Industrials

Google's plan to build a $600 million wind-powered data center in central Minnesota may hinge on the tech giant's request for officials to waive 20 years' worth of future taxes.

In acquiring Newmont, the largest U.S. miner, Barrick would create a mining company that could be four times the size of its next closest rival.

The deal also includes $21 billion in cash as well as Danaher’s assumption of certain pension liabilities.

Canada's Barrick Gold, with a focus on Nevada, wants to buy Newmont Mining in an all-stock deal.

Safety inspectors say the operators of China's largest silver mine bought a broken down bus online, then overloaded it with miners, leading to brake failure and a crash that left 21 dead and 29 injured.

The Latest on the crash of a Boeing 767 jet freighter into Trinity Bay in Texas (all times local): 4 p.m.

A zinc mine that opened last June in northern New York has announced it's laying off more than half its workforce.

The federal agency overseeing the deepening of Savannah's busy shipping channel is performing critical tests to determine if mechanically pumping oxygen into the waterway will give enough of a boost to help fish breathe.

Hawaiian Airlines wants to more than double its daily service from Tokyo's Haneda airport to Hawaii.

Now there's one more place where cameras could start watching you — from 30,000 feet.

The developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline is going after the environmental group Greenpeace in state court in North Dakota, after a judge tossed the company's $1 billion racketeering claim out of federal court.

NASA and SpaceX have approved a test flight next week of the new commercial Dragon capsule designed for crew.

The flight attendants' union accuses American Airlines of discriminating against its mostly female group by imposing a stricter attendance policy that can result in employees being fired quickly.

Government officials say the five-month shutdown of a North Dakota highway during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline was not aimed at manipulating the media or an American Indian tribe fighting the project.

Australia's trade minister says that while there might be some delays in processing of coal shipments at Chinese ports, he has no reason to believe China is banning Australian coal.

Vietnam, the location of President Donald Trump's next meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has come a long way since the U.S. abandoned its war against communist North Vietnam in the 1970s.

Gov. Mike DeWine's administration on Thursday recommended increasing the state gas tax by 18 cents a gallon beginning July 1 and annually adjusting that tax for inflation to provide sufficient funding for maintenance of roads and bridges.

A Minnesota environmental group filed a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday, seeking to force it to make public the concerns its specialists have expressed about a copper-nickel mine in the northeast of the state.

To hear the Americans tell it, the Chinese have gone on a commercial crime spree, pilfering trade secrets from seed corn to electronic brains behind wind turbines.