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A single large data center can use millions of gallons of water a day, as much as thousands of homes. But pinpointing exactly how many are being built and how much water they’ll use can be a challenge, even for state regulators.
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In celebration of Black History Month in February, MPR News is highlighting Black history throughout the state. From a fur trader believed to be one of the first African descendants in a territory that is now Minnesota, to streets and parks renamed in 2024 after Black community leaders, these sites span the state and the centuries.
Whether they’re conservative or liberal, people in Ely seem to agree on one thing: they love the Boundary Waters. What they can’t seem to agree on, though, is whether copper-nickel mining would endanger those beloved lakes.
The law would require all elementary and middle schools to prohibit cell phones and high schools to restrict cell phone usage in classrooms.
Vance will likely use the summits to resist further AI regulation while reiterating a common Trump refrain: that military allies need to further ramp up spending that supports NATO and Ukraine.
An initial hearing of a fraud prevention committee in the Minnesota House was a first order of business for Republicans with their newly recognized chamber control. House power may go back to evenly split after a March special election, but the GOP will have control of this committee for the next two years.
An Einstein Ring was discovered by the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope in September 2023.
Becker County Attorney Brian McDonald added a second burglary charge Monday against state Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, stemming from an incident in April 2024 in Detroit Lakes. Both charges are felonies.
The binding ruling issued Monday granted Lore, an e-commerce entrepreneur and investor, and Rodriguez, the former Major League Baseball star, a 90-day extension to finish the acquisition.
Federal prosecutors allege that Aimee Bock was the ringleader of a $250 million scheme to defraud taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs during the pandemic and that Said’s restaurant siphoned $16 million of that.
After a long and sometimes heated discussion Monday afternoon, the Minneapolis City Council agreed to move forward with a controversial proposal to shift around $1.2 million to Hennepin County so that it can temporarily take over the management of two city violence prevention programs.
Hospitals and clinics that have offered gender-affirming treatments to transgender youth reacted in a variety of ways to an executive order that aims to halt the care.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Pete Sessions, co-chair of the House DOGE Caucus, on how he plans to work with the Department of Government Efficiency.
