Author: Bernadette Berdychowski The Denver Gazette
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Mission led by Colorado lab ends after decade studying erosion of Mars atmosphere
Scientists at NASA and the University of Colorado Boulder have said goodbye to a spacecraft that has spent the last 11 years analyzing the atmosphere of Mars and how it became a rocky planet. The federal space agency announced Wednesday it has closed the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (or MAVEN) mission after it lost…
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Visits to Colorado’s ski resorts fell 20% below average this year, new data shows
Visits to Colorado’s ski resorts during an abysmally-dry winter were down nearly 24% compared to last year, according to new preliminary data from a statewide trade association. The state saw about 10.5 million ski visitors during the 2025/2026 season, the Colorado Ski Country USA announced Thursday. It’s down from 13.8 million visitors in the previous…
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Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington to retire
Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington, who oversaw the airport’s rapid growth during the last five years, will retire on Aug. 1, the airport announced on Wednesday. “I am honored to have served the public for so many years,” Washington said in a news release. “But this was a long-planned decision.” Washington was nominated by…
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Reservation of spots for Denver airport’s security line ending
Denver International Airport is retiring DEN Reserve. The airport posted on its website that it will shut down the security line reservation system on June 27, saying it’s “no longer necessary” as the airport’s new measures to make the Transportation Security Administration checkpoints much faster have worked. Average wait times at security checkpoints are down…
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Colorado’s technology office lays off 173 workers
The government office responsible for the technology that provides government services in Colorado is going through a major restructuring. The Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) announced it will cut 173 workers and change its organizational structure, saying the agency has not “delivered well enough” over the last few years, according to a news…
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Space startup in Colorado working its own Project Hail Mary to save NASA telescope
On the edge of the main road connecting Denver to Boulder, a space startup’s manufacturing facility in Broomfield has been racing against the clock for a once-in-a-lifetime mission. In a span of eight months, Katalyst Space Technologies has taken a napkin sketch of a concept and built a robotic spacecraft called Link to save the…
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Colorado adds 1,400 jobs in March, but state still on track for annual job losses
Colorado added 1,400 jobs to the economy in March, according to new state data. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported the state had job growth in March and kept its unemployment rate at 3.9% amid a slowing labor market, according to its monthly report released Wednesday. The U.S. unemployment rate stood at 4.3%…
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How many skiers visited Western U.S. resorts in this low snow year? The numbers aren’t great.
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This year’s ski season has been a tale of two stories: the lack of snow in the Rockies and a boon in the East. Yet, even the brighter side of this year’s winter wasn’t enough to make up the hit across the Western U.S. The U.S. saw ski visits for the 2025/2026 winter season fall…
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Colorado sees surge in new business filings, but economy still faces major risks
New business filings in Colorado grew in the first quarter of the year, despite several concerning economic trends across the state, according to a new report released Monday. There were nearly 55,000 new businesses registered in the state during the first three months of the year, up 12.3% year-over-year, the report from the University of…
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Colorado awards $26M in tax incentives to keep aerospace company in state
A technology company in the aerospace and defense industry is looking to expand and could bring 1,250 jobs to Colorado if it chooses to continue growing in the state. The Colorado Economic Development Commission approved $26 million in job growth incentive tax credits on Thursday for an unnamed company called “Project Hera.” (The commission often…