Business Briefs

Hay prices remain high in Southwest Colorado Hay prices in Southwest Colorado remain high, but steady according to the Dec. 11 figures on current averages per region from the Col...

Rooted in Cortez

<span class="Drop cap">Aaron’s moves out of </span><span class="Drop cap">f</span><span class="Drop cap">irst store to new location on Main Street</span>

FLC faculty pitches shared governance

Fort Lewis College trustees Friday heard proposals for shared governance with faculty and a suggestion for a housing subsidy to attract and retain junior faculty members. A faculty represent...

Sandwich and sauce

Main Street’s Once Upon a Sandwich adds bar, expands seating area

Decker says goodbye to board after 10 years

The election of Fort Lewis College trustee officers Friday marked the end of an era for termed-out Peter Decker. Decker served two years for a trustee who left and then was appoin...

Business Briefs

Companies’ oil-drilling plans unchanged Two major Colorado natural gas producers who have turned their attention to drilling for oil elsewhere say they’re continuing to pursue th...

Energy companies wasting gas

Flaring means millions in lost royalties, report says

U.S. job market partying like it’s 1999

WASHINGTON – Look past the booming November job gain of 321,000 reported Friday, which is the best figure in three years in the strongest year for U.S. hiring since 1999. The job ...

Expect consumer beef price to rise

But market prices will fall in 2015, analyst says

Long-term unemployed may get help

COLORADO SPRINGS – Colorado’s unemployment rate is below the national average, but tens of thousands of residents have been unable to find a job for more than six months – an issue Gov. John...

New office

FLC shows economic influence in region

$151M impact amounts to 5% of county’s GDP