Dirk DeYoung

The Business Journal’s annual ranking of the Twin Cities biggest restaurant patios is out, and there’s a new No. 2, and five restaurants are new to the list this year.

Polaris Inc. has opened its first charging network for off-road recreational vehicles supporting roughly 100 miles of trails in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and it announced that an outfitter in that area is now offering the first fleet of Polaris EV ATVs.

Whitney-Lehr Koening joined the Business Journal in 2018 as an advertising account manager and was promoted to advertising director in September 2020, then vice president of sales in June 2023.

NMDP, formerly known as Be The Match, has named Katherine Heyerdahl as chief financial officer and Jim Graham as chief information officer.

This week's roundup of news on food and drink around the Twin Cities includes a new owner for ShowPlace Icon Theatre & Kitchen at West End, Minnesota's biggest wineries, The New York Times favorite Twin Cities pizza and more.

Here’s a roundup of recent news on food and drink around the Twin Cities.

Hormel Foods Corp. is partnering with another major food producer, General Mills Inc., to launch a cereal-flavored bacon.

This week, the Business Journal is launching a running feature called Twin Cities Icons to highlight the businesses that help define our region.

The Boeing Co.’s announcement late last week that it would lay off 10% of its workforce, or 17,000 people, got my attention. It was personal.

Franklin Outdoor Advertising, which operates hundreds of billboards in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, has bought the assets of Houck Outdoor, adding 18 billboard properties — for a total of 38 billboard faces — to its portfolio.