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Take3: All aboard the Winter Park Express (Video)
DBJ's Cathy Proctor and photographer Kathleen Lavine take viewers on a ride aboard Amtrak's new Winter Park Express to the ski resort. They visit with the train manager, the lead resort host and...
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Newmont Mining to explore for gold in Canada's Yukon Territory
Global gold-miner Newmont Mining Corp. said Monday that it has secured rights to explore and develop gold in a “highly prospective” area of northwest Canada’s Yukon Territory. Greenwood Village-based...
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Amtrak’s Winter Park Express is family fun, 'better than driving' (Video)
The sky was dark and Denver’s streets were quiet at 6:15 a.m. one Saturday in early February as I pulled into a parking garage across the street from Denver Union Station. Inside the station, though,...
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Oil and gas giant expects to spend $840 million in Colorado this year
Anadarko Petroleum Corp., one of Colorado’s biggest oil and gas companies, on Tuesday said it would pour about $840 million this year into its operations in the state’s Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin,...
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Colorado bill aims to allow driverless vehicles in state
Colorado could draw more interest from the automotive technology industry under a bill proposed this week that would allow driverless vehicles to be tested and used on the state’s roads. Driverless...
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Thought Leader: Gary DeFrange is retiring after 20 years of running Winter...
Gary DeFrange, the president of Winter Park Resort for 20 years, didn’t grow up schussing down the slopes, but you wouldn’t know that from his devotion to skiing. And he calls his retirement on March...
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Trump's impact on Colorado energy? Hickenlooper, Hancock, Petroleum Institute...
The change in presidential administrations from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, and the stark differences in priorities between the two, will slow down progress on the thorny issues surrounding oil and...
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Utah, Colorado take their fight outside
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert are close, and they’ve shared strategies on everything from transportation infrastructure to economic development. So when Herbert told...
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Colorado vs. Utah in a battle for business
In early November, before a crowd of 600 people at a transportation summit, Shailen Bhatt, executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, delivered a stark warning about another...
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JBS USA to bring home the bacon via $230M deal
JBS USA said Monday it’s reached an agreement to buy Danish Crown A/S’s U.S.-based bacon, ham and deli meat business, called Plumrose USA, for $230 million. The deal is expected to close during the...
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NREL chief: Renewable energy needs a new story to tell
Supporters of renewable energy need to talk about more than how solar and wind power can combat climate change if the sector is to attract a wider base of support, the director of the National...
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'Cautious optimism' about energy: 5 questions with American Petroleum...
Jack Gerard — president of the American Petroleum Institute, the Washington, D.C.-based national trade group for the oil and gas industry — was in Denver March 9 to speak on a panel at a luncheon that...
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Trump’s budget proposal has mixed impact in Colorado
President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal released Thursday — what amounts to an opening bid for how the administration believes the federal government should spend tax money beginning in 2018 —...
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Oil and gas executives at Anadarko, Whiting take new positions
Two long-time government relations experts in Colorado’s oil and gas sector have moved along to new positions. Chris Castilian, who for nine years worked on government relations for Anadarko Petroleum...
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Non-airline revenue soars at DIA
Denver International Airport wants passengers to open their wallets at its restaurants, shops and parking lots. And feel good about it. That’s the main job of Patrick Heck, DIA’s chief commercial...
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Q&A: Solar Energy Industries Association chief on solar power's bright future
In January, Abigail Ross Hopper was appointed president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), a national trade group for the solar power industry. She also was a moderator for...
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Xcel Energy to invest billions in new wind farms in Colorado, elsewhere
Xcel Energy Inc. is making a multibillion-dollar investment in wind power across seven states, from Minnesota to New Mexico — and using Colorado-made turbines from Vestas Wind Systems for a large chunk...
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Winter Park Express ski train's success may mean changes next year (Video)
The inaugural season of the Winter Park Express weekend train service will end Sunday, but executives from the ski resort and Amtrak on Wednesday were already discussing what next year’s season might...
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Bill allowing driverless vehicles passes Colorado Senate
The Colorado Senate has approved a bill that would allow driverless cars to be tested in the state, but concerns have been raised about whether the streamlined legislation is too stripped down. The...
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Cool Planet: There’s money to be made in the dirt
Dirt isn’t just dirt to Cool Planet, a Greenwood Village startup that’s raised nearly $30 million in the last 18 months and is poised to start work on a new manufacturing plant in Louisiana. At Cool...
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