A plume of PFAS chemicals under the east metro is moving. The state has a plan to stop it.
Preliminary plans would include a broad and complex system of wells to control the underground flow.
After a bumper crop of new sales taxes approved in 2023, legislators look at limits
Legislators could rein in what kinds of projects can be paid for with sales taxes in the future.
Hennepin County paid $240K to settle former Sheriff Hutchinson's workers' comp claim
More than $47K from the settlement went to pay off county vehicle and guardrail destroyed in drunken driving crash.
Newspaper boxes repurposed as 'Save a Life' naloxone dispensaries
Jim Barrett and Andrew Kamin-Lyndgaard of Minneapolis created Little Free Libraries for naloxone and fentanyl testing strips as part of a growing effort to expand access to the overdose-reversing medicine.
Andover High School teacher leads effort for more understandable driver's tests
Amna Kiran took notice and pushed to change Minnesota law after a student failed multiple times in 2019.
Rep. Omar's daughter arrested, suspended from college for pro-Palestinian protests
Rep. Omar had questioned Columbia University's president about campus protests a day earlier.
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30 days in jail for ex-school choir director in northwestern Minnesota who sexually assaulted girl
Hopkins parents charged in 9-year-old daughter's asthma death
Four Minnesotans catch salmonella in outbreak linked to basil sold at Trader Joe's
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Former Hopkins basketball star transferring from Michigan to U
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Conservative lawmakers lead objections to Vista's deal to sell Federal ammunition to Czech firm
Burnsville woman's sinus surgery went great — until she got the $32,449 medical bill
Cargill to sell group of grain elevators to CHS Inc.
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