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January 26, 2019 at 5:38AM

Ranking the hottest housing markets in the Twin Cities

This year's Star Tribune Hot Housing Index found that inner-ring suburbs like Crystal, Richfield and St. Anthony and a few exurbs like Otsego and Dayton fared the best.

Arctic Cat's Thief River Falls plant will make new line of Tracker ATVs

The move comes after Artic Cat parent Textron made a deal with the Great Outdoor Group, which includes boat manufacturing and outdoors stores Bass Pro and Cabela's.

Polaris expands buying assets of Larson Boat Group

The deal, which includes Larson, Larson FX, Striper and Escape brands, further solidifies Polaris' expansion into the marine industry after buying Boat Holdings LLC in July.

Shutdown hits Indian reservations harder than most places

Funding for federal programs is halted on reservations, which have a higher percentage of federal workers than most parts of the country.

UnitedHealth unit sues over exec's departure to Bezos-Buffett startup

Optum is alleging breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets in a lawsuit against a former company vice president who jumped ship to the startup, called ABC.

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