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Maria Smith leaves a corporate career to open a family-run Filipino restaurant in Rogers, Arkansas, with her brother Bill Martfeld cooking from their mother's recipes.

Walmart's fiscal 2026 proxy lists five executives' pay from $15.5M to $44.1M; new hire Daniel Danker tops it after a partial year, and the CEO pay ratio is 958 to 1.

The gravitational-wave detectors start a six-month intermediate observing run before the fifth observing run. Both LIGO detectors take part, Virgo joins despite possible maintenance interruptions, and KAGRA joins as it becomes available.

Great River Energy (GRE) is deploying the 100 MW / 400 MWh utility-scale Benton Battery Energy Storage System near the Benton County Substation in Minden Township, Benton County, Minnesota. Tracked in the MISO queue and interconnecting directly to the regional 115 kV grid anchoring the joint Northland Reliability Project corridor, the four-hour battery installation stabilizes bulk power flows and absorbs abundant central Minnesota wind and solar generation.

The Benton Solar Project pairs a 100 MW solar array with a 100 MW battery storage system (400 MWh per the PUC release) about four miles east of St. Cloud in Minden Township. The Minnesota PUC approved it in December 2025, with construction expected to begin in the second quarter of 2026 and full operation by late 2027.

Hop Hill Solar is a proposed solar facility of up to 500 MW with battery storage of up to 500 MW about 11 miles north of Prosser in Benton County, Washington. EFSEC received the site certification application on December 22, 2022 and a November 15, 2023 order found it inconsistent with local land-use regulations; the application remains in review.

BrightNight's Hop Hill project would put up to 500 MW of solar and up to 500 MW of battery storage on about 5,000 acres in Benton County, Washington; Washington's siting council ruled it inconsistent with county zoning on 15 November 2023 and in October 2025 the applicant asked to extend review to 22 December 2026, and no cost has been published.