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    FILE PHOTO: People line up outside a Kentucky Career Center hoping to find assistance with their unemployment claim in Frankfort, Kentucky, on June 18. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston/File Photo
    U.S. job growth slows sharply in July
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (Reuters) — U.S. employment growth slowed considerably in July amid a resurgence in new COVID-19 infections, offering the...
    business/markets1 hour 34 min ago
    August 6, 2020
    Smithfield foods employees and family members line up to get tested for the coronavirus at a drive-through testing center set up Avera Health and the State of South Dakota at Washington High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Monday, May 4. (Jeremy Fugleberg/Forum News Service)
    CDC: 25% of Smithfield employees in Sioux Falls contracted COVID-19 during spring outbreak
    PIERRE, S.D. — Almost 26% of the employees at Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls tested positive for COVID-19 during an outbreak March 16 to April...
    business/agriculture17 hours 7 min ago
    Burger King, Popeyes parent company to close hundreds more outlets to weather pandemic
    Aug. 6 (Reuters) — Restaurant Brands International Inc. said on Thursday it will close hundreds more outlets this year as the owner of Burger King and Tim Hortons looks to shore up capital to weather a sales hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. Sales at Burger King and Tim Hortons have...
    business/restaurants-and-bars22 hours 16 min ago
    August 5, 2020
    A trio of excavators move earth along the Dakota Access Pipeline route east of Williston, N.D., in late July 2016. Forum News Service file photoplay button
    Court issues mixed ruling on DAPL, letting the pipeline stay open during appeal
    BISMARCK — A federal appeals court gave Dakota Access a green light Wednesday, Aug. 5, to keep running its pipeline during a long appeals process,...
    business/energy-and-miningAugust 5, 2020 - 6:09pm
    The Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on April 16. (Jeremy Fugleberg/Forum News Service)
    Smithfield Foods drops OSHA subpoena fight over South Dakota plant COVID-19 outbreak reports
    SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
    business/agricultureAugust 5, 2020 - 5:00pm
    Minnesota store owner says mask policy led to scuffle with customer
    NISSWA, Minn. — A Nisswa, Minn., business owner says she was physically assaulted over a customer refusing to wear a mask. Bracha Naor, owner...
    businessAugust 5, 2020 - 9:25am
    A trio of excavators move earth along the Dakota Access Pipeline route east of Williston, N.D., in late July 2016. Forum News Service file photo
    Dakota Access says shutting down its pipeline would cost North Dakota billions. Are they right?
    BISMARCK — The operators of the Dakota Access Pipeline say that shuttering their pipeline, as a federal judge ordered them to do last month,...
    business/energy-and-miningAugust 5, 2020 - 6:10am
    August 3, 2020
    An oil well in western North Dakota. (Forum News Service file photo)
    Oil, brine spilled in Dickinson mostly recovered
    BISMARCK — An estimated 15,960 gallons of produced water and 3,200 gallons of oil spilled Friday, June 31, at a saltwater disposal well on...
    business/energy-and-miningAugust 3, 2020 - 6:04pm
    Fuel pumps stand at a Marathon Petroleum Speedway gas station in Waddy, Kentucky, on March 25, 2020. Bloomberg photo by Luke Sharrett.
    7-Eleven owner to buy Marathon gas stations for $21 billion
    Seven & i Holdings, the world's largest convenience-store franchiser, agreed to buy Marathon Petroleum's Speedway gas stations for $21 billion,...
    business/marketsAugust 3, 2020 - 11:11am
    Cooks at the Ground Round prepare meals during the lunch rush Saturday, Aug. 1. Tanner Robinson / WDAYplay button
    Grand Forks businesses see mixed bag during pandemic
    GRAND FORKS — Cooks at the Ground Round are starting to get back into the swing of things, as food orders lined the counter tops Saturday,...
    businessAugust 3, 2020 - 7:55am
    A barley field near Devils Lake, N.D. (Jaryn Homiston / Agweek)play button
    Good-looking crops, with major caveats, in north central ND
    DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — How you assess cereal grain conditions in the Devils Lake area depends on whether you see the glass as half-full or half-empty....
    business/agricultureAugust 3, 2020 - 7:33am
    August 2, 2020
    Minnesota nitrogen fertilizer restrictions to begin Sept. 1
    ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture reminded farmers and landowners that beginning Sept. 1, the application of nitrogen fertilizer...
    business/agricultureAugust 2, 2020 - 3:29pm
    August 1, 2020
    LeRoy Pederson, North Dakota's longest serving licensed barber, gives longtime customer Jim Benjaminson a haircut this week at Town and Country Barbershop in Grand Forks. Eric Hylden / Forum News Service
    86-year-old LeRoy Pederson of Grand Forks is the barber of a lifetime
    Barber LeRoy Pederson has made a life out of cutting hair.The Grand Forks resident has the distinction of being a barber for 67 years – longer...
    business/small-businessAugust 1, 2020 - 11:22am
    Calf sale to raise money for muscular dystrophy research
    business/agricultureAugust 1, 2020 - 8:30am
    July 31, 2020
    An unsolicited package of seeds sent to a Minnesotan. (Minnesota Department of Agriculture)
    Minnesotans continue receiving mystery seeds
    ST. PAUL — Minnesotans continue to receive unsolicited seed packages by mail, according to a news release from the Minnesota Department of...
    business/agricultureJuly 31, 2020 - 5:07pm
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