The Bloomington-based kids foundation thinkPINKkids is making its national debut Friday at the Mall of America.

Most areas face cuts, but library and sheriff budgets are expected to grow.

Eden Prairie, still waiting for donors to finance much of the project, will pay to add parking spaces.

A registered sex offender ordered out of his home in Franklin is expected in court tomorrow to ask for more time to move because the faltering real estate market has kept him from selling his house.

A record decline in U.S. home prices in August attracted more buyers in some areas and led to a sizable decline in the number of unsold homes on the market, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.

VANCOUVER – Plutonic Power Corp. has received B.C. Environmental Assessment Office approval of a 130-megawatt hydroelectric development in the Upper Toba Valley.

Plum Creek Timber has announced that effective Sept. 30, it is suspending operations for the rest of the year at its finger-joint stud manufacturing facility in Kalispell.

Travis County commissioners were expected to vote Tuesday on a budget for 2008-2009 that would send property taxes up by 5 percent — about $49 more per year for the average homeowner.

Nationwide home prices in July fell a record 5.3 percent compared with a year ago, a government agency said Tuesday, and have now receded to October 2005 levels.