Departing North Dakota Department of Trust Lands Commissioner Jodi Smith has been hired by the governing group that's managing the Red River diversion project in […]

A Mediterranean Shipping Co. cargo ship filled with containers waits offshore for entry to the Port of Los Angeles on Oct. 6. A record number […]

Four University of Minnesota students have come up with a new way for people to move around. They took the wheeled walker that many seniors […]

The price of glass jars to hold pasta sauce and other products has soared during the pandemic. Sauce maker Paul Guglielmo in Rochester, N.Y., has […]

Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9 percent boost in benefits for 2022. The biggest cost-of-living adjustment in 39 years follows a burst in […]

During the early months of the COVID 19 pandemic, many of us worked from home to prevent the spread of the virus. Some of us still […]

Americans have fallen way behind. The rent's overdue and evictions are looming. Two-thirds of parents say their kids have fallen behind in school. And 1 […]

One reason America's employers are having trouble filling jobs was starkly illustrated in a report Tuesday: Americans are quitting in droves. The Labor Department said that quits […]

A child-size Minnetonka suede and leather moccasin, pictured in 2011. The company has apologized for appropriating Native American culture and promised to do more to […]

Three U.S-based economists won the 2021 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for pioneering research on the labor market impacts of minimum wage, immigration and […]