Foxconn Technology Group could use its Mount Pleasant facility to assemble key components for Google servers, according to a report from Bloomberg. Foxconn landed the contract with Google and decided it would locate production in the United States rather than in Asia, Bloomberg reported. The Taiwanese technology company inked a deal with Wisconsin to build a complex to make high-tech screens ... Read More

Nov. 20--MARYLAND HEIGHTS -- On a small piece of ground in this corner of northwest St. Louis County, Dale and Carol Boggs have eked out a living for years on golf lessons and $10 buckets of balls. Development, which was supposed to build out the Missouri River floodplain here and bring more customers, still hasn't arrived. But the taxes in the Howard Bend Levee District -- which pay down $23 ... Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Fired former FirstEnergy executives improperly paid a firm tied to a future Ohio utility regulator about $4 million early last year to terminate “a purported consulting agreement” that had been in place since 2013, one of the nation's largest electric utilities told federal regulators on Thursday. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chairman Sam Randazzo was not mentioned ... Read More

Nov. 18--The Minnesota Supreme Court denied a request from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to add several documents into the record that would have supported a clay liner for the tailings basin of PolyMet's proposed copper-nickel mine. The documents could have helped bolster the state agency's argument that a bentonite liner would prevent pollution, but the court on Monday said ... Read More

Nov. 17--The full City Council will get its first look this week at plans for major renovation at the Fox Valley Mall. Aldermen meeting as a Committee of the Whole will look at the plans for a future mall that includes residential, commercial, retail, entertainment and open-space uses. The council's Building, Zoning and Economic Development Committee last week endorsed a special use, ... Read More

Gabrielle Grier, managing director of Juxtaposition Arts on W. Broadway in north Minneapolis, was making business connections one morning this month as she toured the stunning resurrection of the Capri Theater at Penn Avenue and W. Broadway. Director James Scott will reopen the century-old Capri Theater in January, after a $12.5 million overhaul that adds an exhibit and meeting space and ... Read More

Canadian oil transportation giant Enbridge may soon lose its permission to operate a controversial, aging, oil and gas pipeline on the Straits of Mackinac lake bottom. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Department of Natural Resources Director Dan Eichinger on Friday notified Enbridge that a 1953 easement allowing it to operate dual pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac to transport ... Read More

Two Minnesota regulators Thursday granted environmental permits for Enbridge’s Line 3 oil pipeline across northern Minnesota, critical approvals needed for construction to begin soon on the controversial $2.6 billion project. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) approved permits dealing with water quality and wetland issues arising from construction of the 340-mile pipeline. Also, ... Read More

Nov. 10--Kansas City parks officials gave the green light Tuesday for the zoo to move forward with plans to build a $75 million aquarium. The approval is a significant step for the Friends of the Kansas City Zoo, which has been working toward the project since 2014, said Executive Director Randy Wisthoff. Wisthoff said he hopes to complete designs and begin construction next year in order to ... Read More