business and finance

Businessman has eye on building pot empire

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, left, and Jamen Shively, CEO of Diego Pellicer, spoke during a news conference in Seattle…

June 17, 2013

Business

Potato cartel? So say grocers

accuses growers of decade-long price-fixing scheme

June 15, 2013

Business

Privacy – the online generation wants it

Mandi Grandjean, a recent graduate and an athlete at Miami University in Ohio, is OK with the government doing secret…

June 15, 2013

Business

Fine-tuning retirement plans beneficial for all

Gervais, Pauldu1-i-syn The short answer should be “very well.” As a longtime resident, business owner and certified public accountant, I…

June 15, 2013

Business

Small businesses ready to resume hiring

Cautious firms looking for signs of revenue stream

June 15, 2013

Bottom Line

Why do your bucks leave faster than they arrive?

Ronnie has lots of company. Business owners put sales on the books, pay their business bills, don’t have a lot…

June 11, 2013

Business

License to play, ticket to ride

Durango’s latest radio station took some time getting on air

June 11, 2013

Business

Sign of confidence: More Americans quit jobs

Job seekers inquire for positions at the 12th annual Mission career fair in Los Angeles. The Labor Department on Tuesday…

June 11, 2013

Business

‘TV Everywhere’ isn’t quite there yet

Cable, satellite providers slow to go mobile

June 11, 2013

Business

New prosperity?

Lakes region pins economic hopes on water

June 8, 2013

Business

Rain forces tough choices decisions in Midwest

Many corn farmers in the Midwest are running out of time to plant – or replant – their crops after…

June 8, 2013

Business

Tipsters: Agency casts wide net

The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency’s need to collect millions of phone records, but critics are calling…

June 8, 2013

Business

Home price spike highest in years

U.S. home prices soared 12.1 percent in April from a year earlier, the biggest gain since February 2006, as more…

June 4, 2013

Business

Stocks take a tumble on Fed stimulus worries

Comments from a Fed official raised expectations that the Fed could start easing off its support for the economy soon,…

June 4, 2013

Business

A kitchen for artisanal producers?

Durangoan eyes Brickhouse Cafe building for shared commercial use

June 4, 2013

Business

‘Internship’ depicts Google as paradise

Questions about behemoth trampling on privacy nowhere in film’s focus

June 4, 2013

What's Up Downtown

Friends, relatives spice Durango’s tourism recipe

This sub-segment of tourism brings revenue into our economy and takes photos, souvenirs and memories back home to their jealous…

June 4, 2013

Business

Dog food entrepreneur makes raw meat pay

Recession job loss leads Santa Fe carpenter to pet-catering business

June 4, 2013

Business

Microsoft aims for simpler Windows

Version 8.1 to be released this year

June 1, 2013

Business

Cheap leases offered to spur electric-car sales

Auto companies in the are lowering lease prices for electric cars like this Honda FIT EV as they try to…

June 1, 2013

Business

Some seek softer landing after career

Phased-retirement programs good for workers, employers

June 1, 2013

Business

Elements of recovery?

Edgemont Highlands subdivision to test market

June 1, 2013

Money Savvy

Work revolution: Turn your passion into your income

As the dynamics of the industrial economy fade into the sunset, that old path to success is fading away. Gone…

May 27, 2013

Business

Idaho spud giant bets on biotech potatoes

effort would resist bruising and be lower in natural cancer-causing toxins

May 27, 2013