WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring in the United States rebounded in March as U.S. employers added a solid 196,000 jobs, up sharply from February’s scant gain and evidence that many businesses still want to hire despite signs that the economy is slowing. The unemployment rate remained at 3.8%, near ...

MNRAAA announces Jason W. Swanson as new executive director The Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging’s board of directors announces the hiring of Executive Director Jason W. Swanson. “Jason has taken the leadership role following the retirement of MNRAAA’s previous long-term Executive ...

MARSHALL — Rachel Deutz believes in taking things one day at a time and one customer at a time. She’s operated Treasured Times in downtown Marshall for more than 10 years. Her long range business venture started in 2001 when her mother, Gene (Zick) Gilb, was willing to go back to having a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an apparent bid to kick-start the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Donald Trump on Friday issued a new presidential permit for the project — two years after he first approved it and more than a decade after it was first proposed. Trump said the permit ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s latest pick to help lead the Federal Reserve has received a rocky reception — with top economists raising several red flags about whether Stephen Moore is qualified to be a governor of the world’s most influential central bank. Moore is a ...

Stocks finished broadly higher on Friday as Wall Street closed out the first quarter with the market’s biggest gain in nearly a decade. The benchmark S&P 500 index is now up 13.1 percent this year, a drastic turnaround for stocks after a jarring 14 percent sell-off in the last three ...