Exxon once hoped to bring nearly 2 million people to Battlement Mesa?! I want to say something quippy, but I'm too shocked and tired. Here's a story about the folks who want to sell off Colorado's public lands. coloradosun.com/2025/06/29/col…

Video cannot capture how wild the rain is right now in Grand Junction.

What does Grand Junction's impending LDS temple mean to you? I would especially love to talk to current and former members of the faith for a story for Colorado Public Radio. Please feel free to share. Thank you! [email protected]

Find updates on the fire at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park nps.gov/blca/learn/new… Updates to follow on InciWeb inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-infor…

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is still closed by a wildfire. The South Rim fire has grown to more than 1,600 acres. To the west, residents in Escalante Canyon could be forced to flee another fire. To the east, yet another fire is burning near Cimarron. Very scary.

We made it to Friday, y’all!

Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer NPR's ⁦Chiara Eisner 🎤⁩ with the exclusive npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-…

The state is on a mission to remove invasive fish, but what happens to all the dead fish? cpr.org/2025/09/08/wha… via Stina Sieg

Two small kids + 10 hours on a plane = the most intense travel day of my life. BUT we’re all in Italy now, where I’ll report on 10th Mountain descendants retracing the steps of their fathers and grandfathers, 80 years after the Colorado-trained soldiers helped win WWII.

Descendants of the 10th Mountain Division are in Italy, retracing their loved ones’ footsteps during WWII. Below, they’re singing the U.S. national anthem at the Florence American Cemetery before honoring each veteran, saying his name, followed by “presente!” Italian for present

Scott Leach, whose father fought in WWII, took part in Grand Junction’s large No Kings protest, which also included plenty of people dressed as inflatable chickens and dinosaurs — and at least one handmaid doing the Cupid Shuffle.

Descendants of 10th Mountain Division reflect on WWII, fear America is moving towards fascism cpr.org/2025/10/28/10t… via Stina Sieg

Conservative-leaning Mesa County ousted two of three school board members who ran as a conservative block in 2021. Vicki Woods and Kaci Cole will join Andrea Haitz, the sole incumbent reelected in D51. In the past, running on a political platform for this board wasn’t done