Business and Economic News

Hope Breakfast owner feeding earthquake survivors, relief workers in Turkey
Twin Cities chef and restaurant owner Brian Ingram said he knew what he had to do when he saw the devastation from last week’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria: He bought a plane ticket and went there to help.
Mining companies finalize joint venture to pursue copper-nickel mines
PolyMet Mining and Teck American, which have worked on separate copper-nickel mining projects in northern Minnesota for more than a decade, have officially combined to form a new joint venture called NewRange Copper Nickel.
Shopify deleted 322,000 hours of meetings. Should the rest of us be jealous?
The pandemic had an unexpected side effect: peak meeting misery. With Shopify's radical announcement last month, the working world wants to know if a future without meetings is even possible.
St. Paul's historic Justus Ramsey House is coming down. Slowly.
The 171-year-old stone house at the center of a preservation battle with a St. Paul restauranteur is coming down. But in a good way, carefully, with an eye toward reconstructing it on another site.
Reports: T-Mobile users experience service outages across U.S.
Customers of wireless provider T-Mobile US Inc. reported widespread service outages in the U.S. late Monday. Posts on Downdetector.com and Product-Reviews.net indicated T-Mobile service outages in multiple areas of the country.
Inflation eased again in January – but there's a cautionary sign
Annual inflation cooled in January for the seventh month in a row. But price increases accelerated between December and January, fueled by rising shelter, food and gasoline prices.
Unions, corporations are among top Walz inaugural donors
An initial look at donors to Gov. Tim Walz’s inaugural shows several unions, a handful of corporations and local pro sports teams.