Colorado Springs-based Delta Solutions & Strategies announced today that it has been awarded a  contract to provide homeland security training to the state of Arizona. Delta representatives said this is the largest and most comprehensive of 4 recent contracts it has won in the State of Arizona supporting homeland security and emergency preparedness.     [...]

Pikes Peak United Way is seeking 62 business and community volunteers to review the organization’s $1.5 million funding for early education and safety net services. Volunteers are asked to donate about 20 hours during March and May to make pass or fail recommendations for continued funding. For more information contact Aimee Liotino at aimee@ppunitedway.org or 955-0762. Register [...]

United Healthcare has 80 Colorado Springs job openings to fill by Feb. 8. The insurance industry giant is hosting a job fair to identify candidates for customer service positions that will serve TRICARE West beneficiaries for the U.S. Department of Defense. The fair is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 28-29  at the Colorado [...]

The U.S. Green Building Council ranked Colorado third among states with the most new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certifications in 2012. Each year, the USGBC ranks the top 10 states based on the square footage per resident that’s LEED certified in a year. Colorado had 62.1 million square feet of new LEED certified [...]

A Colorado airline industry analyst projects flights, seat capacity and passenger numbers will decline in 2013. Evergreen-based Boyd Group International said issued a report today that predicts the nation’s air transportation system will  see a 1.5 to 2.0 percent drop in traffic this year. Furthermore, industry growth beyond 2013 is predicted to be slower than [...]

The Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance today named its newly elected board members, as well as its new board chairman, Mike Jorgensen, president of Red Noland Cadillac. Newly elected board members include: Jerry Forte, CEO, Colorado Springs Utilities; Amanda Mountain, executive director of the Tim Gill Center for Public Media at Rocky Mountain PBS; Leslie Thomas, president [...]

The Colorado Health Department reports that work-related deaths increased by two in 2011 for a total of 87. The tally, released today, shows transportation fatalities were among the top three causes of death with 34. Sixteen deaths resulted from violence, including nine self-inflicted deaths, and 16 deaths involved equipment.    

Colorado Springs was the biggest beneficiary of the more than $400 million in statewide military construction contracts distributed in 2012. The Denver Post reports that the projects include facilities for a helicopter unit at Fort Carson, a operations center for top-secret defense intelligence agencies at Buckley Air Force Base, National Guard and reserve centers in [...]

Home sales up heading into slow, winter season Rising sales and an available-home-supply decline caused U.S. home prices to rise in most major cities during October compared to a year ago Higher prices show the housing market is improving even as it moves into the slow winter-sales period. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller national home price [...]