It's all about national search engines for real estate, and Google is easing its way into the fray. NAR has just announced their new Realtors Property Resource national database. Google is releasing "place pages" for every property in its maps database, and growing Google's presence in all areas of...

Ten Minnesota legislators, who paid their own way to take a fact-finding tour of Israel, have returned and say it provided a global perspective and insights into the troubled region.

Some agents, whether novice or veteran, can find themselves inadvertently turning into white knight agents. These types of agents are not out to save the world. They want to save home buyers and sellers from themselves. At least that's their intention. But most unlucky recipients, if they really stopped...

It really is a dog's life at Pampered Pooch Playground . The eco-friendly doggie daycare limits the number of pets they take each day, so tail-waggers have more room to nap and chase bubbles.

Thanks for a tweet by Tim O'Keefe about a study at New York University of the interdependence of paid click advertising and organic search results. It looks like they're using some very sophisticated models to look at one retail advertiser's results when they have both paid and free organic listings...

A Minnesota businessman accused of orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme testified Tuesday that he did not knowingly participate in the fraud and may have "trusted some people far too much." Tom Petters took the stand in the third week of his trial on 20 counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy and...

Groveland Elementary School will host a holiday art fair Friday and Saturday at the school, 17310 Minnetonka Blvd., Minnetonka.

It's sort of creepy to think about, but do you know if there has been a death in the house you are buying? It's not that uncommon to buy a home in which someone has died. Occurrences of death in a house are not limited to older homes or probate sales. People croak in new homes, too, because few of...

For Katy Tessman Stanoch, it has been been an overwhelming month. A month that's taken her from looking forward to a milestone birthday to shopping for hats and scarves.

Stander, who's always been active in arts himself during his many years with Isobel, took on a bigger role two weeks ago, accepting the position of director of the Elk River Area Arts Alliance .