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November 09, 2026 // Franchising.com // FORT COLLINS, Colo.– Swig has signed a multi-unit franchise agreement with experienced franchisees Marc and Zach Rogers to bring the brand to Northern Colorado. The 10-unit deal will accelerate Swig’s growth in the West region and introduce its highly customizable drink experience to new communities, including Fort Collins, Loveland, and Greeley. The father-and-son duo plan to open their first location by June 2027, further advancing Swig’s nationwide franchise growth.
Farmers in Colorado's Arkansas River Valley say the water flowing to growing communities like Aurora and Colorado Springs is coming at their expense, and they've released a new tool they say reveals the impact on their region.
Households that struggle with winter fuel bills in Iowa and New Jersey can apply for state heating aid well into spring, and Alaska, Maine, Colorado and Wyoming have windows open as well. Iowa takes applications through April 30, 2027, and New Jersey through June 30, 2027. Each of the six states sets its own income […] The post Heating aid is open into spring in Alaska, Maine, Colorado, Wyoming, Iowa and New Jersey for households that qualify appeared first on The Money Overview .
The Montana Public Service Commission approved the $15.4 billion NorthWestern Energy and Black Hills Corp. merger on Tuesday. The new company, once merged, will serve 2.1 million electric and natural gas customers in Montana, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming. In a split vote, the PSC supported...
More than 60 Colorado makers, artists, and vintage curators share one roof at this shop. The racks change daily, so the jacket you skipped on Tuesday could vanish by Wednesday. The whole place started because a vendor waitlist grew too long to ignore. The owners solved it by opening an...
Gov.-elect Phil Weiser has nominated Alamosa rancher and state Sen. Cleave Simpson to lead the Colorado Department of Agriculture. Simpson, a fourth-generation farmer with extensive water-policy experience, would bring both agricultural and regional water-management credentials to the job. The selection is Weiser’s first cabinet pick since winning the election.
Weiser, set to be sworn in as governor in January, said in a statement that Progress “knew these claims and advertisements were false.”
A new Colorado nonprofit is looking to bring distributed solar to households that have traditionally been left out of the residential solar market. Solar Access Colorado, which bills itself as the state’s first organization dedicated to plug-in and balcony solar systems, has launched with pre-orders for small-scale solar kits ahead of the implementation of Colorado House Bill 26-1007, also known as the Improve Customer Use of Distributed Resources bill. The legislation establishes consumer protections for qualifying portable-scale solar devices, including provisions intended to make adoption easier for renters and homeowners living in communities governed by homeowners associations.
Health insurance shoppers in New York and Colorado are being told to choose 2027 plans by Dec. 15 if they want coverage to start Jan. 1. Oscar Health has left New York’s marketplace, affecting 4,800 people, and Cigna is dropping all of its individual plans in Colorado. In Oklahoma, Mending Health ends its marketplace plans […]
Living in Colorado is more expensive than ever
It has been a rough year for pot pioneer and CU Regent Wanda James. This spring, she shuttered her famed dispensary, Simply Pure Colorado LLC — the source of her national brand as the first Black-owned legal pot shop owner. James dissolved the company on April 21. She’d received a $150,000 loan in 2023 from […]
Meanwhile, voters approved statewide and regional tax hikes
The CEO of a bankrupt rural broadband provider took the witness stand under oath for the first time in October, defending his company's finances as it fights over a provisional $103 million federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) award. David Lindauer, who leads Maverix Broadband, testified on October 30 that he believes the company has been operationally profitable pretty much every year it has operated, even as it moved through bankruptcy proceedings the same day.
Colorado woolgrowers can access financial and technical assistance through the Wool Quality Improvement Program to improve wool quality, strengthen shearing practices and implement on-farm conservation practices. Producers can learn more and apply online at ncat.org/sustainable-agriculture/wool-quality-improvement-program. Applications will be reviewed Dec. 1 and the program is funded through March 31, 2028.
Posted November 9, 2026 at 5:51 pm ET. Kayleen Fulton, who ran Ethereum's core developer calls, sued the Ethereum Foundation in federal court. She says she was fired 13 days after telling leadership about her cancer diagnosis. Vitalik Buterin is named personally as a defendant, and the foundation has not...
A national organization said Colorado’s decision to pass a graduated income tax structure — which translates to a tax hike for businesses and residents earning $500,000 or more — means tough choices ahead for small businesses. In a statement, the National Federation of Independent Business called the passage of Amendment 87 “disappointing for Colorado’s small business owners […]
The Colorado Energy Office has asked the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to broaden the rules regarding who can challenge a city or county decision that blocks a power project. The office filed a petition Sept. 4 asking the commission to declare that municipal utilities and electric cooperatives can file the appeals. It also wants the […]
Colorado Governor Jared Polis toured the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation on Monday as a 15,000 sq. ft. expansion is underway.
