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The final environmental impact statement of the so-called "Line 3" project does not issue a final decision on whether the pipeline can be built.
MN jobless rate steady at 3.7 percent in July; 7,700 jobs added
Minnesota has added 66,701 jobs in the past 12 months, an increase of 2.3 percent, outpacing the national jobs growth rate in that time, state officials said Thursday.
In January, the floor wage for large employers will rise 15 cents to $9.65 per hour; small employers' minimum wage will run $7.87 an hour, the State Labor and Industry Department says.
The tax breaks up for a vote Thursday would be the largest in state history and the biggest to a foreign company in the U.S. The electronics giant is looking to build a massive display panel factory in the state.
Trump increasingly isolated as business panels dismantled
CEOs had been tendering their resignations from White House panels after the president lay blame for the violence at a white supremacist rally on "both sides."
Duluth's aviation industry is soaring
A new report from the Duluth International Airport shows the number of aviation-related jobs in the Duluth region grew by 39 percent over the past decade.
Trump ends manufacturing panel after 3M CEO exits
Shortly after Inge Thulin and Campbell Soup CEO Denise Morrison announced Wednesday they were following other prominent executives and leaving the president's Manufacturing Advisory Council, Trump said he was disbanding the panel.
They got hurt at work -- then they got deported
A joint investigation by NPR and ProPublica shows how a loophole in Florida law has led to the arrest and even deportation of undocumented immigrants after they suffer legitimate injuries on the job.
Target says turnaround efforts are bringing shoppers back
Target reported a dip in second-quarter profit, but it was better than anticipated and a 32 percent spike in digital sales gains drove revenue higher.
UnitedHealth CEO to step down after run of more than decade
The company said David Wichmann will take over Sept. 1, and Stephen Hemsley will become executive chairman of the board. Current Chairman Richard Burke will become lead independent director.