Five Minnesota business leaders are among the nearly 500 leaders from across the nation who are urging national leaders to come to a compromise regarding the U.S. debt ceiling and a plan to decrease the nation's deficit.

Retailers whose "buyer's cards" are expired, can't get them renewed during the shutdown-meaning once they run out of alcohol, they're unable to buy more. Meanwhile, MillerCoors reportedly must remove its beer from Minnesota bars and stores because it didn't renew its brand licenses prior to the shutdown.

Anderson Builders and KM Building Company have joined forces to form Anderson-KM Builders, which will provide real estate development and building services.

The contract award comes about two months after Alliant Techsystems lost an $850 million Army contract to run an ammunition plant in Virginia-a decision that it formally protested.

The CEO of Hoyt Properties, Inc., claimed assets of $31.5 million and liabilities of about $54 million, according to court documents.

Chief District Judge Kathleen Gearin on Monday reportedly turned down six requests and approved two requests from organizations asking for funding under the state shutdown.

A team of inventors from Minneapolis won the grand prize at the annual Red Bull Creation competition, in which 16 teams had 72 hours to build innovative-but quite bizarre-contraptions.

A first-of-its-kind American Jobs Conference will take place on Twitter on July 19; Governor Tim Pawlenty will give the "Tweetnote presentation" and numerous government, technology, business, and recruiting leaders will be featured.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Target is moving faster than originally expected with its Canadian expansion plans and intends to hire 100 workers in the country by the end of the year.

Xcel Energy said that it has reached a settlement with the U.S. government regarding costs incurred because of the U.S. Department of Energy's failure to begin removing used fuel from the company's nuclear plant sites by a 1998 deadline.

Rambis has served as head coach of the Minnesota team for two seasons and had a record of 32 and 132 with the team.

State employees who have been laid-off or furloughed, along with others who have been economically impacted by the state shutdown, can skip one or two monthly payments on most types of loans through the bank programs.

OfficeLeaks.com, an online forum through which employees anonymously post comments about the companies for which they work, is now seeking to profit by charging employers a fee to gain access to the online conversations.

Hines is reportedly planning a 185-unit apartment building near the Twins stadium, marking the first step in what could be a major three-phase project.

After an unsuccessful attempt earlier this month, the company petitioned the state again last week to allow the commission that regulates it to operate during the shutdown.