Fire, it seems, is recession-proof. While Fireaway, a Minnetonka manufacturer of devices that put out fires, has taken a conservative approach in its three-year history, the company could be on the verge of hitting it big.

A year ago, at the 2008 CMT Bioplastics Markets Conference held in Guangzhou, the rising price of oil was giving the industry a boost.

A 25-year-old Wayzata woman died after a rollover crash late Saturday in Rockford.

The dreaded words being bantered about in real estate right now are the Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC). I don't know of a single real estate agent nor mortgage broker who likes the new HVCC rules for appraisals. It's turned our entire industry inside out in Sacramento and across the nation...