Category Archives: Business News

Hiring surged in July as American employers added 943,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.4% as the U.S. economy continues to bounce back with surprising vigor from last year's coronavirus sh...

Target says it will not require its downtown Minneapolis headquarters employees to return to the office for the rest of the year, due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. Target has about 8,500 workers at it...

Drought conditions continue to persist in North Dakota and Minnesota. The National Weather Service says North Dakota is in the midst of its fourth driest year to date in the past 127 years. Over 97% o...

An oil company operating in western North Dakota that waited more than five months to report a pipeline spill that discharged more than 29 million gallons of wastewater has agreed to pay more than $35...

North Dakota agriculture officials are warning producers to monitor their livestock after the first case of anthrax was confirmed earlier this week. The disease was reported in cattle in a Kidder Coun...

Two of the largest employers in downtown Minneapolis, Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp, are pushing back their return-to-office plans this fall as COVID-19 cases continue to rise, spurred largely by the c...

Minnesota-based Essentia Health says it will require all staff members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Vaccination also will be required to enter facilities to perform ...

An ethanol producer wants to figure out if the geology is right in eastern North Dakota to store carbon emissions underground, as is planned in the western part of the state. Midwest AgEnergy is hopin...

Grand Forks will move forward with the purchase and demolition of the former Grand Forks Inn & Suites Motel. The city council - meeting as the JDA - agreed to buy the vacant building from American...

With some hesitancy the Grand Forks council voted last night (Monday) to continue discussions with a company looking to locate an ecosystem aquarium at the Grand Cities Mall. The proposed site for the...