October 1, 2020

American to furlough 19,000 as clock runs out on airlines

American Airlines will begin furloughing 19,000 employees on Thursday after lawmakers and the White House failed to agree on a broad pandemic-relief package that includes […]
October 1, 2020

Health insurance cutoffs loom

Jeremy Fritz stopped working as an assistant manager for a fitness center in Carlsbad, Calif., during the pandemic lockdown in the spring when gyms were […]
October 1, 2020

Omni opens Nordic-theme hotel in Vikings Eagan development despite pandemic challenges

A pandemic and global downturn in travel didn’t stop the opening of the new Nordic-themed Omni Viking Lakes Hotel, a key component of the NFL […]
September 30, 2020

Twin Cities homebuilders see busiest September in 15 years

Homebuilding in the Twin Cities ramped up last month, but rental apartment construction took a breather. During September homebuilders were issued 650 permits to build […]
September 30, 2020

Rival small-town Minnesota publishers battle over the revived Chatfield News

At a time when small-town newspapers are dying across the nation, two rival Minnesota publishers are fighting over one that came back to life. The […]
September 30, 2020

Omni opens Nordic-themed hotel in Vikings Eagan development despite pandemic challenges

A pandemic and global downturn in travel didn’t stop the opening of the new Nordic-themed Omni Viking Lakes Hotel, a key component of the NFL […]
September 30, 2020

Rising from the rubble, Liberty's Restaurant in Red Wing to reopen Thursday

Liberty’s Restaurant in downtown Red Wing marks its 45th anniversary in October, but the eatery has a more immediate reason to celebrate. It is reopening […]
September 30, 2020

Schafer: Why bigger companies are faring fairly well in this downturn

The strong stock market in 2020 has been one of the biggest surprises in a year full of them, and we’ve heard the explanations, from […]
September 30, 2020

Farmland prices holding steady, maybe even ticking upward in Minnesota

Despite trade wars, a pandemic and what’s still a five-year slump in corn and soybean prices, farmland in the Upper Midwest has mostly kept its […]
September 30, 2020

Getting warmer: Trump concedes human role in climate change

President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that humans bear some blame for climate change, but scientists say the president still isn’t dealing with the reality of […]