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Holiday shoppers could be in a bah-humbug kind of mood this year, according to a survey of business leaders and managers in nine Midwest and Plains states released Monday.
A Missouri farmer has died after being struck by lightning while checking on his cattle.
Governors from across the Midwest are working together to promote clean energy industry and infrastructure in the region despite heated competition between their states for new investment and jobs.
If suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay end up being held in Kansas, it wouldn't be the first time foreign detainees were imprisoned in the Midwest.
A five-minute drive from this community's lone gas station leads to a gateway to untapped riches: A bed of coal twice the size of Lake Michigan.
The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions.
A survey of business leaders in nine Midwestern and Plains states suggests that the region's economy continues to show signs of improvement, but job losses persist.
Republic Airways Holdings said on Tuesday it will buy Midwest Airlines, the second time in two days it has aimed to rescue an ailing airline.
Thousands of utility customers in the Midwest are without electricity following waves of thunderstorms.
Sprint Nextel Corp. said Friday it plans to sell a chunk of its cellular network in the Midwest to comply with an Illinois court decision.
Hundreds of sandbags that protected Jim Brenan's south Fargo home from Red River floodwaters are gone. Now he has deep ruts in what used to be his lawn, shattered sidewalks and a broken sprinkler system. But no complaints.
Other than their newly crowned boys high school basketball champs, residents of Linton have had little to cheer about this year.
Millions of bags filled with sand were used to battle record flood crests in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn. But now that the flood risk is over, city leaders wonder: Where will the sand go?
An eastern North Dakota city that has suffered from flooding problems for much of the month has taken a step toward normalcy — residents are allowed to flush their toilets again.
A nuclear missile will be removed from an underground silo in North Dakota because runoff from melting snow leaked into the facility, the Air Force said Tuesday.
Home sales in the Midwest declined again in March as lingering economic uncertainty kept early spring home shoppers from becoming buyers, but the region still fared better than the rest of the country, according to two reports released Thursday.
Parts of North Dakota recently threatened by river flooding have begun to clean up in hopes of quickly returning to business as usual.
Town officials on Monday urged residents to stay out of town and out of the way while they wait for the Sheyenne River to retreat and work to fix flood damage to the sewer system.
As the swollen Red River threatened Fargo this spring, thousands of eyes were trained on the city's miles of sandbag walls. But just in case the townspeople missed something, the eye in the sky was watching, too.
Boat crews from federal agencies including the Coast Guard patrolled farming country in southeast North Dakota on Saturday, looking for people stranded by flooding from the Sheyenne River.
Spring floods are receding for now, but farmers and ranchers in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota are worried they're on track to repeat the dismal year of 1997.
The body of a rural Minnesota man reported missing late last week has been found in the Red River.
Staff Sgt. Matthew Mitzel has patrolled the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq, and now he's patrolled the Red River in Fargo.
Marc Shannon says he trusts the two-week-old sandbag dike behind his south Fargo house, but that didn't stop him from asking a passing survey crew for some help as he prepared for a second crest of the swollen Red River.
Farmers Scramble to Finish Harvest"Late-maturing crops and persistent rain throughout October halted fieldwork, making this the slowest start for the U.S. harvest since the 1970s."
Better Squirrel Away the Nuts Now....Almanac Predicts 'Very Frigid' Winter Americans, you might want to check on your sweaters and shovels — the Farmers' Almanac is predicting a cold winter for many of you. The venerable almanac's 2010 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says numbing cold will predominate in the country's midsection, from the Rocky …
Delphi Not Sure When, How Many Jobs Will Come With StimulusWhen President Barack Obama announced Delphi Automotive Systems of Kokomo would receive 89 million dollars build parts for electric cars, company officials were surprised and excited.
Midwest governors form high-speed rail groupMidwest governors met in Chicago on Monday in a show of unity as they push for an eight-state, high-speed rail network -- agreeing to set up a group that will coordinate the states' bid for a share of $8 billion in federal stimulus cash for such projects.
BBC NEWS | Business | US manufacturing jobs go to ChinaWe're not only watching the dismantling of my company, we're also watching the dismantling of the circuit board industry in the United States and the dismantling of American industrial might." Countrywide situation
High-speed rail picks up speed in MidwestThe City of Chicago joined with eight states - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin - to sign a memoranding of understanding to establish a high speed rail network.
Regional Shift Seen in Education GapHistorically, the achievement gap between America's black and white students was widest in Southern states, where the legacies of slavery and segregation were reflected in extremely low math and reading scores among poor African-American children.
Ohio the Exception to Big City Growth, According to dataMany big cities across the nation appear to be feeling an unexpected consequence of the economic downturn — population growth.
Obama's Southern Problem—And Ours"The New South," wrote journalist Robert Scheer in the 1970s, "is the Old South with air conditioning." Unfortunately, even 30 years of central home air hasn't cooled the white heat of the South.
Tornadoes, severe storms pummel the MidwestAnother round of storms in the Midwest has damaged homes and businesses, flooded streets and knocked out power to thousands.
Hate Crime or Accident?A boy burned in the woods with three friends claims they set him on fire. They claim it was an accident.
You know Kansas City and St. Louis are the largest cities in Missouri. Do you know which city is third-largest? No fair looking it up before taking the poll!
I have always considered corporate culture and consumerism to be the culture-thieves of the United States. I recently discovered that the opposite and equal reaction to corporate mono-culture has given me a tradition that connects me to a larger cultural belief system.
Selling off America's manufacturing might, a factory at a time | detnews.com | The Detroit News"Everyone in our generation from the Midwest ought to see this," said Cooper Suter, a 44-year-old unemployed carpenter from Toledo who has turned to scrapping factories to make ends meet.
Home gold-buying parties become fadThere's a new home party-giver who wants a seat on your couch. As Americans struggle to make ends meet, home gold-buying parties are becoming the latest fad across the South and Midwest.
Upper Midwest states split on federal aid ST. PAUL - Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle appeared before the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, asking that his state get its share of money from a federal economic recovery package.
TAKING it SlowKurt Michael Friese considers himself fortunate to be a chef in the midwest. He likes the availability of fresh meats and produce;
More snack foods join massive recallExcerpt: The company that sells Little Debbie snacks has announced a recall of peanut butter crackers because of a potential link to a deadly salmonella outbreak.
It's not too late to get ready for this week's cold snapArticel gives several quick, low-cost ways to help seal windows etc. against the chill breezes. I might add that it is also not too late to book flights to warmer climes. ;)
I don't know why anyone would care, but one might notice that I haven't been active on Newsvine in two years.
As Industries Dry Up, Frustration and Despair in IndianaTo understand just how grim things have gotten in this northern Indiana town, consider a new law passed last month by the City Council that limits residents to one garage sale a month.
Hi all - Mara Schiavocampo here, reporting from the road on how people across the Midwest are being affected by the struggling economy.
What Celebs would look like if they were from the midwestThru the miracle of Photoshop, a view of what celebs would look like if they lived in the Midwest...
"Chicken Pox Parties?"A growing trend in the Midwest appears to be "chicken pox parties," to bring together youngsters who have not as yet suffered the disease with those tykes who currently have the disease.
Everybody's gone crazy: $5 a gallon gas hits mid-MichiganFive-dollar-a-gallon gasoline has hit mid-Michigan. As fears rose Hurricane Ike would affect the nation's gas supplies, some residents were reporting $5 gallon a gas in the area.
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