The cost of the proposed light-rail line could balloon from $1.25 billion to nearly $1.7 billion, depending on which option planners select for dealing with existing freight rail.
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Although Hiawatha light rail line riders were down slightly over last year’s record totals, the North Star commuter rail line was up 15 percent.
Valley Cartage relocated its headquarters from Hudson, Wisconsin to Lake Elmo after the state offered it a $500,000 forgivable loan and the opportunity to apply for $400,000 in tax credits.
Planners are considering eight options for either moving existing freight traffic to St. Louis Park or keeping it in the Minneapolis Kenilworth corridor, in order to make room for a new light-rail line.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case regarding whether airlines should be protected from lawsuits after reporting security threats that turn out to be false alarms; Fafinski Mark & Johnson represents the airline in the case.
The new laws also include a total of $496.1 million to fund dozens of arts, parks, trails, and natural resources projects throughout the state.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development released its quarterly Business Expansion Report Wednesday, which shows that the key expansion areas are in the west metro and Duluth.
In ’68 the skirts were short, the drinks were stiff . . .
and airports were the place to do business?
Update: The 2013 Minnesota Legislature came up nearly empty on infrastructure funding.
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Pinnacle is now a Delta subsidiary and its pilots exclusively fly Delta Connection regional flights.
General Motors pulled the Cadillac account from ad agency Fallon after nearly three years of award-winning work.
A new report from the Metropolitan Council and the Federal Transit Administration includes responses to public comments on a previous report, which some people said lacked a comprehensive assessment of the effect on area businesses.
The Metropolitan Council’s new proposals for re-routing existing freight rail to make room for the Southwest Light-Rail Corridor include a route through the St. Louis Park High School football field.
Delta Air Lines plans to expand its work force at its reservation call center in Chisholm, which currently houses about 500 full-time employees.
The company—which has offered car sharing on the University of Minnesota campus since 2005—has placed 40 vehicles throughout the city, and its rates range from $8.75 per hour to $72 for a 24-hour period.
A former employee of Memory Lane Classics, a car restoration company in Chisholm, was charged Tuesday with wire fraud and transaction money laundering.
Brooklyn Center-based ABRA Auto Body & Glass, which has been on a growth streak