Business
February 1, 2023
C.H. Robinson missed analysts’ expectations for the fourth quarter.

Eden Prairie's C.H. Robinson prepares for what could be a tough year

Slowing economic growth drags down fourth quarter results.
Business
February 1, 2023

As homebuyers flock to suburbs, Lake Elmo becomes hottest market in Twin Cities area

Business
February 1, 2023
Summit Academy, which offers GED and job training classes, is adding a pilot program in food manufacturing.

New job training program at Summit Academy addresses labor shortage in food manufacturing

The program, aimed at exposing more students to the food industry, starts this month.
Business
February 1, 2023
Bright Health lays off another 68 employees at Bloomington headquarters

Bright Health lays off another 68 employees at Bloomington headquarters

The Bloomington-based company is enacting a series of layoffs, reflecting its severe retreat from its core mission of selling individual and family health insurance.
Business
February 1, 2023
Alok Gupta of the Carlson School says companies and employees need to think about how — not whether — AI will interact with jobs.

U researchers say AI can advance business, but not without humans

Organizations should be asking how people can work together with AI, not be replaced by machine learning, they say.
Business
February 1, 2023
CEO Barry McCarthy, at the opening of the company’s downtown headquarters, of Deluxe, which announced its exit from the web hosting sector.

Minneapolis' Deluxe sells web-hosting business as it continues shift to payment services

Deluxe is selling some small-business services companies to concentrate on electronic payments and data services.
Business
February 1, 2023

Boston Scientific sees sales uptick with strong demand for Watchman device

Company recently completed expansion of Maple Grove manufacturing facility
Business
February 1, 2023
Sanford Health headquarters in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Medical students, Grand Rapids residents split on Sanford-Fairview merger

U medical students voiced concerns about access to abortion and other medical services; residents said Grand Rapids needs benefits like those Sanford Health brought to Bemidji.
Business
February 1, 2023
George Friedman, founder of Geopolitical Futures

Ramstad: The role of rage in American reinvention

Reinvention enrages people but is useful for driving the U.S. economy forward, says geopolitical forecaster and author George Friedman.
Local
January 31, 2023

Hennepin County Board committee approves $2 million to clean up contaminated sites

The effort improves economic viability and disparity reduction of projects.
Business
January 31, 2023
Allete wants to be a big partner in a planned multi-state electrical grid.

Minnesota Power's parent company investing $875M in multistate power line

The $2.5 billion project that will run from North Dakota to Montana has Duluth-based Allete as one of the biggest investors.
Business
January 31, 2023
Rental apartments, like the Exchange Apartments in New Brighton, outpaced single-family homes during the first month of the year.

Homebuilding in the Twin Cities off to a slow start during the first month of 2023

Builders started the year in conservative mode as they wait for more clues about what the spring market may hold.
Local
January 31, 2023

John Warren Johnson, Republican nominee for governor and modernizer of debt collection, dies at 93

Johnson was a Minneapolis politician who lost to former Gov. Wendell Anderson in Minnesota's 1974 race for governor.
Politics
January 31, 2023
The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C. The study’s findings document discrimination in the computer algorithms the agency uses to

Black Americans are much more likely to face tax audits, study finds

A new report documents systemic discrimination in how the IRS selects taxpayers to be audited, with implications for a debate on the agency's funding.
Business
January 31, 2023
OK Go the band and Lakeville-based Post Consumer Bands are battling over a trademark for Post’s new cereal line, OK GO!

Post Consumer Brands in trademark battle with band OK Go over new cereal name

New Post cereal line OK GO! is the subject of a trademark dispute.
Business
January 31, 2023

Polaris rides to success in fourth quarter but 2023 outlook includes bumps

Improving supply chains helped inventory levels but the powersports company expects slower growth in 2023.
Local
January 30, 2023
A 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle, as it charges at a Ford dealership in Pennsylvania.

Minnesota auto dealers lose court fight with state pollution regulators over 'clean car' rule

Industry group likely to ask state Supreme Court to hear the case.
Local
January 30, 2023
Nurses with the Minnesota Nurses Association joined with medical students from the University of Minnesota and other labor organizations on Monday to

Minnesota lawmakers weigh further review of Fairview-Sanford merger

At least three bills threaten to slow or block the merger, especially if it involves the University of Minnesota's teaching hospital.
Business
January 30, 2023
Amazon is shutting down its sorting center in Shakopee.

Amazon closing Shakopee sorting center, impacting 680 jobs

Every employee who works there will be offered a transfer to one of Amazon's other facilities in the Twin Cities region, the company said.
Business
January 30, 2023
This Jan. 18, 2011, file photo shows the Honeywell Specialty Materials plant in Metropolis, Ill.

Honeywell and union strike deal, averting lockout at Twin Cities plants

The Minnesota workers represented by Teamsters Local 1145 ratified new contract in a vote Sunday.

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