The St. Paul Port Authority board pushed for $1 million in state aid to seal the deal.

Minnesota construction companies shed 200 jobs from the month before, while the state’s employers, overall, added 7,300 jobs, according to seasonally adjusted data released by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.

The U.S. Department of Labor stretched out job-training and other services to workers at the idled Mesabi Nugget plant, in Hoyt Lakes and Chisholm, for up to 130 weeks.

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development reported Thursday that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was at 4 percent. It’s the first highest since May 2014 and a tick above the 3.9 percent for June.

A community meeting closes out a series of presentations aimed at soliciting feedback.

The 240,000-student University of California becomes the nation's first public university to commit itself to the $15-an-hour wage.

The change came as the labor force participation rate – or the proportion of Minnesotans working or looking for jobs – continued to grow, hitting 70.8 percent in May.

The provision was the last remaining question mark in the financing plan for a $10 million effort to build out a 60,000-square-foot aircraft painting facility in Duluth.

Minnesota scored 51.1 in the Mid-America Business Conditions Index, down from 51.3 in April.

Thief River Falls kicks in $2.2 million for the project that promises almost 50 new jobs.