The Daily Beast ranked the Twin Cities as the eighth-smartest metropolitan area-down four spots from last year when the metro ranked number four.

The Twin Cities has been chosen as one of five winners in a new initiative, which supports improving access to opportunities for low-income people.

Search crews continued to look for clues Thursday morning in the disappearance of a small plane piloted by local businessman Luke Bucklin, which also carried three of his sons.

Zack Dyab and Julia Rozhansky admitted to running a mortgage fraud scheme involving 24 homes in the Twin Cities.

The company plans to refile documents for 55,000 pending foreclosure cases but will not halt its foreclosure proceedings.

La Belle Vie topped Zagat's annual list of the finest restaurants in the Twin Cities.

After 3M was unable to acquire the necessary amount of Cogent's outstanding shares through its tender offer, the company will now have to use a Cogent shareholders vote to obtain the remaining shares.

The company posted better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and sales but said that same-store-sales in the first four weeks of the fourth quarter were down.

The Eden Prairie-based provider of data storage solutions has been among the New York Stock Exchange's largest gainers since Reuters reported that it may be for sale.

Totally Interactive Weather has received a strategic investment from Hubbard Broadcasting.

Called Hunting Works for Minnesota, the organization was formed to advocate for public policy that supports the sport and convey the economic impact that it brings to the state.

Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and Allina are extending their partnership to build a $50 million mother-baby center that will allow mothers to stay with their sick newborns.

The Tampa, Florida-based company will soon expand its 25-employee Minnesota work force as it puts more effort into developing its BiovaxID treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Federal investigators say that Johnny Heurung of Woodbury-who owns local company Money Investment, Inc.-was involved in a scheme that defrauded Petro America Corporation investors of $5 million.

Although most Minnesotans seem to think that the team should stay put in the Metrodome, the Minnesota Twins' new home-Target Field-was also largely unpopular four years ago before construction had begun.