1 day ago - An Ohio Air Force Reserve unit charged with controlling mosquitoes during wartime is using bug-bitten North Dakota as a practice ground again this summer.
1 day ago - Ten years after millions of trees blew down in Minnesota's pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the forest is in the midst of a comeback.
2 days ago - The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States rose by 11 this week to 928, the third consecutive week for an uptick after months of declines.
3 days ago - A California-based poultry company that recently took over a closed Louisiana processing plant with assistance from the state says it will not extend contracts to all of the plant's former growers.
3 days ago - Oshkosh Corp. said Wednesday that it's too early to know how many jobs its new billion-dollar military contract will create but stressed that the number will be "significant."
3 days ago - North Dakota's lieutenant governor says four Midwestern companies have a $5 million deal to export about 275,000 bushels of soybeans to South Korea for tofu products.
3 days ago - The number of abortions performed in Minnesota in 2008 fell to the lowest level since the 1970s, and marked the second straight year of declines, the state Health Department reported Wednesday.