The retailer is hiring a nonprofit conservation group to assess all of its seafood products to evaluate their environmental impact.

Common Cause Minnesota argues the American Legislative Exchange Council is a lobbying group masquerading as a charity. The complaints seek to strip ALEC of its tax-exempt status and require it to register as a lobbying group.

Eagan will be home to a new data center--helping to establish the city as a major telecommunications hub in the state. The Pioneer Press reports a North Carolina company is behind the project.

Gov. Mark Dayton pledges $100 million in new direct lending money to job creators. He makes the announcement after Tuesday's Jobs Summit in St. Paul. The added funds will go to qualifying Minnesota banks to distribute as business loans. Dayton says the move will double the state's investment in Minnesota small businesses.

The plan developed by Rep. Collin Peterson would replace dairy programs with new ones aimed at better protecting farmers by limited milk production when the difference between milk prices and the cost of producing it fell to a certain level.

The Minnesota director of Americans For Prosperity says the group "simply does not believe in publicly funded stadiums." The group has targeted Republicans Julie Rosen and Bill Ingebrigtsen and DFLer Terri Bonoff for defeat. Campaigning against Republicans is a rarity for the group.