May 22, 2021

Leaving home: West Virginia population drop is largest in US

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After her company told employees in 2017 to start working remotely, customer service representative Haley Miller decided to break from her lifelong […]
May 22, 2021

Virgin Galactic rocket ship ascends from New Mexico

SANTA FE, N.M. — Virgin Galactic on Saturday made its first rocket-powered flight from New Mexico to the fringe of space in a manned shuttle, […]
May 22, 2021

Who's behind the global surge in single-use plastic?

The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen as one of the world’s biggest environmental hazards. It […]
May 22, 2021

Duluth considers aid to help redevelop Historic Old Central High School

The components of the proposed aid include: $2.94 million in tax-increment financing. $8.9 million in state historic tax credits. $6.63 million in federal historic tax […]
May 22, 2021

'You can feel the tension': A windfall for minority farmers divides rural America

LaGRANGE, Mo. — Shade Lewis had just come in from feeding his cows one sunny spring afternoon when he opened a letter that could change […]
May 22, 2021

Mayo's new research lab promises 'medicine of the future'

Plans were already in the works for a new research laboratory on the Mayo Clinic’s Rochester campus when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Then the experience […]
May 22, 2021

For Minnesota's biggest companies, share buybacks signal recovery from downturn

When the COVID-19 health crisis hit last spring, Best Buy Co. quickly borrowed $1.25 billion on an untapped credit line, even though it already had […]
May 22, 2021

Pandemic's effect not even across Minnesota companies

Thomas Oide joined the Star Tribune following his internship there in summer 2019. Before moving to Minneapolis, he studied journalism and computer science at the […]
May 22, 2021

Minnesota's top 50 public companies ranked by revenue – with No. 1 hitting $257.1 billion

Thomas Oide joined the Star Tribune following his internship there in summer 2019. Before moving to Minneapolis, he studied journalism and computer science at the […]
May 22, 2021

Target CEO says company taking steps to be 'true leader' in diversity, inclusion

Last month, after a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the murder of George Floyd, Target CEO Brian Cornell sent a […]