Business

Industry luring farm workers

Siren’s song of higher wages makes for harvest with fewer hands

September 9, 2013

Business

City businesses begin seasonal transition

Downtown reports good end-of-summer sales numbers

September 9, 2013

Business

A building-block expansion

Brewing opens The Container restaurant

September 7, 2013

Business

Grand Canyon development hits snags

Developers have sought for decades to seize on the heavy traffic in the town of about 600, just outside the…

September 7, 2013

Business

Gear smartwatch may not be smart enough

Samsung’s new Galaxy Gear, a digital wristwatch that connects to Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab tablet computer or its new Galaxy…

September 7, 2013

Business

Cost of owning car also affected by where you live

A new study by the online service Bankrate.com found that Georgia is the most costly state in the country for…

September 7, 2013

Business

Chance meeting brings ex-Apple exec to Ignacio

Zalneraitisdu1-i-syn The La Plata Economic Development Alliance will bring Jay Elliot to its annual Economic Summit – “Collaborate, INNOVATE, Grow…

September 7, 2013

Business

Verizon foresees few changes to U.S. wireless business

Verizon is buying the 45 percent of its wireless business owned by British cellphone carrier Vodafone. That will let Verizon…

September 3, 2013

Business

Yellen, Summers weighed for Fed head

Fed Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers are the leading candidates to replace Ben Bernanke as…

September 3, 2013

Business

With Nokia deal, Microsoft takes a gamble

Software giant will pay $7.2 billion for phones, patents

September 3, 2013

Business

Air pollution takes toll on tourism in China

Numbers of foreign visitors have declined after January’s “Airpocalypse,” when already eye-searing levels of smog soared to new highs. Tourists…

August 31, 2013

Business

Park City ski area told to vacate

picking up fight after acquiring nearby resort operator

August 31, 2013

Business

GM says almost-driverless cars coming by 2020

The automaker says the system, called “Super Cruise,” uses radar and a camera to steer the car and keep it…

August 31, 2013

Business

Americans driving less as car culture fades

Driving in America has stalled, leading researchers to ask: Is the national love affair with the automobile over? After rising…

August 31, 2013

Business

Durango’s Polo-Ralph Lauren store to close

Property manager doesn’t comment on building’s future

August 31, 2013

Business

New leader aims to turn around Level 3

Level 3 Communications dug up roads and laid thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables across the country, betting $14 billion…

August 31, 2013

Business

Mercury joins forces with PayPal

allows Durango firm to move into smartphone payments

August 27, 2013

Business

Small-business owners: Sales trump sun, fun

on back burner when summer suddenly breaks into boom

August 27, 2013

Business

Syrian standoff sinks stocks

Traders watch as stocks declined broadly in Tuesday’s trading as investors feared that the possibility of a U.S. military intervention…

August 27, 2013

Business

Bennet addresses agricultural issues

Colo. senator says Washington politics continue to block farm-bill extension

August 27, 2013

Business

Nasdaq breakdown ups pressure for action

Trading halt points to technological vulnerabilities

August 24, 2013

Business

Soldiers to suds

veterans join craft beer biz craze

August 24, 2013

Business

Silicon Valley keenly awaits latest Lego robot kit

Will Gorman demonstrates a Track3r Lego Mindstorms robotic unit.Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press Many of them were drawn to the tech…

August 24, 2013

Business

Investors need to keep eyes on target-date funds

That’s the case with target-date retirement mutual funds, which some advocates call “set-it-and-forget-it” investments. If you began putting money in…

August 23, 2013