The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is rolling out a new system to help survivors of sexual assault track information about their cases.
A group of educators gathered around a canoe display at the Grand Portage State Park welcome center. Rick Novitsky, who used to be the park manager, began telling a story about how the Grand Portage band of Chippewa turned this land on the banks of the Pigeon River and the Canadian border fr…
ST. PAUL — A judge declared most of Minnesota’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional on Monday, including the state’s mandatory 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that both parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion.
There’s a saying in Indian Country that Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin used to frame up her remarks about the need for infrastructure improvements during a U.S. Senate field hearing in Prior Lake.
Minnesotans with a range of disabilities face a worrisome future as a wave of group home closures hits the state, driven by staff shortages and low wages for direct support professionals, advocates say.
U.S. health authorities are facing a critical decision: whether to offer new COVID-19 booster shots this fall that are modified to better match recent changes of the shape-shifting coronavirus.
Some of Minnesota’s youngest residents will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as early as this week.
A Wright County man was sentenced Friday to life in …
As the music begins, couples take to the dance floor…
As the first warm waves of heat hit our area, we beg…
Despite early glitches with the state website, nearly 200,000 Minnesotans have already put in applications to receive a COVID-related bonus payment of up to $1,500.
A scientist who documented a decline in Wisconsin’s common loon population has expanded his research to Crow Wing County in north-central Minnesota.
Three of Minnesota’s state-run COVID-19 testing sites will soon become spots for COVID treatment, too, making them some of the first to come out of the federal government’s push to create “test-to-treat” sites.
Beer drinkers can take home their favorite brews to-…
In one measure of how windy it was in Minnesota, uti…
Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minn., says it is…
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a man who volunteered for a 2020 DFL state senate campaign of lying during an investigation into absentee ballot fraud.
Authorities in southern Minnesota say they are expanding the search to find 30-year-old Nyawuor “Sunday” Chuol. The Mankato woman has been missing since April 25 when she told family that she was going for a walk, but never returned home.
Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, disclosed Wednesday she has tested positive for COVID-19.
The Legislature is barreling toward the end of its y…
This week, Gov. Tim Walz and Health Commissioner Jan…
The mother of a man killed by Brooklyn Center police…
President Joe Biden visited Minneapolis Sunday afternoon to pay tribute to former Vice President Walter Mondale.
Time is slipping away at the Minnesota Capitol, with an adjournment deadline falling three weeks from Monday.
The Washington County Attorney’s Office says it will not file charges against officers who fatally shot a man in Forest Lake last November, saying their use of deadly force was justified.
Flags are a big deal in Minnesota. Civil War flags l…
Minnesotans have this week to weigh in on a draft pl…
State Rep. John Thompson intervened after a 26-year-…
The final weeks of the college school year have been disrupted yet again by COVID-19 as universities bring back mask mandates, switch to online classes and scale back large gatherings in response to upticks in coronavirus infections.
Gov. Tim Walz will be back in the Minnesota House chamber on Sunday to deliver his annual State of the State Address, a purposeful return to the Capitol where he’s spent relatively little time the past two years.
The Capitol Rotunda was filled with people Thursday to kick off an advocacy day of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. The rally that began with a Buddhist blessing.
Gov. Tim Walz implored state lawmakers Sunday to rea…
Work to expand another 12 miles of U.S. Highway 14 t…
From her perch at the Minnesota Department of Health…
Jockeying among Republican candidates aiming for the governor’s office remains intense as the universe of voters they need to persuade has narrowed considerably.
Each April we officially recognize National Minority Health Awareness Month to call attention to the health disparities that persist among racial and ethnic minority populations and the ways in which we can all help advance health equity.
When you look around, it would appear that many people think the pandemic is over. Hospitalizations and deaths in Minnesota are at some of their lowest levels of the pandemic. But there’s been a fast rise in cases on the East Coast.
Three former Minneapolis officers charged in the dea…
Tyler Jacob, a Minnesota man who was detained by Rus…
For “Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Ex…
The COVID-19 load in Twin Cities wastewater continues to trend up from its recent low in mid-March, but the increase is slow. The Metropolitan Council is reporting a 7 day rolling average of 39 million copies per person per day as of April 4, up from roughly 20 million three weeks earlier. R…
The Minnesota Senate passed the keystone of the Republican plan for the state’s projected $9.25 billion surplus – a tax bill that would cut income taxes by $3 billion this year and at least $2.5 billion each year after.
From the outside, the gray building just off Highway 71 in Willmar isn’t very imposing.
