After years of delay, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a rule last year requiring Minnesota’s taconite industry to cut its mercury emissions. Now the Trump administration is giving facilities at least two more years to comply.

This week, 550 athletes are in Minneapolis for the National Veterans Wheelchair Games — the world’s largest wheelchair sport and rehabilitation event for military veterans. Each year, a new sport is chosen to exhibit. For Minnesota, it’s axe throwing.

Tribal radio stations across the country, including three in northern Minnesota, will lose significant dollars after Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding recission.

Three Democratic-led states that led the way in offering free health care to low-income people who are in the U.S. without legal permission are either limiting or ending the programs because of significant budget concerns.

A Minneapolis fan convention called “The Uncanny Experience” transformed the historic Minneapolis Club into the X-Men’s Xavier Institute, offering immersive cosplay, storytelling, and community-building for fans who connect deeply with the X-Men’s themes of outsider identity, found family, and empowerment through shared weirdness.

Professors at universities and colleges across the state say one of the best ways to understand climate change is simple: reading.