Springs News

Natural gas pipeline giant El Paso Corp. laid off 45 of nearly 500 employees from its western regional office in downtown Colorado Springs Tuesday as part of a companywide cost-cutting initiative designed to save $150 million in 2009 and 2010. Houston-based...

Occupancy rates at Colorado Springs hotels rose in September by 3.7 percentage points compared with a year ago, the biggest gain in occupancy rates in two years. September also marked the second straight month of year-over-year increases. The findings from...

Brothers Steve and Mike Blazer operated a Front Range electric supply company for 15 years before selling it in 1999. When they decided in January to get back into the business, they needed about $2 million to purchase inventory, a...