
Colorado’s minimum wage will increase nearly 9 percent next year as inflation cuts into pocketbooks
Colorado’s minimum wage will jump to $13.65 per hour next year — an 8.68 percent increase.

Denver home prices decline for second straight month as mortgage interest rates rise
The median price for a home in metro Denver – which includes Boulder and Broomfield – was $579,000, down 2.54 percent compared to July.

Humans are again aiming at the moon with NASA’s Artemis missions — and Colorado is at the center of it
The heat shield, the spacecraft, and some instruments for NASA’s Artemis I mission — set to launch in the coming days and which is the first step to humans returning to the moon — were all made or designed in Colorado.

Amid rising violence, bars and businesses in Denver’s LoDo neighborhood weigh new options to stop late-night crime
Some ideas include a later last call for bars or staggering close times so that not so many people are out on the street at the same time. But not everyone agrees on what should be done.

Steamboat is asking voters to tax Airbnbs to pay for affordable housing. Will it work?
Widespread worker shortages are particularly pronounced in the state’s mountain communities because the workers who keep the tourism industry humming often can’t afford to live there. Now, resort towns across Colorado are looking for creative solutions.

Pepsi to build its largest U.S. plant in Denver after city offers $1 million in incentives
As Pepsi builds the facility and adds new jobs, the city will pay the company cash in installments. The city expects to make the payments over a multiyear period until the site is completed.

Colorado businesses are pessimistic over inflation, and many of them see a recession coming
Nearly a quarter of those surveyed said a recession has already started, according to the quarterly report from the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business.

Colorado’s mountain towns are pushing hard to find summer staff, but even hiring incentives aren’t making much difference
Yoga punch cards, bike park passes and tuition reimbursement are all on the table when it comes to perks for hiring hospitality workers this summer.

Downtown Denver is showing some signs of people coming back, but office workers are still staying away
A report from the Downtown Denver Partnership finds that of all the reasons to go downtown, work remains the weakest draw as more companies settle into a hybrid work model.

Colorado fines Southwest Airlines for alleged violations of COVID-19 labor laws
Among other things, state labor officials say Southwest refused to provide COVID-19-related leave for workers either diagnosed with the illness or showing symptoms, as well as for workers that needed to take a test or care for family members, according to a citation.

Denver homebuyers looking for a slowdown are still finding roadblocks: High prices, bidding wars and higher interest rates
It’s an interesting time to be shopping for a house. Mortgage rates are up, and that could mean smaller budgets to spend. Is the two-year pandemic boom in home prices across Colorado — and the rest of the U.S. — coming to an end?

An affordable housing fight in Vail is pitting the ski resort against some residents, the town, and bighorn sheep
Vail resorts and the town are facing off over the development as the need for affordable housing grows more urgent in mountain towns across Colorado. Vail’s city council voted this week to condemn the land where a habitat for bighorn sheep sits, giving the local government the right to seize the land using eminent domain in order to conserve it as habitat for the animals.

Most people who lost homes in the Marshall Fire were underinsured, Colorado insurance regulators say
At a cost of $350 per-square-foot, 67 percent of homes are underinsured.

There’s a lot of empty office space in downtown Denver. No problem, some say, make them apartments
Denver officials acknowledge office buildings are unlikely to ever go back to the way they were prior to the pandemic, and are launching a program to transform some of those buildings into housing in an effort to breathe new life into an area of the city that feels stale.

Dialysis health company DaVita, former CEO Kent Thiry found not guilty in federal antitrust case
Last year, the government charged the Denver-based dialysis provider and Thiry with colluding with competitors to suppress competition by agreeing to not recruit each other’s executives.

There are more homes for sale in Denver, but prices are still rising. Is there relief on the horizon?
At the end of March, there were 2,221 homes for sale in the Denver market. That’s an 80 percent increase from the previous month, but supply remains historically low. Could higher interest rates and more homes for sale mean lower prices?