Richfield News

Detours are ahead this weekend for drivers who normally use Interstate 35W between downtown Minneapolis and Crosstown Hwy.

It's not the 'physical' differences that will be striking in the coming changes to a two mile stretch of Oliver Avenue in Richfield.

Detours are ahead this weekend for drivers who normally use Interstate 35W between downtown Minneapolis and Crosstown Hwy.

Police are asking for the public's help to identify a woman who had a medical incident at a Home Depot in Richfield.

State Senator Dan Larson announced his intention to retire from the Minnesota State Senate Wednesday.

A Faribault man is dead and his friend behind bars awaiting charges for vehicular homicide following a July 4th golf cart accident.

Bruce Anderson is a man who loves metaphors, interspersing them often in conversation.

A new memorial to honor all veterans will be unveiled Friday afternoon in Richfield, Minn.

It's perhaps an atypical combination - ' religion teacher and pageant queen - ' but it's proved a perfect fit for Miss Minnesota International Tina Rosenthal.

Business should be booming at this highly visible hotel on the Interstate 494 strip near the airport and Mall of America, but instead occupancy and room rates are down.

Bob Willett readily admits that for many retailers, the road to international growth is "littered with failure." Yet Willett, the hard-charging CEO of Best Buy's international operations, is confidently leading ...

Best Buy Co. Inc. has announced it expects to double its sales in the next five years.

Circuit City Stores Inc. stayed mum on Tuesday about whether a buyout is in the future for the consumer-electronics retailer, but an activist investor expects an announcement of a possible sale within the next ...

Gov.Tim Pawlenty last week announced the appointment of Polly Peterson Bowles to an unscheduled vacancy on the Metropolitan Council in District 5. The vacancy occurred as a result of the resignation of Russell ...

Kelly and Stephanie Kinnunen, both 41, launched NEED Magazine to spread the word - and the photos - of how organizations and companies are addressing global problems.

Consumer electronics giant Best Buy reported a 7 percent decline in first-quarter profit Tuesday, though the Richfield-based retailer did better than analysts had expected, spurred by strong sales of ...

First-quarter profits for Best Buy Co. Inc. slipped 7 percent in the first quarter, but the electronics retailer still managed to beat Wall Street estimates and post solid same-store sales gains.

An Oregon man is the winner of this year's Great American Think-Off, a national philosophy competition that gives ordinary people the chance to debate some of life's perplexing questions.

This year's question: "Does immigration strengthen or threaten the United States?"

Craig Allen, of West Lynn, Ore., won a gold medal Saturday after a live audience in New York Mills decided he was most convincing when arguing that the system of immigration and immigration policy is broken. He says it encourages an influx of illegal immigrants and poses a threat to the country.

For more information about the organization or to learn how to donate or become a corporate sponsor, visit www.birth daybuddiesmn.com . * Birthday Buddies kits cost about $30 to make and are solely distributed ...

This was the week the phone books came out: 967 pounds of unrequested pulp. I know some people still use the phone book, and don't like dialing up AOL and e-mailing that Craig fellow with the list, or whatever ...