Defense Secretary Austin says the US will provide $2.3 billion more in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that the U.S. will soon announce an additional $2.3 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, to include anti-tank weapons, interceptors...
View ArticleMeet Addie! She's ready to be adopted at MCAS
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Today, Kevin Bozarth from Mesa County Animal Services (MCAS) stopped by the studio with Addie! Addie is a 2-year-old Labrador Retriever mix. Addie is a little on the...
View ArticlePressure is building on Biden to step aside. But many Democrats feel...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders describes President Joe Biden's recent debate performance as “painful.” In an interview, he says he's not confident that Biden can win this fall. But the progressive...
View ArticleJuly 4 celebrations in Western Colorado
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Independence Day celebrations are a great time to hangout with friends and family. Several city officials told WesternSlopeNow what residents in Grand Junction, Delta...
View ArticleDangerously high heat builds in California and the south-central United States
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Swaths of California sweltered Tuesday and things were only expected to get worse during the Fourth of July holiday week for parts of the United States, with nearly 90...
View ArticleSevere overcrowding, lack of exits and mud contributed to a deadly stampede...
HATHRAS, India (AP) — Severe overcrowding and a lack of exits contributed to a stampede at a religious festival in northern India, authorities said Wednesday, leaving at least 121 people dead as the...
View ArticleSettlement tracking group says Israel has made largest West Bank land seizure...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, a settlement tracking group said Wednesday, a move that could further worsen already...
View ArticleWorld UFO Day - Montrose and Grand Junction sightings
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — In the summer of 1947, a rancher 75 miles from Roswell, New Mexico found a crashed unidentified flying object. The wreckage was quickly scooped up by the Roswell Army...
View ArticleTown of Palisade lifts moratorium on new housing developments
PALISADE, Colo. (KREX) — Two years after a controversial proposed big housing development that led the Town of Palisade to delay such projects, the board of trustees ended the moratorium. The board...
View ArticleColorado dairy worker tests positive for bird flu, fourth person linked to...
A fourth farm worker has been infected with bird flu in the growing outbreak linked to dairy cows, health officials reported Wednesday. The worker had direct contact with infected dairy cows on a...
View ArticleSan Miguel County Sherrif’s Office seeking vandals
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, Colo (KREX) — The San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office is offering two separate $500 rewards regarding a pair of vandalism incidents in the county. In a Facebook post on Monday, the...
View ArticleIndia is likely undercounting heat deaths, affecting its response to...
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Months of scorching temperatures sometimes over 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in parts of India this year — its worst heat wave in over a decade — left hundreds dead or...
View ArticlePalestinian death toll from Israel-Hamas war surges past 38,000, Gaza Health...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday that the Palestinian death toll from nearly nine months of war has surged past 38,000. The ministry said that in...
View ArticleHurricane Beryl roars toward Mexico after leaving destruction in Jamaica and...
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95% of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the...
View ArticleBrazilian police indict ex-President Bolsonaro in undeclared diamonds case,...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Federal Police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds the far-right leader...
View ArticleThe history behind Fourth of July - do people know what they're celebrating?
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Thursday made for a beautiful day in Grand Junction with the roar of hot rods, hustle and bustle of people and beautiful summer skies. But behind the fireworks, behind...
View ArticleBrazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared...
SAO PAULO (AP) — The indictment of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right...
View ArticleThe Latest | Polls open in Iran runoff election to replace a president killed...
Iranians are voting in a runoff election on Friday to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country's northwest along with the foreign minister and...
View ArticleHurricane Beryl makes landfall on Mexico’s Caribbean coast near Tulum as a...
TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Beryl made landfall on Mexico’s coast near the resort of Tulum as a Category 2 storm early Friday, whipping trees and knocking out power as it came ashore after leaving...
View ArticleStarmer vows 'government of service' for national renewal as he takes power...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would lead a “government of service” on a mission of national renewal in his first official remarks Friday after his Labour Party swept to...
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