Business and Economic News

Bird flu costs pile up as outbreak enters second year
The ongoing bird flu outbreak has cost the government roughly $661 million and added to consumers' pain at the grocery store as officials slaughtered more than 58 million birds to help limit the spread of the virus.
An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America
An NPR/Floodlight investigation found that a longtime Republican insider is stoking solar opposition by spreading bad information about health and environmental risks. Her influence is growing.
Compare the election-fraud claims Fox News aired with what its stars knew
After the 2020 election, Fox News repeatedly aired claims of election fraud even though its stars and executives said, behind the scenes, those claims were "ludicrous," "bs" and "nonsense."
Slaughterhouse cleaner admits child labor at 3 Minnesota plants, fined $1.5M
Federal authorities fined Packers Sanitation Services Inc. $1.5 million for using more than 100 children ages 13 to 17 to clean slaughterhouses in eight states. At JBS Foods in Worthington, PSSI had 22 underage workers on the overnight shift.
Investigators pinpoint, halt likely source of volatile substance found Minneapolis sewers
In the wake of a sewer explosion and evacuations on the U of M campus last summer, authorities believe they found the source of the volatile substance. And they've recently taken more steps to prevent a recurrence.
Minneapolis City Council eyeing next step toward funding sidewalk clearing
The proposal from two council members would begin as soon as 2024 and cover the entire 2,000-mile city sidewalk network by 2027. There’s a public forum Wednesday night and a meeting Thursday.
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.