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.

Over the past eight weeks, a group of men and women have been building a different future for themselves. Now they get to build the world around them. "We outfitted them for duty," said Paul Trudeau, ...

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, ...

The Central Midwest Carpenters Union Warsaw training center has graduated 45 apprentices this year and a $15 million facility ...

MIDDLESEX COUNTY -- The Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District has expanded its partnership with the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters and will now offer carpentry training ...