Business and Economic News

Lowry Grove mobile home park gets 3-month extension
The company that plans to redevelop the 15-acre mobile home park said Thursday it would move the closure from March until to June to allow children to finish out the school year in the St. Anthony-New Brighton district.
Trump's businesses could be tripped up by 2012 insider trading law
The STOCK Act bars presidents and members of Congress from trading securities based on the kind of insider information they routinely have access to.
Why did Andrew Carnegie give it all away?
A biographer of the industrialist disputes the idea that he wanted to atone for poor working conditions in the steel industry.
Peter Navarro, a professor who advised Trump during the campaign, has sharply criticized China's economic and military policies in books and videos.
A Minneapolis digital marketing and analytics firm is planning a multi-million dollar expansion that could create an estimated 100 new jobs within the next few years.
Massive development set for old arsenal site in Arden Hills
Ramsey County signed off on a redevelopment agreement that'll transform the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant site into a small city of sorts.
The protests at Standing Rock: Oil, water, race and treaty rights
MPR News with Tom Weber devoted Tuesday's show to exploring the dispute in North Dakota over the proposed pipeline. The show included new reporting and updates, plus thoughts and reflections from some of the key players in the story.
First Transit Inc., the parent company of the Rochester Public Transit Operator, is partnering with driverless vehicle company EasyMile.