House Bill 24-1353 moves through Colorado Senate
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — House Bill 24-1353 would require businesses that sell $20,000 or more in firearms sales to obtain a state-regulated version of a Federal Firearms License as well....
View ArticleMosaic, a nonprofit helping adults with disabilities
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The Grand Junction chapter of Colorado's nonprofit organization Mosaic has been supporting Western Slope residents with intellectual disabilities for 38 years. They...
View ArticleColorado Stampede looking for volunteers
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The Colorado Stampede rodeo is returning to Grand Junction after 20 years, and the organizers are requesting the community's assistance. They are seeking volunteers for...
View ArticleFormer Palisade High School teacher appears in court
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — In November of 2023, a Palisade High School teacher was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a former student. Last Thursday, he appeared in a Mesa County courtroom...
View ArticleIntermountain Health awarded grant from state
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The Opportunity Now Colorado grant program awarded Intermountain Health a $1.9 million seed grant to add more jobs to the workforce. The funding will be used for an...
View ArticleDifferential Response in Mesa County
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Mesa County Social Services works year-round to improve the lives of children who wind up in foster care. Mesa County Social Services tells WesternSlopeNow the county...
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago clears a pro-Palestinian demonstration as MIT confronts...
CHICAGO (AP) — Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses around the...
View ArticleFrom Marseille to Mont-Blanc: What to know about the journey of the Olympic...
The Olympic torch will finally enter France when it reaches the southern seaport of Marseille on Wednesday. And it's already been quite a journey. After being lit on April 16 in Ancient Olympia, the...
View ArticleIsraeli forces seize Rafah crossing in Gaza, threatening aid and putting...
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli tanks seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday as Israel brushed off urgent warnings from close allies and moved into the southern city even as cease-fire...
View ArticleThe Latest | Israeli military seizes the Gaza side of the Rafah border...
Israeli forces took control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the Gaza Strip, pressing on with an offensive in the southern city as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain precarious. The...
View ArticleCity seeks transparency from Air Service Alliance
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — In 2018, Grand Junction voters approved a 3% increase to the city's lodging tax. One third of that 3% increase funds the Air Alliance for things like marketing and...
View ArticleCassidy Hutchinson speaks at Restore the Balance's 3rd annual event
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — A local bipartisan group, Restore the Balance (RTB), is about to host a significant figure in the Jan 6. attacks on the U.S. Capitol, Cassidy Hutchinson, who is the...
View ArticleMore and faster: Electricity from clean sources reaches 30% of global total
Billions of people are using different kinds of energy each day and 2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources — ones that don't emit planet-warming pollutants like carbon dioxide...
View ArticleBoy Scouts of America changing name to more inclusive Scouting America after...
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America announced after 114 years that it will change its name and will become Scouting America in an effort to emphasize inclusion as it works to move past the...
View ArticleLimited parking downtown is strangling some local businesses
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — While a survey overseen by the City of Grand Junction showed parking downtown was only at half capacity, 2024 might be a different story. A few local businesses say both...
View ArticleTransgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to...
View ArticleMother of Australian surfers killed in Mexico gives moving tribute to sons at...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mother of two Australian surfers killed in Mexico delivered a moving tribute to her sons Tuesday at a beach in San Diego. “Our hearts are broken and the world has become a...
View ArticleWestern Hemisphere nations pledge to continue coordinating response to...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Representatives from 22 Western Hemisphere countries gathered in Guatemala renewed their commitment Tuesday to continue offering legal pathways to enter their countries, to...
View ArticleFans are following Taylor Swift to Europe after finding Eras Tour tickets...
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of ride-or-die Taylor Swift fans who missed out on her U.S. concert tour last year or didn't want to buy exorbitantly priced tickets to see her again found an out-of-the-way...
View ArticleRenovations at Maxwell Anderson Hotel in Glenwood Springs almost finished
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (KREX) — Renovations to the Maxwell Anderson Hotel, formally known as The Denver Hotel, are almost complete. Renovations to the hotel began a little over a year ago with...
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