Blue skies, a walleye chop and warmer temperatures than most fishing openers. It was one of those weekends that will live in the back of our memory when the snow piles up in January.

Last week's elections in France and Greece may spell disaster for the financial future of both nations. France elected an avowed socialist, one Francois Hollande, to replace more conservative Nicolas Sarkozy.

Do you ever have conflicts or get mixed messages from your boss? Try having seven bosses with varying priorities and see how well you perform at work.

Minnesota’s House of Representatives passed the much debated Vikings stadium bill (which would give the Vikings a new roofed stadium at a cost of $1 billion) late Monday on a 73-58 vote with one major amendment — the Vikings will have to cough up $105 million more to get the job done. That’s $...

A United States senator has posed the question that's on the minds of millions of Americans: Has the Obama administration's "hope and change" spending put America's fiscal future in jeopardy? Sen.

"Nearly 30 percent of jobless Americans have been out of work for at least a year, according to the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative report on the first quarter," The Los Angeles Times reported. That's an astounding figure.

Interim Airport Manager Rick Adair threw a curve at the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport Commission Tuesday when he told members he wouldn't continue to serve in that capacity if he wasn't allowed to apply for the job.

Last week I was headed to Long Beach, Calif, to meet my newest grandchild, Claire. Tricia, my wife, had made the travel arrangements and I flew out of the newly remodeled Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport terminal.

After the Brainerd lakes area was told there would be no July 4 parade and celebration in Brainerd, a call went out for someone, a group or an alternative location for the annual Independence Day celebration.

That headline was in the fedgazette, the newspaper published by the Ninth District of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in its April edition.