All the headlines from our Colorado Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2014 // Colorado will begin a new strategy for fighting wildfires in the coming weeks by deploying aircraft designed to pinpoint the location of blazes quicker after the first smoke sighting.The goal is to identify the location of...
Aug 14 2014 // Once-teeming Lake Mead marinas are idle as a 14-year drought steadily drops water levels to historic lows. Officials from nearby Las Vegas are pushing conservation but also are drilling a new pipeline to keep drawing water...
Aug 4 2014 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired The Wright Group Services in Colorado.AssuredPartners made the acquisition through its subsidiary AssuredPartners of Colorado. The terms were not disclosed. Denver, Colo.-based The Wright...
Jul 31 2014 // The Buckner Co. has opened new Denver, Colo. office and named Keith Braxton president. As head of the Salt Lake City, Utah-based commercial insurance brokerage’s Colorado office, Braxton is charged with recruiting...
Jul 30 2014 // Coal miners took on skiers, and environmentalists dueled with business groups as the public debated sweeping rules from the Obama administration to combat global warming in a nationwide series of hearings yesterday.At the...
Jul 21 2014 // Two years after the Waldo Canyon Fire and one year after the Black Forest Fire, the most costly and devastating natural disasters in Colorado history, TWS Home Inventory and Asset Management Group LLC has seen rapid...
Jul 11 2014 // Two years after the Waldo Canyon Fire and one year after the Black Forest Fire, the most costly and devastating natural disasters in Colorado history, TWS Home Inventory and Asset Management Group LLC has seen rapid...
Jul 7 2014 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Conor Overstake as a producer in the Denver, Colo. office. Overstake will focus on business development in the technology, life science and manufacturing industries. Most recently, Overstake...
Jun 27 2014 // The share-and-share-alike attitude considered a virtue by some has the potential to create a rift between between ridesharing companies and insurance companies.“We try not to make it a battle,” said Robert...
Jun 24 2014 // A judge has denied Vail Resorts’ request to toss a lawsuit filed by the parents of a teenager who died in an avalanche while skiing in January 2012. The Vail Daily reported District Judge Chris Melonakis’...
Jun 24 2014 // Aurora, Colo. fire officials say a man has died after being pinned by 4,000 pounds of glass in two wooden crates at a window company.Capt. Diane Lord of the Aurora Fire Department said Saturday that the victim was helping...
Jun 23 2014 // The National Weather Service has reported four tornadoes have been reported in northeast Colorado, but there has been no major damage.Three twisters were reported Saturday in Adams County and one in Weld County. The agency...
Jun 21 2014 // Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is defending two ride-sharing companies that the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement has recently threatened with fines and cease-and-desist...
Jun 10 2014 // Several tornadoes touched down as a line of severe thunderstorms swept through Colorado on Sunday, with one of the twisters hitting near a junior golf tournament and injuring a caddy.Six of the tornadoes struck in...
Jun 9 2014 // Victims of a 2012 Colorado wildfire started by the state will receive about $18 million in liability payments with a bill that’s been signed into law. The legislation signed into law Friday by Gov. John Hickenlooper...
Jun 9 2014 // The Hershey Co. has sued a Colorado marijuana edibles company, claiming it makes four pot-infused candies that too closely resemble iconic products of the chocolate maker.The trademark infringement lawsuit was filed in...
Jun 9 2014 // A geophysicist from the University of Colorado is hoping to settle the question of whether a small earthquake last weekend near Greeley was caused by wastewater injection wells.The Greeley Tribune reports Friday that Anne...
Jun 5 2014 // A year after the massive Black Forest Fire stuck Colorado, insured losses are now estimated at $420.5 million, according estimates released by the to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association on Thursday.The...
Jun 2 2014 // Hail, wind and flooding in May caused an estimated $109.3 million in insured losses resulting from 28,442 auto and homeowners insurance claims filed, an insurance group reported on Monday.The damage estimates include...
May 29 2014 // Authorities are bracing for the possibility of another landslide in a remote part of western Colorado amid dangerously unstable conditions that led them to call off the search for three ranchers missing there.Mesa County...