Business & Agriculture

BP American Production Co. will start aerial surveys to inspect its pipelines over four counties in the Four Corners. Bill Winters, a GIS specialist with BP, wrote in an email that helicopter...

A Durango attorney has been tapped to lead the state’s top agency that regulates oil and gas at a time of sweeping change for the industry in Colorado. Earlier this year, the Colorado Legislature...

YELLOW JACKET – Sprouts from a volunteer crop of spring wheat in a field kept fallow during last year’s drought provided a reassuring sign earlier this month for Chris Neely. “Last year, the only...

As a rule, “rancid” is not a term you want associated with something you’re about to put in your mouth. But Ska Brewing Co.’s upcoming Brewstomper Golden Ale might be the exception. The beer is the...

On a scorching July afternoon in 2016, Tesla founder Elon Musk unveiled his “Gigafactory,” a massive complex outside Reno, Nevada, designed to stimulate green technology in the West. It’s now...

FARMINGTON – Officials at the Four Corners Regional Airport in northwestern New Mexico hope proposed upgrades will bring commercial airlines back – something the isolated regional has not had in...

True to the title of the presentation, “The Many Faces of Rotgutzen: The Not-So-Comic Nemesis of Independently Owned Businesses,” Dave Thibodeau, co-owner and president of Ska Brewing Co.,...

Delta Air Lines comes in first in a long-running study that ranks U.S. airlines by how often flights arrive on time and other statistical measures. Researchers who crunch the numbers also say that...

Colorado has implemented new restaurant inspection regulations that took effect Jan. 1. The Colorado Retail Food Establishment Rules and Regulations are based on a national standard for retail food...

Jeff and Tammy Coulon started aquaponic farming as a test – just for produce for the family dinner table at their farm near Ainsworth, Nebraska. It proved so successful it turned out to be key to...

A subdivision northeast of Durango has been experiencing persistent problems with landline and internet service for at least a week now, a nuisance that residents say has been “a real pain.” At...