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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Federal bill proposes investing $50M a year in outdoor recreation
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and fellow Democrats have introduced legislation that would invest $50 million annually in outdoor recreation infrastructure, planning and business development. Federal data show that outdoor recreation...

Chevron tells state it plans layoffs as part of purchase of Denver’s PDC Energy
Chevron Corp. expects to terminate at least one-third of the positions at PDC's offices in Denver and Evans.

Colorado oil, gas commission rebrands as it broadens scope to oversee other energy sectors
The agency that regulates oil and gas in Colorado has a new name and new duties, which include building a regulatory framework for the growing geothermal energy sector that is...

Aerospace company Boecore chooses Colorado over Utah, Alabama for expansion
Boecore, an aerospace and defense engineering company, has chosen to expand its operations in Colorado Springs and is expected to create 620 new jobs.

Company focused on space security opens satellite plant in Centennial
A company focused on providing security for space operations crucial to the nation's economy and defense has opened a manufacturing plant in Centennial. True Anomaly Inc. recently started operations at...

Xcel Energy customers’ electric rates to increase starting Sept. 1
Electric rates will go up for Xcel Energy customers starting Sept. 1 following state regulators' approval of a roughly $97 million increase in revenue for the utility. The new rates...

Colorado-based Ball Corp. to sell renowned aerospace business to British company for $5.6 billion
Ball Corp., based in Colorado and a global producer of aluminum packaging for beverages, has agreed to sell its aerospace business to BAE Systems, a British arms, security and aerospace...

First it was drought. Now rain, hail and worms are impacting Colorado’s biggest crops
Late summer is prime time for Colorado produce that people look forward to for months and typically the end of the harvest for one of the state's biggest crops: wheat....

Denver satellite company adds fourth production facility in metro area
York Space Systems, which manufactures and deploys satellites, has opened a fourth production facility in the Denver area, boosting its production capacity to about 1,000 spacecraft a year.

Nearly 900,000-square-foot industrial park planned just north of Denver
Hines, a global real estate investment and development firm, is building the 868,360-square-foot project in unincorporated Adams County, west of Interstate 25 on 56th Avenue.