USA - Rocky Mountains

For its Economic Growth Potential ranking, Business Facilities considers state business climate, availability of skilled workforce, incentives and education climate, among other criteria.

The magazine's Best Business Climate ranking evaluates an amalgamation of key rankings results (including education, workforce training/availability, cost of labor, infrastructure, utility costs, credit rating and business tax climate).

New laws and public scrutiny are spurring a wave of relocations for some traditional industries.

In this day and age, food processing plays an essential role in enhancing our way of life by ensuring that the food produced meets consistent quality standards.

Thumbtack.com surveyed 12,632 small businesses across the United States. The survey asked questions about the friendliness of states and cities toward small businesses.

The United States finally has recovered all of the jobs we lost in the Great Recession.

Austin, TX is thinking of setting up an immigrant investor program: Fund a project, get a visa.

Memo to climate change deniers: You're gonna need a bigger boat.

Say goodbye to your free ride on the nation's physical and digital superhighways.

When Gov. Gary Herbert took office, he set a lofty goal of making Utah the top-performing state economy. Four years and thousands of jobs later, the Beehive state is poised to plant its flag at the summit.

Germany's auto giants are set to unleash billions of dollars to expand North American production.

An energy revolution is sweeping across the U.S., creating thousands of jobs and making it likely we’ll achieve the long-sought goal of energy independence by 2020 or sooner.

There may be fewer projects to aim for in the highly competitive environment of a recovering economy, but those who hope to succeed must find a way that distinguishes them from the rest of the field. Here are the organizations who have established a consistent standard of excellence and embraced the best practices to secure the projects that bring bundles of new jobs to their locations.

Like the mighty Rocky Mountains looming over everything, Utah’s business environment and quality of life are reaching for the sky.

Ready or not, legalized marijuana is shaping up to become a leading growth sector in the U.S.

New landmark building, designed by Ware Malcomb, will bring European design to the Denver suburbs.

After picking last year's winner, Jones Lang LaSalle once again turns to commercial real estate stats to help handicap the Big Game.

Expanded federal subsidies spurred a bevy of year-end wind power project announcements, including a $1.9-billion deal in Iowa.

A new era dawns as the FAA clears six drone test sites for takeoff in the U.S.

We invented the Internet, but even Romania and Moldova are blowing the doors off the U.S. in high-speed broadband.