A scaled-back plan to redevelop a dilapidated East Colfax hotel with the help of public funds moved forward on Monday, although it got a chillier reception from the Denver City Council than it did last year. In June 2022, the council voted 9-3 to support the redevelopment of the All Inn Motel at 3015 E. Colfax Ave. with tax increment financing, or […]

Federal auto safety regulators moved Tuesday toward a recall of about 52 million airbag inflaters used by a dozen major carmakers, calling the parts unsafe and susceptible to rupture. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration scheduled a public meeting on Oct. 5 on its recommendation to recall the airbags, manufactured by ARC Automotive and Delphi Automotive Systems. ARC rejected the […]

Education has long been hailed as the path to upward mobility in America. But new research points to limits of education as an economic escalator for Black workers. In the past two decades, the number of Black workers with a four-year college degree or higher has more than doubled, to 4.8 million. But the income gains are far less than […]

What to watch as Raimondo visits China Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, one of the Biden administration’s biggest Beijing hawks, kicked off her visit to China on Monday with a call to preserve a “stable economic relationship” between the two economic powers that “share over $700 billion of trade.” With relations between the countries at a critical juncture, Ms. Raimondo is […]

The first Republican debate on Wednesday night drew an audience of 12.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen, indicating robust interest despite the absence of former President Donald J. Trump, the front-runner in the race. The viewership figure, which includes totals from both Fox News (11.1 million viewers) and the Fox Business Network (1.7 million), was significantly higher than anything else […]

Late summer is prime time for Colorado produce that people look forward to for months and typically the end of the harvest for one of the state’s biggest crops: wheat. This year, though, rain, hail and pest infestations are making for a bumpier-than-usual road to market. Soaking rains held up the harvest of wheat and melons and hail pummeled the plants […]

York Space Systems, which manufactures and deploys satellites, has opened a fourth production facility in the Denver area, boosting its production capacity to about 1,000 spacecraft a year. York’s new 60,000-square-foot plant is in the Denver Tech Center, where in 2022 it moved its headquarters, which also has production capabilities. The company has two other production sites in downtown Denver. […]

Yellow, a trucking company that filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday, told a judge this week that it would fully repay the $729 million it owes the federal government by selling warehouses, trucks and other assets. But with its industry in a downturn, Yellow could struggle to get top dollar for its assets. Failure to pay back taxpayers in full […]

A legal squabble over the ownership of Denver’s Aviano Coffee and a lost real estate opportunity worth millions of dollars has its founder and investors pointing fingers at each other. The lawsuit filed on July 28 by the investors alleges that Douglas Naiman, who founded Aviano Coffee Cherry Creek North alongside his wife Saadia in 2010, spearheaded an “unlawful scheme […]

A few years ago, China cracked down on video games. Then, it imposed limits on livestreaming by children. Now China wants them to spend less time on their smartphones. The country’s internet regulator this week proposed regulations that if adopted as written would require smartphones, apps and app stores to build a “minor mode” into their products. The aim is […]