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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers bashed open the front door of Thao’s St. Paul home at gunpoint without a warrant ...

The Department of Workforce Development reminds all welders operating in Bermuda that working legally within the designated trade requires mandatory participation in National Occupational ...

As Swanger sees it, that push towards college degrees over trade schools created a vacuum of skilled tradespeople. When it ...

OTTAWA, Kan. (KCTV) - A tornado left a trail of destruction south of Kansas City Monday night, damaging or destroying dozens ...

The U.S. Navy is retiring the USS Boise, ending the career of a 34-year-old attack submarine that spent roughly a decade out ...

TEXARKANA, Texas - Hundreds of people lined up for a manufacturing job fair Tuesday at the Texarkana Workforce Center.

This article originally published at Texas welder's Astros stadium grill goes viral, and you can actually open the roof.

Zelda the welder”, as she has become known at her sheet metal factory in Kent, was an expensive robot. All in, when she was ...

Sting’s evocative musical opens in Brisbane starring the man himself, as well as reggae star Shaggy. It’s not all plain ...

A scholarship at Minnesota’s Alexandria Technical & Community College will honor welding alumna Amber Czech, 20, who was fatally attacked by a male colleague in her place of work in November 2025.