Business Reporter
Judith Kohler
After more than two decades of covering government, politics, energy and the environment, Judith Kohler joined The Denver Post in 2018 to focus on a new beat: business. She quickly discovered that business involves, among other things, government, politics, energy and the environment. And space ships. That part was new. Covering the country's second-largest aerospace industry has been a thrill.
Kohler started her career on a daily in western Nebraska, where being a University of Colorado-Boulder grad was rough during football season. She moved onto weeklies in the Denver area and then The Associated Press for 21 years in Colorado and Wyoming where she wrote stories on the legislatures, congressional races and returning wolves to Yellowstone and lynx to Colorado.
From growing up in the Black Hills in South Dakota to living in Colorado for many years, Kohler is sold on the West.
Featured Stories

Coors family to remake 5 blocks of downtown Golden with massive 10-year, $600M-plus project
One of the largest redevelopment projects in Golden's history is being undertaken by a family closely identified with the city.

Natural gas pipeline leak spurs landowners to assail Colorado’s “subterranean toxic spaghetti”
Their house had to be demolished and part of their farm had to be dug up after a natural gas pipeline leak, prompting them to urge state and federal regulators...

California has Silicon Valley. Could Colorado become home to “Aerospace Alley?”
It's not really a moonshot kind of goal, considering that Colorado's aerospace economy is already second only to California's. The state has 180 aerospace companies and more than 500 businesses...
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Xcel’s plans for new power generation and transmission to face regulatory scrutiny
Xcel Energy-Colorado is winning praise for the amount of renewable energy it has proposed in its clean energy plan, but is getting blowback for proposing new natural gas plants.

Colorado startup NovoHydrogen secures $20M commitment, role in DOE regional energy hub
A Colorado startup is playing a part in providing a key piece of the puzzle of fueling sectors of the economy that are hard to "decarbonize," such as shipping, steel-making...

Where thereās smoke, Xcel Energy hopes AI will help stop Colorado wildfires
Xcel is expanding its work with Pano AI, a San Francisco-based company that will install 21 camera systems by the end of the year across the utility's territory to quickly...

Whole Foods Market leases space in new industrial park near DIA for distribution center
Whole Foods Market has signed a lease for a 137,000-square-foot distribution center in the HighPoint Elevated industrial park under construction in Aurora and near Denver International Airport.

Colorado’s Sierra Space turning dream into reality with winged spacecraft set to launch in ’24
The dream of reviving winged space flight is close to reality as employees at Sierra Space put the finishing touches on its Dream Chaser craft in the company's Louisville facility.

Denver Kids takes holistic approach to helping students thrive, plan future
Denver Kids, a partnership between Denver Public Schools and the Denver Rotary Club, works to keep students on track to graduation and possibly a post-secondary education. The program, which started...

Oil, gas regulators boost KP Kauffman’s proposed $10M well cleanup bond to $133M
In a move regulators said shows they are serious about making the oil and gas industry clean up after itself, the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission rejected a company's...

CORE Electric Cooperative wins $26.4M in suit against Xcel Energy over power plant
The state's largest electric cooperative has won $26.4 million in a lawsuit against Xcel Energy-Colorado over losses it said it sustained during long outages at a coal power plant in...

Colorado designated as official tech hub for quantum industry
Colorado has been designated as an official technology and innovation hub for the quantum industry, opening up tens of millions of dollars in funding and elevating the region's profile as...

State, Pueblo offer up to $40M to entice global wind-energy company
Economic and local government leaders in Pueblo County are offering about $20 million to entice the company dubbed "Project Danish."