WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has unveiled a new program to support American wood processing facilities. USDA Rural Development is partnering with USDA Forest Service to provide funding through the new Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan ...

NIAGARA, Wis. — Two companies are combining efforts to enhance area farmland for growing crops with a mining byproduct that also provides a means of carbon capture. Morin Ag Services, Scott Morin’s new division of his excavating company, partners with Lithos Carbon to spread basalt ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed new member ELH Document Services with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Iron Mountain. ELH Document Services provides notary public services, specializing in real estate documents, estate planning documents and other needs, ...

Sales rose this year during the holiday shopping season even as Americans wrestled with elevated prices for many groceries and other necessities, according to new data. Holiday sales from the beginning of November through Christmas Eve climbed 3.8%, outpacing the 3.1% increase from a year ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose for the second week in a row to its highest level since mid-July, reflecting a recent jump in the bond yields that lenders use as a guide to price home loans. The rate rose to 6.85% from 6.72% last week, mortgage ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people, pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts for the year. The bipartisan bill, which next heads to President Joe ...