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Carestream, a global provider of medical imaging and X-ray systems, said Monday that it will close its Windsor manufacturing facility and transfer production operations elsewhere. The company said 210 of the 236 employees now employed at 2000 Howard Smith Ave. in Windsor will lose their jobs, with the remainder transferred to other locations. Layoffs are expected to start on April 26 with a group of 137 employees, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letter filed with the Colorado Department of…

Colorado has one of the most educated populations in the country, second only to Massachusetts for the share of residents holding a college degree. But the state also ranks seventh in terms of how much money people are losing to scams, according to a LendingTree analysis of fraud data from the Federal Trade Commission. The financial success of Colorado’s population because of its education is a primary reason it is a prime target for fraudsters. In the first nine months of 2023, Colorado residents filed 46,410 fraud…

Zipping around the city by personal jet pack is still just a dream, but a drone humming along to drop off groceries, prescriptions or a late-night pizza at your door could become a reality in the Denver area as soon as late spring. Drone Express, which moved its headquarters to Denver in November, is one of a handful of companies to earn a spot in the Federal Aviation Administration program focused on incorporating drones into the national airspace and authorizing their use for commercial services. Within the next few…

United Airlines officially opened a new 150,000-square-foot building at its Flight Training Center in Denver on Thursday, marking a milestone in its quest to hire 10,000 new pilots by 2030. United, the largest carrier at Denver International Airport, spent more than $145 million on the new building. The airline said the addition to the 23-acre campus in northeast Denver will allow it to conduct more than 32,000 training events annually and train up to 860 pilots daily. The training center, which United said is the largest…

Dish Network LLC, the satellite television and wireless service provider, informed the state on Tuesday that it will cut another 53 jobs, bringing the tally of workers let go since November to 718. The Douglas County-based company, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corp., also announced that Mike Kelly, the executive overseeing retail wireless strategy, has resigned and will depart at the end of the month. “We appreciate his hard work and commitment to our business. While we conduct a search for his successor, Hamid Akhavan,…

Colorado ranked sixth worst among U.S. states when it came to job creation last year, according to estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But was that weakness a statewide issue or a more localized problem? Job losses, assuming they hold following revisions due out next month, were primarily centered in metro Denver with Pueblo. Fort Collins had one of the strongest metro economies when it came to adding jobs last year, with Colorado Springs and Boulder in the top tier as well. Metro Denver suffered a 0.9%…

Buc-ee’s, with its red-capped beaver mascot, wide array of food and beverages and 116 gas pumps, will open its newest travel center March 18 in Johnstown. The doors will open to the public at 6 a.m. and a ribbon-cutting ceremony with local and state business and government leaders is scheduled at 11 a.m. The 74,000-square-foot center will be the first Buc-ee’s in Colorado and the farthest one west. The store at 5201 Nugget Road, the southwest corner of Interstate 25 and Colorado 60, will be one of the largest built by the…

An annual cryptocurrency and blockchain convention that will kick off its 2024 event Feb. 23, is suing the Denver trade show company that managed its 2023 convention. ETHDenver, which featured Gov. Jared Polis in 2022, was a success in 2023, bringing 48,000 people from 115 countries to the National Western Complex, its organizers say. But behind the scenes, a dispute arose that is still playing out in court one year later. Coast to Coast Trade Show Services, a Denver company, sued ETHDenver in December, accusing it of not…

Colorado-born Ball Aerospace has a new owner, a new name and what the company hopes will be a growing global customer base. But Dave Kaufman, president of the company now called Space & Mission Systems, said the nearly 70-year-old business is “staying put” in Colorado. BAE Systems PLC, a British arms, security and aerospace company, closed the $5.5 billion acquisition of Ball Aerospace from Ball Corp. on Friday, Feb. 16. Kaufman, previously Ball Aerospace president and a Ball Corp. senior vice president, removed a…

A local shareholder will examine the internal records of a single-branch bank in Lakewood to determine whether its chairman squandered the bank’s profits on a fleet of aircraft that he used to travel to Denver Nuggets games, where he became known as the “Red Pant Man.” In an oral ruling Feb. 6 that took more than an hour to read, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Bonnie David decided that Rob Salazar can inspect certain records of Solera Bank. “I am convinced that the (bank) board’s decision not to pay a dividend in 2020,…