The day after Thanksgiving marks the traditional start of the all-important holiday shopping season. Two huge Minnesota-based retailers -- Target and Best Buy -- are hoping for better business than they saw last year.

Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is calling for more federal help for small businesses. Klobuchar said she plans to take up the issue when Congress returns to work next week.

Farmers in Minnesota and the Dakotas could benefit from new USDA rules allowing them to market their livestock as natural.

Recall letters are going out to workers atHibbing Taconite Co. in anticipation of a staged resumption of production.

A cooperative project between colleges in Minnesota and North Dakota is encouraging high school students to consider alternative energy careers.

As shoppers around the nation crowded stores and malls in thewee hours Friday to grab discounts and hard-to-find items, earlyreports pointed to some renewed spending vigor.

After a Northwest Airlines plane flew past Minneapolis lastmonth, air traffic controllers asked the pilots repeatedly forexplanations about why they didn't heed radio calls, according totranscripts released on Friday.

With Target, Wal-Mart and Amazon.com slashing book prices below wholesale levels, independent bookstore owners worry customers will expect them to follow suit.

Dubai's debt crisis rattled world financial markets Friday, raising concerns that some banks could further tighten lending and ...

Police say a Wal-Mart store in Southern California closed its doors for several hours before dawn after some Black Friday shoppers ...

Prentice Jones worked construction jobs around Chicago for most of his 60 years and is quick to boast of a foreman job he once ...

General Motors Co.'s top European official said Friday that a plan for Opel to be unveiled next month will include a schedule ...

Market fears of a possible intervention by the Bank of Japan to support the dollar helped the U.S. currency recover its poise ...

An insolvent Canwest Global Communications Corp. on Friday said it reduced its fourth quarter loss by shedding costs and assets under creditor protection, even as its full-year loss grew.

Central Tax and its CT-Payment division, specializing in the processing of credit and debit card payment, announced their achievement of PCI DSS v1.2 Level 1 certification. This standard is the most recent for cardholder data protection. PCI compliance is critical

Instead of the traditional gift card and cake, a great 50th birthday gift idea is to send someone on a trip of a lifetime.

A provider of Maestro enterprise Property Management hotel software and reservation software solutions for the hospitality industry, Maestro PMS, announced that the PCI Security Standards Council certified the Maestro PMS as fully compliant with the Payment Card Industrys Payment Application

Partners Consulting Services, Inc. announced that their Data Center operation has completed the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70 type II audit. SAS 70 is an internationally recognized audit for validating the internal

Ignify, a universal provider of eCommerce, ERP and CRM solutions and services, announced that Ignify eCommerce 4.0 (the companys flagship platform) which has been positioned in hundreds of large online storefronts has become the industrys first and only mid-market eCommerce

The U.S. Department of Labors Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Wage and Hour Division together have fined Tempel Grain Elevators LLP of Wiley, Colo., more than $1.6 million following the May 29 death of a teenage worker