Republicans in the Minnesota Senate want to prevent …
GRAND PORTAGE — To administer this COVID test, Todd …
Jurors in St. Paul are expected to hear closing argu…
Minnesota’s pension fund holdings in investments with ties to Russia and Belarus are closer to being unloaded after a unanimous vote Tuesday by the state Senate.
At her job, Mayla Yang toggles between Hmong and English while talking on the phone.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office on Tuesday confirmed the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s probe into police killing of Amir Locke is in the hands of prosecutors who’ll now review the evidence for possible charges.
Federal agriculture officials are sending a team to …
Some Minnesota lawmakers are proposing to give the s…
A Twin Cities man has been charged in Mille Lacs Cou…
COVID-19 conditions continue to ease in Minnesota, with a little more than 200 patients in the hospital now and known, active cases falling significantly since the start of March.
The Minneapolis Public Schools and its teachers union say they’ve reached a tentative contract agreement to end a strike that’s kept more than 30,000 students out of school for more than two weeks. School will resume Monday.
The Minnesota Zoo says its 12-year-old male Amur tiger named Putin died Wednesday, after going into cardiac failure as veterinary staff were conducting what they called a routine preventative health exam.
Wintry mix? Check. Basketball tournament snowstorm? …
As the spring storm season approaches, the annual ef…
Neil McKay was 15 when he heard two men speaking in …
A man who was partially blinded during the George Floyd protests in 2020 said a Minneapolis police officer deliberately fired a 40mm projectile at his face.
A major shift is coming to the Iron Range legislative delegation with the retirement of longtime state Sen. Tom Bakk.
Until now, paid family and medical leave proposals at the state Capitol had been a largely one-sided affair. Democrats have pushed unsuccessfully for years to create a government program that would guarantee paid time off to bond with a child or care for a sick family member.
Drawings and paintings of owls entered in a Minnesot…
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has re…
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rolled out his proposal…
There’s still no agreement on replenishing the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund and repaying money owed to the federal government.
Minnesota’s path out of the pandemic continues to brighten, with just over 300 COVID-19 patients in the hospital now and known, active cases trending at a seven-month low. The fall-winter surge appears to be mostly over.
Minnesota business leaders, many lawmakers and the state agency that oversees unemployment benefits have had March 15 circled on the calendar. That’s when they had hoped to have resolved a $1.3 billion debt in the state’s unemployment trust fund and refill it to a level where automatic tax i…
We’re heading into the third year of the COVID pande…
Minnesota lawmakers are through one month of their 2…
Gov. Tim Walz took formal action Friday related to t…
The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and the St. Paul Federation of Educators are still on course for a potential strike that could start as early as next Tuesday, March 8.
Minnesota’s pandemic path continues to brighten, with fewer than 500 patients in the hospital now and known, active cases trending near a seven-month low.
The Minnesota House plans to vote Thursday on a bill requiring a special audit of the over budget Southwest light rail line, just one of several intensive reviews lawmakers are seeking this year from the Office of the Legislative Auditor.
An advocacy group is raising questions about CenterP…
A Minnesota House panel advanced legislation Wednesd…
As pet ownership has skyrocketed during the COVID pa…
Minnesota lawmakers found themselves swimming in surplus money Monday, as finance officials cautioned that events in Ukraine add uncertainty to a new forecast.
Minnesota is dealing with something new in the COVID-19 pandemic: good news.
Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 numbers offer more evidence of a pandemic surge in retreat, with fewer than 600 patients in the hospital now and new daily cases trending at a six-month low.
Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 numbers offer more evide…
Most Americans live in places where healthy people, …
Minnesota’s pandemic path continues to brighten, wit…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 report shows some promising trends. Hospitalizations and intensive care needs are down significantly the past few days. The positive test rate is still high but down off its recent peak.
Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant s…
The omicron surge seems to be receding — in the Twin…
Ironically, it took college writing professor Sequoi…
Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 report shows some promising trends. Hospitalizations and intensive care needs are down significantly the past few days. The positive test rate is still high but down off its recent peak.
Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall’s delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks.
The omicron surge seems to be receding — in the Twin Cities, at least. But COVID-19 cases are still peaking in greater Minnesota, we’re learning about N95 masks as they’re adopted more widely and there’s confusion about boosters.
Ironically, it took college writing professor Sequoi…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
After a thoughtful discussion regarding the pros and…
With COVID-19 case counts hitting historic highs acr…
Amid an increasing spread of COVID-19 infections among students and staff, St. Peter Public Schools converted the Jan. 13 school day into an at-home flexible learning day.
Just one month after the highly contagious omicron variant was detected in Minnesota, the state is staring down a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 infections. Last week, the state witnessed 10,000 new infections per day, the highest number of daily infections recorded throughout the pandemic.
