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    Single boots, clothes, partial children’s games, masks, holiday decorations and garbage rest in the garbage bin at Goodwill Industries in Duluth. Many items get dumped at Goodwill on Sunday evenings, and once they get wet they cannot be brought into the building. Jed Carlson / Forum News Service
    How to make sure your donated items aren't burdening charities
    Sleigh bells ring, the air is crisp, and the urges both to help fellow humans and to rack up a tax deduction by year's end overwhelm. In the...
    business/community2 hours 15 min ago
    Goats become electrician's side business. No kidding!
    When Talis Johnson and his sons aren't working for their business, Builders Electric in Sioux Falls, they're tending a growing herd of goats....
    business/agriculture3 hours 15 min ago
    December 6, 2019
    St. Paul’s Fairview-owned Bethesda Hospital. (Submitted photo)
    Bethesda Rehab Hospital in St. Paul to cut half its beds as Fairview drops 340 workers system-wide
    ST. PAUL, Minn. — M Health Fairview will dramatically reduce operations at Bethesda Rehabilitation Hospital near downtown St. Paul, eliminating...
    business/healthcare14 hours 4 min ago
    Illustration by Troy Becker / Forum News Service
    Cybersecurity 'has to be in your DNA' to fend off hacking threats
    WEST FARGO, N.D. — Small- to mid-sized businesses may not face the tens of thousands of daily cyberattacks directed at big corporations or...
    business/technology21 hours 45 min ago
    Snocross snowbike racers are lost in blizzard conditions during a practice run on the course Saturday afternoon at Spirit Mountain. Officials called off events after 2:45 p.m. for lack of visibility. (Tyler Schank / tschank@duluthnews.com)
    Spirit Mountain to ask Duluth for $235K to stay afloat
    DULUTH -- Unless the city of Duluth agrees to provide Spirit Mountain with a $235,000 subsidy, the ski hill will have only about enough money...
    business/tourism23 hours 30 sec ago
    The Twitter Inc. logo is displayed on an Apple iPhone in this arranged photograph taken in New York. Bloomberg photo by Alex Flynn
    Twitter wanted to be the town square. Now it's also grappling with being a cemetery
    Aaronekia Williams still visits her brother's Twitter page, even though he died in 2014. She'll read though his old jokes for a laugh, occasionally...
    business/technologyDecember 6, 2019 - 10:31am
    December 5, 2019
    A field of irrigated potatoes remains unharvested south of Walhalla, N.D., on Wednesday, Oct. 30, when the temperature remained below freezing throughout the day. Photo by Eric Hylden / Grand Forks Herald
    UND analyst expects regional economy to feel effect of 2019 crop losses
    GRAND FORKS — The ripple effect of what likely will be multibillion-dollar crop losses will be felt in many sectors of the Grand Forks regional...
    business/agricultureDecember 5, 2019 - 5:57pm
    Curt Knutson, of Fisher, Minn., chairman of the board of American Crystal Sugar Co., speaking at the annual meeting in Fargo on Thursday, Dec. 5, said "Sometimes we have to bear the brunt of a bad year." (Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service)play button
    American Crystal Sugar looks to get past this year's 'bump in the road'
    FARGO — As a grower for American Crystal Sugar Co. and chairman of the co-op’s board, Curt Knutson tried to look for a bright side to a miserable...
    business/agricultureDecember 5, 2019 - 4:22pm
    The Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Forum News Service
    Mayo closes two more facilities, blames rural health care crisis
    Mayo Clinic on Wednesday announced it will close facilities in Springfield and Lamberton in southwestern Minnesota early next year, continuing...
    business/healthcareDecember 5, 2019 - 2:18pm
    Ice falls from a vertical support on the Aerial Lift Bridge from the force of a high-pressure stream directed by a city worker Tuesday. Workers removed ice from the bridge to lighten it enough so it would rise again. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com
    Duluth's Aerial Lift Bridge reopens to shipping
    DULUTH — The Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth reopened to shipping traffic Thursday, Dec. 5, after closing due to excessive ice weight Monday....
    business/transportationDecember 5, 2019 - 2:03pm
    TC Energy reported an oil spill in the rural Edinburg area, about 30 miles northwest of Grafton, N.D., on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Submitted photo
    North Dakota oil pipeline spill cleanup continues
    EDINBURG, N.D. -- TC Energy crews worked through the holiday weekend as cleanup efforts continue at the oil spill site outside Edinburg. A company...
    business/energy-and-miningDecember 5, 2019 - 10:55am
    The front of the Sioux Falls VA Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Jeremy Fugleberg / Forum News Service
    Sioux Falls VA got snap inspection. Here's what it found
    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A snap inspection of the Sioux Falls VA showed the health care system got a mostly clean bill of health. The report of the...
    business/healthcareDecember 5, 2019 - 10:11am
    Pasta. Photo for The Washington Post by Greg Powers
    Italian pasta increasingly is made of wheat from the U.S. and Canada
    Italy, the world's biggest pasta consumer, can't abandon the North American wheat used to make spaghetti and macaroni after smaller plantings...
    business/agricultureDecember 5, 2019 - 9:02am
    December 4, 2019
    JBS to buy Minnesota beef plant, saving 145 jobs
    PIPESTONE — The September announcement that J&B Group would close its beef processing operation in Pipestone brought a cloud of worry over...
    business/agricultureDecember 4, 2019 - 6:27pm
    Farmers harvest soybeans in this aerial photograph taken over Wyanet, Ill., on Oct. 19, 2019. Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker.
    Analysis: Trump's $28 billion trade war bailout may be overpaying some farmers
    President Donald Trump's $28 billion farm bailout may be paying many growers more than the trade war with China has cost them. The U.S. Department...
    business/agricultureDecember 4, 2019 - 12:31pm
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