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The Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey asks consumers about how food and agricultural issues affect them, inflation is pushing grocery prices up almost 12% in the past year, and while many farmers are concerned that the ag economy is in trouble, other farmers and investors remain bullish on farmland.

A wildfire has just broken out at the base of Ute Mountain, about 8 miles southwest of CortezThe State of Colorado’s financial picture is continuing to…

The price of lumber has more than doubled during the pandemic. Now people are turning to extreme DIY for building projects. Instead of buying boards, they're buying their own sawmills.

Prices for a range of goods from used cars to bacon surged last month, pushing consumer inflation to 4.2% in April, the highest since September 2008.

Retail sales jumped nearly 10% in March, as shoppers, flush with $1,400 relief payments, are feeling more confident about venturing out. Weekly unemployment claims dropped to a pandemic low.

Wages rose faster for low-income workers than for any other group in 2019. The gains are partly explained by the tight labor market. But increases in minimum wages also contributed to the gains.

Utah’s largest newspaper is cutting its newsroom staff by more than a third. On Monday, the Salt Lake Tribune, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017,…

A Cortez firm is one of three companies recently awarded a contract for cultural resource work by the Bureau of Reclamation. The contract, valued at up to…

In early January, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a plan to rescind the Cole Memorandum, an Obama-era directive to federal law enforcement…

In early January, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a plan to change guidelines on enforcement of federal marijuana laws. Under the rule…