A disgraced Denver developer who was twice convicted of stealing from clients has been charged with doing it again - while still on probation for his previous crimes. A Denver grand jury indicted Erik Osborn, 52, and Joseph O'Rourke, 60, on 22 felony theft and organized crime charges in connection with two construction companies they owned and operated between 2015 and 2019, according to a ... Read More

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Tommy Fisher’s ambitious plan to win a border wall contract included what could be the next best thing to making a pitch directly to President Donald Trump himself — talking to him through his favorite cable TV channel, Fox News. And it just may have worked. Fisher’s North Dakota-based firm was awarded a $400 million contract this week to build 31 miles of wall in Arizona ... Read More

A Colorado construction company will pay $42,500 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination suit brought by a federal agency, according to a news release. Gollnick Construction Inc., which does business as Colorado Excavating, was sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) after a worker was fired by the company just four days after suffering a seizure ... Read More

A wet winter in 2018 and at the start of this year put Gunnison River Basin-area reservoirs in good shape, but water managers remain cautious in the face of drier conditions that have again returned the area to drought status. "Blue Mesa (Reservoir) still has a lot of water in it. Everybody is doing pretty well for carryover storage," Erik Knight, a hydrologist for the Bureau of Reclamation, ... Read More

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Top U.S. House Democrats have called for a federal review of the Keystone pipeline and the agency that regulates it in the wake of 383,000-gallon (1.4-million-liter) spill in northeastern North Dakota, the latest of three spills along the line in as many years. In a letter Monday to the Government Accountability Office, the congressmen said the spills raise “serious ... Read More

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A crude oil spill from the Keystone pipeline in eastern North Dakota has turned out to have affected almost 10 times the amount of land as first reported, a state regulator said Monday. North Dakota environmental scientist Bill Suess said the leak reported on Oct. 29 is now estimated by state regulators to have affected about 209,100 square feet (19,426 square meters) of ... Read More

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Canadian crude oil is once again moving through a pipeline nearly two weeks after the line leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) of oil in North Dakota. Calgary, Alberta-based TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, said in a statement that the Keystone pipeline "returned to service" Sunday after approval of a repair and restart plan by the U.S. ... Read More