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Gov. John Hickenlooper this week signed into law a bill to explore building passenger rail service along the Front Range and the expansion of Amtrak’s Southwest Chief route through the state’s southeastern corner. Monday’s signing sets into motion a set of 11 stakeholders to be appointed to a voting group on the newly created Southwest Chief and Front Range Passenger

Nearly four times a day in Colorado, developers, homeowners or builders hit gas pipelines while excavating or digging into the ground, sometimes with deadly consequences such as the fatal explosion in Firestone that was caused by a severed line near a home. But Colorado officials have an inadequate system for preventing pipeline excavation damages, which are responsible for about a

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge in North Carolina has tripled the award for more than 50,000 people on the Do Not Call Registry who were contacted by Dish Network, setting up a potential $60 million payout. In January, a jury decided to give $400 to each of the people on the registry, but Judge Catherine C. Eagles ruled Monday

A Westminster-based heating and cooling company for years has intentionally avoided pulling permits on hundreds of jobs it did in Denver, in part to avoid the scrutiny of city inspectors over allegedly shoddy and dangerous work, according to a lawsuit seeking to shut it down. Mile High Heating & Cooling and its owner, Kevin Dykman, 50, are accused of failing

Centura Health’s chief executive will step down Sept. 1 after leading the Centennial-based healthcare network for nine years. Gary Campbell, the longest tenured CEO in Centura’s history, will be succeeded by chief operating officer Peter Banko, officials announced Monday. “Centura Health has been truly blessed with Gary’s visionary leadership,” Centura Health board chairwoman Patricia Webb said in a statement. “His

Lake County’s only hospital, St. Vincent in Leadville, has put plans to build a new facility on hold after financial projections came up shorter than expected, indicating the small hospital has recovered from the financial brink but still needs to improve its balance sheet before a much-needed building upgrade. In 2014, the hospital announced it would be shutting down because

Mark T. OslerGary Miller, SDR Ventures. It was Friday afternoon when Bob received the call from his bank telling him that he had been turned down for his $250,000 loan request. He had purchased a second location as part of his business expansion plans and needed the bank loan to purchase inventory for his new location. Bob was devastated. Why

CARBONDALE — There’s a dream-busting chasm in liquor making that has confounded distillers for centuries. But Connie Baker and Carey Shanks have found a way to bridge that budget-breaking stretch between barreling liquor for several years of aging and finally selling bottles. The couple added luxury rooms above their distillery and tasting room, creating what could be the world’s first

Photograph by Ellen JaskolCharlie Farrell By Charlie Farrell, Special to The Denver Post As high school seniors begin to think past graduation, the dreaded cost of college looms large. According to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, student loan debt has almost tripled over the last 12 years, leaving students confused and scared about how much to borrow for college.

By Hayley Tsukayama, The Washington Post Amazon on Tuesday rolled out yet another version of the Echo – this time sporting a screen that allows users to make and take video calls. The Echo Show, as it’s called, signals that Amazon is not only pushing ahead with its goal of ruling the home, but it is also taking a major