If you’re looking for a new job and are pretty handy with tools, a carpentry apprenticeship might be for you. The two-year program from the Home Builders Association of the Sioux Empire, Southeast ...

WILLMAR -- Ridgewater College plans to suspend its second-year carpentry program and to reduce and revamp its counseling services in preparing for expected budget shortfalls in the next fiscal year.

In recent years, school districts have made a stronger push to gauge student interest in trade careers, extolling the virtues of the region’s technical schools and the wide-open job market for skilled ...

Simeon Chappell spent a lot of time in his childhood being handy around the house. “If my dad was fixing something, I’d try and help, or I’d take measurements for him to cut wood,” said Chappell, 19, ...

Latrice Scroggins, 26, said she has always had jobs — but never a career. A mother of two, Scroggins, of Middle River, said she got a couple of college credits, “but my heart wasn’t in it.” Then she ...