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• The NuVal Numbers testing the supermarket food scores Play Video

  November 18, 2011 6:29 PM

  Take a close look at the price tag during your next trip to the grocery store and you may notice another number. It's a nutrition tag called NuVal and, for now, you'll only find them at King Soopers. The score is a single number between 1 and 100 that... more »

• Tonight at 6 & 10 breaking down the NuVal numbers

  November 18, 2011 4:30 PM

  Take a close look at the price tag during your next trip to the grocery store and you may notice another number. It's a nutrition tag called NuVal and, for now, you'll only find them at King Soopers . The system uses the information provided on the package's Nutrition... more »

• City busses to give kids summer discount

  June 1, 2011 6:03 PM

  Mountain Metropolitan Transit, the bus service for the City of Colorado Springs, is offering summer discounts to children age 6 to 18 in the community. As part of the Summer Haul Pass program, local kids can ride any bus all summer long for just $20. The "haul pass" comes... more »

• End of an era at King Soopers Stores announced

  January 7, 2011 1:25 PM

  NewsFirst5 has talked with Kelli McGannon, Director of Public Affairs for King Soopers Stores, who stated that out of the 140 stores in Colorado only 114 of them had the film and digital printing services in their stores. McGannon said, "Due to the lack of demand and the rise of... more »

• Woodmen/Academy Interchange Project Reaches Halfway Point

  September 7, 2010 7:09 PM

  A collosal construction project to create an overpass at Woodmen Road and North Academy Boulevard in Colorado Springs is on-schedule and on-budget as it reaches the halfway point this month, according to project leaders. The project began in September 2009 and is scheduled to conclude in September 2011. The... more »

• Check the pantry: tuna recall

  July 1, 2010 8:48 PM

  Tri-Union Seafoods recalls approximately 1100 cans of Chicken of the Sea brand white tuna in 12-ounce cans. Shipments were made to Colorado, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Utah, Pennsylvania, New York, Maine, Indiana, California and Oregon. Rebecca Howe, a spokeswoman working for a California-based PR firm representing Tri-Union Seafoods, says that one... more »

• Salmonella fears prompt onion soup, mix recall

  March 1, 2010 12:51 PM

  King Soopers is recalling two onion soup and dip mixes because of possible salmonella contamination. The grocer said an ingredient in its Kroger Onion Soup & Dip Mix and Kroger Beefy Onion Soup & Dip Mix may have been contaminated with the bacteria. The mixes were sold in... more »

• Union grocery workers voting on new pact

  February 5, 2010 8:27 AM

  Colorado Springs and Fountain unionized grocery workers for Safeway and King Soopers will vote on a four-year contract proposal Friday. Pueblo workers will vote on Monday. The deal has already been approved by workers in the Denver metro area. Most King Soopers workers voted last year to accept... more »

• An organic shopping experience Play Video

  January 10, 2010 11:07 PM

  The availability of organic food is growing. From small health food stores to local co-ops to supermarkets to organic produce shipped to your door. For our purposes, we tried to keep it simple: a co-op in Pueblo, a mainstream grocery store (King Soopers), and two other chains that carry... more »

• 33,000 Pueblo County residents vaccinated against H1N1

  December 17, 2009 1:41 PM

  Pueblo County has already vaccinated more than 33,000 residents against the H1N1 swine flu. The vaccines were given at mass vaccination clinics, doctors offices and pharmacies. "We are pleased with the number of people who have been vaccinated," stated Dr. Christine Nevin-Woods, Executive Director at the Pueblo City-County Health... more »

• Union counts votes on Colorado grocery contract

  December 15, 2009 9:22 AM

  A union representing thousands of Colorado grocery workers is counting members' votes on the last, best, final contract offers from three chains. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 represents about 17,000 workers at Safeway, Albertsons and Kroger Co.'s King Soopers and City Market chains. Union members have been mailing... more »

• Grocery union voting to get underway--again

  November 25, 2009 4:50 PM

  After six months of negotiations, unionized Colorado grocery workers at Safeway and Kroger Co.'s King Soopers and City Market chains are going to start voting on the companies' last, best and final contract offers. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 says ballots are being mailed starting Friday, and... more »

• Grocery chains hand down "final" offer Play Video

  November 17, 2009 2:27 AM

  Months of negotiating from King Soopers, Safeway and their employees came to a head on Monday night. As promised, the grocery chains handed their employees the last, best and final contract offer. Both the grocery stores and the employees have argued over pensions, pay raises and promotions as the main... more »

• Grocery workers to get final contract offer

  November 16, 2009 2:10 AM

  It looks as if the on-going dispute between Colorado grocery stores and their workers may be coming to a head. On Friday, Kroger, King Sooper's parent company and Safeway informed grocery workers they would offer up their last, best and final contract offer on Monday. "We do not have any... more »

• King Soopers says it could lock out workers

  October 23, 2009 1:04 PM

  King Soopers is warning its employees they could be locked out if workers at Safeway decide to strike. King Soopers told employees Thursday that a lockout would be necessary to protect its business. Workers at both stores are represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 but only... more »