Business & Economy
Mining country in northeast Minnesota, with its strong union ties, has historically backed Democrats in huge numbers. But this year many voters turned to Donald Trump, hoping for an economic jumpstart.
The head of the company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline said Friday that it won't be rerouted but that he'd like to meet with the head of an American Indian tribe to try to ease the tribe's concerns about the project.
The president-elect tweeted that he had influenced Ford's decision, but Ford says it never planned to close the Louisville, Ky., plant or to reduce jobs there.
The government's measure of consumer prices showed supermarket food prices dropped in October for the sixth straight month. The Farm Bureau's measure of Thanksgiving meal prices dropped, too.
It's the season of giving, and for those who give too much, the season of debt. Financial expert Ruth Hayden shared her tips on how to have a happy holiday without draining your bank accounts.
Minnesota's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remains better than the 4.9 percent national rate but the state continues to lag the nation in job growth.
Insurers selling individual and family health plans in Minnesota put up some red ink in financial filings.
About 600 people signed an online petition saying the values Trump expressed during the campaign don't represent them.
Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, is proposing strict regulations designed to prevent another financial crisis by pressuring big banks to break themselves up into smaller entities.
Donald Trump may be a champion of gun rights, but it turns out, the Obama years have been good for the U.S. gun industry. In Kansas, the prospect of a Clinton win sparked some to spend big on guns.
Target breezed past Wall Street expectations for the third quarter and with the crucial holiday season fast approaching, it upped its key sales outlook for the critical period as well.
Minnesota will get more than $11 million from the German automaker as it settles claims over its cheating on emissions requirements.
Two nurses strikes over expensive benefits at five Twin Cities hospitals this year cost Allina Health well over $100 million dollars.
The engineers want more study and tribal input before deciding whether to allow the disputed Dakota Access pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.
The end of harvest means the beginning of work to implement Minnesota's new buffer law, and Minnesota farmers remain divided over the initiative.
Some health insurers allege that for-profit dialysis companies are steering patients from government health plans to commercial insurance just because it helps their bottom lines.
Economics professor Louis Johnston explores what the election of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress might mean for the economy.
AT&T's CEO, along with Ben & Jerry's and Starbucks, have waded into the rough waters of race. We ask some experts whether that makes a difference, and the answer is ... complicated.
Thursday trading centered on areas in which the new administration plans to loosen regulations or increase spending. Financials and pharmaceuticals were up, as were defense and infrastructure stocks.
For six years, the Dodd-Frank Act has been rolling out rules intended to tame inappropriate risk-taking by banks. The Trump transition team now says the new administration will "dismantle" the law.