Prices Soaring For High-Tech Car Parts
It's a trend auto body shop owners across the country are seeing right now. Ordinary car parts that used to cost a few dollars to replace can now cost hundreds.
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It's a trend auto body shop owners across the country are seeing right now. Ordinary car parts that used to cost a few dollars to replace can now cost hundreds.
The Government Shutdown ended a while ago, but it's still having an impact on some businesses - and some beer drinkers. Craft beers are regulated by the federal government, along with all other alcoholic beverages, and their paperwork wasn't processed during the shutdown.
Minnesota businesses will see lower unemployment insurance taxes starting next year. The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development says Tuesday that the unemployment insurance trust fund's $1.2 billion reserve at the end of September was enough to trigger a tax cut.
All this week at WCCO-TV, we're highlighting small businesses here in Minnesota. For Tuesday, we're highlighting a new store at the Mall of America where boys can be boys. J.M. Cremps already has a store west of the Twin Cities in Dassel, but the owners have opened a new store at the Mall of America in Bloomington.
Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. returned to a profit in the third quarter as the busy holiday season revs up. But the company says it expects a tough competitive environment during the holiday season.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, the nation's top turkey producer is coming up a little short. Butterball, based out of North Carolina, told retailers that orders for fresh 16-pound turkeys and larger have been cut in half. The shortage is nationwide. Woody Hunt, manager of Rainbow Foods in St. Louis Park, says 40 years ago, Butterball was like the "Cadillac of turkeys." "Everybody wanted a Butterball, and if you didn't have a Butterball on your table you couldn't brag to your neighbors that you had the best turkey," Hunt said.
The pace of Minnesota's corn harvest remains ahead of normal, thanks to the dry weather. In its weekly crop report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday that Minnesota's corn harvest is 94 percent complete, remaining a week ahead of normal.
Parents are looking for a new daycare and employees are looking for work after a child care center closed out of the blue.
Need some money advice? How about some from business icon Warren Buffett? One of the most successful investors of our time is sharing a secret. He banking on the stock of a Minnesota company.
Now that the weather is getting colder, many of us will be switching to indoor activities -- like bowling. So this week, we asked for your help in finding Minnesota's best bowling alley. You picked Cedarvale Lanes in Eagan.
Step inside the DigiFabLab on the University of Minnesota's College of Design and Dean Tom Fisher can hardly contain his excitement.
A historic Twin Cities high school is considering selling part of its front yard to a developer who wants to create a retail shopping center. The proposal is drawing fire from some alumni at the Academy of the Holy Angels.
Erik Hillesheim, a senior at Eagan High School, worked with Schwan's Food Service to develop a research and sales and marketing project for the school's lunch program.
A Canadian fuel supplier and reseller plans to enter the U.S. market with a $110 million purchase of a North Dakota fuel distribution business. Parkland Fuel Corporation, which is based in Red Deer, Alberta, said it is buying all outstanding shares of SPF Energy Inc.
The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the term sheet on a $97 million plan to renovate the Target Center, which is currently 23 years old and in need of a facelift.
