursday demanded answers from two private electric companies as the U.S. territory struggles with persistent...

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CSP holds press conference on fatal crash on Highway 6

PALISADE, Colo. (KREX) - A horrifying crash just after 10:30 Wednesday morning closed a major thoroughfare between Clifton and Palisade. Three people were killed including two Colorado Department of...

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Ugandan Olympic athlete dies after being set on fire by her partner

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner, a hospital...

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US secures the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The U.S. government announced Thursday that it secured the release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners, who have arrived in Guatemala where they will apply for entry to the...

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Police deny Venezuela gang has taken over rundown apartment complex in Denver...

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex — yet the allegation continues...

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Shooter's sanity at issue as trial begins in Colorado supermarket mass killing

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man who gunned down 10 people in a supermarket mass shooting was not insane when he unleashed terror in a Colorado college town but a calculated killer who knew what he did was...

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Burn season begins in Grand Valley

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Open burn season is officially underway in the Grand Valley. Residents within Grand Junction city limits are allowed to burn vegetative waste from last Sunday to Sept....

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Mesa County Coroner's Office releases Identity of those killed in fatal car...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — On Wednesday, a fatal accident occurred off Highway 6, near mile marker 40. Resulting in the loss of three lives from the Grand Valley community. This tragic event has...

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Pope heads to Papua New Guinea after final Mass in Indonesia before an...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Indonesia on Friday after celebrating Mass before an overflow crowd of 100,000, a final celebration before heading to Papua New Guinea...

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Macron names EU's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as France’s new prime...

PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron named Michel Barnier as France’s new prime minister on Thursday, hoping the Brexit negotiator and veteran conservative can work with the country's bitterly...

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Palisade Kombucha talks new tasting room

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — On Friday, Will McGough from Palisade Kombucha stopped by the studio to share some exciting news. Palisade Kombucha opened a new tasting room on Aug. 25! If you'd like...

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City begins next steps of Fourth, Fifth Street pilot project

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) - The City of Grand Junction will start the upcoming stage of the Fourth and Fifth Street Pilot Project next week. Work will begin on Monday on Fifth Street heading north...

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Sluggish US jobs report clears the way for Federal Reserve to cut interest rates

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring by America’s employers picked up a bit in August from July’s tepid pace, and the unemployment rate dipped for the first time since March in a sign that the job market may be...

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County approves 29 Road, TABOR refund ballot measures

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — The Mesa County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the submission of two ballot measures for the upcoming election. The first ballot measure, if approved, would...

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CSP announces findings in Highway 6 fatal crash; Polis to have flags at...

PALISADE, Co. (KREX) - The Colorado State Patrol announced Friday it believes the U.S. Highway 6 crash was the result of the Jeep Grand Cherokee driver colliding with a Colorado Department of...

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GJPD looking into 'suspicious death'

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) - The Grand Junction Police Department is investigating the unattended death of a male found around 10 p.m., Thursday. According to a GJPD press release, the "suspicious...

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One arrested in stabbing

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Multiple agencies were involved in the arrest of 40-year-old Scott Lorman who was taken into custody, accused of stabbing and violently assaulting both his mother and...

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Storage facility catches fire in Clifton; blazed caused by welding next to...

CLIFTON, Colo. (KREX) - Around 5 1:15 p.m., Friday, a fire was started at Clifton Mini Storage after a propane tank caught on fire after a person was welding next to an RV, according to fire...

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RFK Jr. notches wins in North Carolina and Michigan in his effort to get off...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. scored a pair of legal victories Friday in the battleground states of North Carolina and Michigan, and a setback in Wisconsin, in his quest to get his name...

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Man charged with plotting shooting at a New York Jewish center on anniversary...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani man was arrested in Canada this week and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that...

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