November 15, 2020

Navajo Nation orders new three-week stay-at-home lockdown

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation on Monday will reinstate a stay-at-home lockdown for the entire reservation while closing tribal offices and requiring new […]
November 15, 2020

ASEAN, China, other partners set world's biggest trade pact

China and 14 other countries have agreed to set up the world’s largest trading bloc, encompassing nearly a third of all economic activity, in a […]
November 14, 2020

With rituals upended, Minnesotans rethink Thanksgiving

Sarah Branion’s seven-year Friendsgiving streak is coming to an end. With her extended family all living in Minnesota where she grew up, she and her […]
November 14, 2020

North Dakota governor changes tack and issues mask mandate

BISMARCK, N.D. — After months of resisting ordering the people of North Dakota to wear masks and limit the size of gatherings, the state’s Republican […]
November 14, 2020

Surging virus cases get a shrug in many Midwestern towns

ELMWOOD, Neb. — Danny Rice has a good sense of how dangerous the coronavirus can be. What puzzles him are the people who have curtailed […]
November 14, 2020

Shipyard, union are getting back on same page after strike

BATH, Maine — Months after bitter strike during a pandemic, Bath Iron Works managers and production workers are starting to get on the same page […]
November 14, 2020

The last of its kind, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange is being sold

While its regional peers that once dotted the U.S. have disappeared or been swallowed up by much larger conglomerates, the 139-year-old Minneapolis Grain Exchange has […]
November 14, 2020

Industry leader says e-commerce changes at retailers is here to stay

The pandemic has brought at least five years of progress in the transition to shopping online in eight or nine months — or maybe it’s […]
November 14, 2020

Twin Cities company NightWare uses technology to treat PTSD without drugs

A fledgling Twin Cities company that uses Apple technology to gently interrupt the nightmares of those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has begun […]
November 14, 2020

Uncertainty clouding your money moves? Here's how to sort things out

We just had an election and things are a bit confusing. The current president isn’t ceding power to the president-elect and the Senate has two […]