Business
June 20, 2020
Bob Biesterfeld, chief executive of Eden Prairie-based C.H. Robinson.

C.H. Robinson helps Minnesota to save $1M on PPE

C.H. Robinson, other Minn. firms boost PPE supply.
Business
June 20, 2020
An elderly resident visited with relatives via microphone at a nursing home on the island of Funen, Denmark. Denmark, the best-performing stock market

Stocks healthier in countries with better pandemic response

Business
June 20, 2020
Kara Soule, chief executive of Minneapolis-based Verdant, a maker of CBD products, with her brothers and partners in the business, Travis, left, and K

For Minneapolis CBD products maker, a pivotal change in strategy happened at pivotal time

Kara, Kirk and Travis Soulepivotal changed strategy to focus on ultralow prices and direct distribution from their website.
Business
June 20, 2020
Two X-ray images show a patient's diseased lungs. Using an artificial intelligence program developed by UC San Diego Health system, the image on the r

The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is growing rapidly

Business
June 20, 2020

'It' is one little word that can punch above its weight

Business
June 20, 2020
Piggy bank with bulls eye target and red arrows standing on blue background. Horizontal composition with copy space. Great use for financial concepts.

Hit the right spot with a target-date investment

Business
June 20, 2020
Currency traders in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, June 19, 2020.

You can have fun in the stock market, but keep sums small

Business
June 20, 2020
The Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif.

Get your finances ready to refinance student loans

Refinancing rewards great credit and healthy personal finances.
Business
June 20, 2020
Funeral homes must give a detailed price list to anyone who requests one in person, but they aren't required to post prices on their websites.

Should funeral homes be required to post prices online?

Business
June 20, 2020
Calhoun Square in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis will be renamed. (CARLOS GONZALEZ/Star Tribune)

Uptown's Calhoun Square will be renamed to disavow 'known racist'

Northpond Partners has removed the slave owner's name from its Uptown retail center.
Business
June 20, 2020
Charlie Whitaker has been appointed CEO of Taylor Corporation, where he has been an executive since 2012.

Glen Taylor appoints insider as next CEO at Taylor Corp.

Printing-industry veteran Charlie Whitaker will lead communications giant.
Business
June 19, 2020
A conveyor belt snakes its way more than 2.6 miles through Digi-Key's warehouse in Thief River Falls, shown here in February 2018. (Star Tribune photo

Digi-Key contractor ordered to pay construction workers $315,000 in back wages

State regulators determined that an Iowa concrete company under-compensated 70 workers.
Local
June 19, 2020
High efficiency modern AC-heater unit on brick wall background

Protections against utility disconnections extended through end of Minnesota emergency order

Waiving of fees, disconnections will last through Gov. Walz's coronavirus emergency order.
Business
June 19, 2020
The charitable trust that controls a majority of the Bremer Bank's shares argues that a sale would provide more money to fulfill its philanthropic mis

What is Bremer Financial worth? Well, it's complicated

Business
June 19, 2020
Power lines in Apple Valley.

Minnesota regulators approve 4.25% rate increase for Dakota Electric

It is less than the cooperative sought, its first since 2015.
Business
June 19, 2020
Kristin Hodnefield, left, jokingly expressed her frustration with the home-buying process with her Realtor, Emily Green, while looking at a home in so

Buyers facing even tighter Twin Cities housing market: 'It's a dogfight out there'

Fewer houses are hitting the market and prices are drifting upward despite a grim economy.
Local
June 18, 2020
Medtronic operational headquarters in Fridley, Minn. (Minneapolis Star Tribune file photo/TNS) ORG XMIT: 1576659 ORG XMIT: MIN2002180953452213 ORG XMI

Medtronic, Foxconn to start building ventilators in Wisconsin

The machines are used in intensive care for COVID-19 patients.
Local
June 18, 2020

DNR: No impact study needed for potato irrigation project in Minnesota's Pineland Sands area

The project still requires water appropriation permits from the DNR, which could include some limits on nitrogen fertilizer and pesticide use.
Duluth
June 18, 2020

Iron Range companies extend mine closures, layoffs as pandemic disruption continues

Hibbing Taconite could resume full production in August.

Business

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