Home & Garden
Staging your home to sell: Experts share their best tips
A few well-chosen improvements go a long way toward appealing to today's buyers, and it doesn't mean spending a fortune.
Business
Sentera soaring to next level with farm drones
Richfield-based Sentera, one of several surviving makers of drones and related software for farmers, is gaining altitude.
Business
Mortgage rates dip below 4% for the first time since November
Just in time for the busiest home shopping season of the year, mortgage rates continue to fall, this week dipping below 4 percent for the first time since November, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey.
West Metro
Edina approves major 50th & France retail, housing, parking additions
Plans for more housing, retail and parking were approved by the City Council on Tuesday night.
Business
Minnesota continues to be a top state for wind power
Xcel Energy leads utilities in the energy as well.
Business
U.S. Bancorp beats forecasts with 6.3 percent jump in profit
The company's new CEO began his first full day on the job with an earnings beat.
Business
Abbott holds steady on release date for new ICD
Company expects clearance for a new defibrillator later this year despite FDA warning letter.
Minneapolis
HCMC and workers reach settlement, but lawsuit continues
Hospital agrees to several moves, but claim of employer hostility toward union still has a court date.
Business
Economist studies the importance of luck in "success"
Robert Frank lectured at the University of St. Thomas on why luck plays a bigger role than believed in economic success.
Business
Select Comfort more than doubles first-quarter earnings per share
The results handily beat analysts' expectations.
Minneapolis
Mpls. Council rejects Surdyk's deal, insists on tougher penalty
A tentative settlement with the liquor store for a looser punishment was rejected. A new, stiffer penalty will be negotiated over the next month.
Business
Medtronic selling medical products business in $6.1B deal
Ohio-based Cardinal Health picks up a variety of patient monitoring and recovery products, plus 17 manufacturing facilities
Business
Target is weighing options for Food + Future lab in Cambridge, Mass.
As company prepared to shut down initiative, offer possibly surfaced.
Business
Minnesota has seen 75 percent rise in H-1B visa requests since 2012
Mayo Clinic, U and Medtronic among top employers in state for visa fillings.
Business
UnitedHealth Group tops first-quarter estimates, raises guidance
The nation's largest health insurer saw big enrollment increases in the first quarter.
Business
Post adds British favorite Weetabix to its cereal holdings, in a $1.8 billion deal
The $1.8B deal will likely send the product to its consumer brands division in Lakeville.
Business
Tile Shop flexes its muscle amid retail shakeout as profits up 19%
As the home improvement sector flourishes, Tile Shop's profit jumped 19 percent.
Business
Whether showoff vandalism or criminal activity, hacking is becoming easier
If it seems you are hearing more about hackers, it is because vulnerabilities are increasing.
Eat & Drink
'Cake Boss' TV star brings his family's bakery to Mall of America
Coming this summer, Bartolo "Buddy" Valastro Jr. of TLC's "Cake Boss" is opening a Minnesota outpost of his Carlo's Bakery.
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