Just one month after the highly contagious omicron variant was detected in Minnesota, the state is staring down a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 infections. Last week, the state witnessed 10,000 new infections per day, the highest number of daily infections recorded throughout the pandemic.
Close up of the face of senior female patient being …
In a message sent out by the school district to pare…
From the wide window on the north side of the Northf…
Across Minnesota, many schools are returning to distance learning and some restaurants are shuttering again, all because of yet another wave of COVID-19 because of the spread of the fast-spreading omicron variant.
Amid prolonged federal legal wrangling, Waseca Public Schools (WPS) is moving forward with a policy mandating its staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly laboratory testing and masking.
Minnesota’s post-holidays COVID-19 surge surfaced in a big way Tuesday. The latest numbers show the state is slammed again following a three-week December dip in cases. It’s here, it’s real and it’s clubbing the Twin Cities metro area.
Two frontline doctors at NH+C were asked to look bot…
Amid an ongoing pandemic where change has come too s…
‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, family gatherings…
‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, family gatherings and winter activities. This time of year is also referred to as “flu season.”
The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most inmates infected with COVID-19 of any federal correctional institution (FCI) in America. In fact, nearly half the inmates throughout the entire federal prison system who are actively infected with COVID-19 are located at FCI-Waseca.
The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most inmates infected with COVID-19 of any federal correctional institution (FCI) in America. In fact, nearly half the inmates throughout the entire federal prison system who are actively infected with COVID-19 are located at FCI-Waseca.
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday season are routine. This year’s blood shortage isn’t.
Counties across southern Minnesota witnessed year-highs in the spread of COVID-19 over the month of Thanksgiving.
Counties across southern Minnesota witnessed year-highs in the spread of COVID-19 over the month of Thanksgiving.
Legal wrangling has put the COVID-19 vaccine require…
Legal wrangling has put the COVID-19 vaccine require…
Legal wrangling has put the COVID-19 vaccine require…
Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 report shows some promising trends. Hospitalizations and intensive care needs are down significantly the past few days. The positive test rate is still high but down off its recent peak.
Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall’s delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks.
The omicron surge seems to be receding — in the Twin Cities, at least. But COVID-19 cases are still peaking in greater Minnesota, we’re learning about N95 masks as they’re adopted more widely and there’s confusion about boosters.
Ironically, it took college writing professor Sequoi…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
After a thoughtful discussion regarding the pros and…
With COVID-19 case counts hitting historic highs acr…
Amid an increasing spread of COVID-19 infections among students and staff, St. Peter Public Schools converted the Jan. 13 school day into an at-home flexible learning day.
Just one month after the highly contagious omicron variant was detected in Minnesota, the state is staring down a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 infections. Last week, the state witnessed 10,000 new infections per day, the highest number of daily infections recorded throughout the pandemic.
Just one month after the highly contagious omicron variant was detected in Minnesota, the state is staring down a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 infections. Last week, the state witnessed 10,000 new infections per day, the highest number of daily infections recorded throughout the pandemic.
Close up of the face of senior female patient being …
In a message sent out by the school district to pare…
From the wide window on the north side of the Northf…
Across Minnesota, many schools are returning to distance learning and some restaurants are shuttering again, all because of yet another wave of COVID-19 because of the spread of the fast-spreading omicron variant.
Amid prolonged federal legal wrangling, Waseca Public Schools (WPS) is moving forward with a policy mandating its staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly laboratory testing and masking.
Minnesota’s post-holidays COVID-19 surge surfaced in a big way Tuesday. The latest numbers show the state is slammed again following a three-week December dip in cases. It’s here, it’s real and it’s clubbing the Twin Cities metro area.
Two frontline doctors at NH+C were asked to look bot…
Amid an ongoing pandemic where change has come too s…
‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, family gatherings…
‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, family gatherings and winter activities. This time of year is also referred to as “flu season.”
The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most inmates infected with COVID-19 of any federal correctional institution (FCI) in America. In fact, nearly half the inmates throughout the entire federal prison system who are actively infected with COVID-19 are located at FCI-Waseca.
The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most inmates infected with COVID-19 of any federal correctional institution (FCI) in America. In fact, nearly half the inmates throughout the entire federal prison system who are actively infected with COVID-19 are located at FCI-Waseca.
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday season are routine. This year’s blood shortage isn’t.
Counties across southern Minnesota witnessed year-highs in the spread of COVID-19 over the month of Thanksgiving.
Counties across southern Minnesota witnessed year-highs in the spread of COVID-19 over the month of Thanksgiving.
Legal wrangling has put the COVID-19 vaccine require…
Legal wrangling has put the COVID-19 vaccine require…
Legal wrangling has put the COVID-19 vaccine require…