Business and Economic News

U.S. hiring on fire in October, jobless rate falls to 5 percent
Employers added 271,000 jobs, the most since December. The job gains are likely strong enough to persuade the Federal Reserve to lift short-term interest rates at its next meeting in mid-December.
Key question in PolyMet mine fight: Whose data to trust?
State officials today release their final environmental review of the proposed copper-nickel mine. But the report may not stop the debate over whether pollutants will flow away from -- or toward -- the Boundary Waters.