The chairs of Minnesota’s two largest political parties are in a face-off over whether more restrictions are needed over the information Minnesotans provide to the parties when they vote in the upcoming presidential primary election.

In the third day of an unusual court hearing investigating alleged “procedural irregularities” in the way a mine permit was issued, former MPCA Commissioner John Linc Stine testified his agency asked the EPA to delay submitting critical comments because his staff was stretched too thin responding to other comments.

Authorities are investigating a hit-and-run crash that injured an Edina High School student boarding a school bus Thursday morning.

A Minneapolis Public Schools program places therapists in schools so students in need can more easily make their appointments. Research suggests the benefits of this model go way beyond mental health.

Some residents of the destroyed Minneapolis apartment building had problems finding places to live before the fire. And those hurdles remain as they move from the temporary shelter at First Covenant Church

The former mayor of New York was in Minneapolis to open the first of what he says will be eight campaign offices in Minnesota.

Authorities say about 115 residents of a Fargo nursing home have been evacuated after a fire burned through the roof of the building. No injures were reported.

A move by the Trump administration to allow 3D-printed gun files to be released on the internet would make it easier for terrorists and criminals to access weapons, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Thursday in filing a multi-state lawsuit trying to block the data.

Plymouth-based Dominium says financing is expected to fall into place. But costs for the 200-unit apartment project are soaring.

His friends and colleagues said for 60 years, Edwards put his words to action.

Minnesota health officials are reporting the first child death of the flu season. According to the Minnesota Department of Health's weekly influenza and respiratory illness report, a total of 31 people in the state have died of the flu so far this season.

A new illness is spreading throughout China and other parts of the world, including one confirmed case in the U.S. As airports ramp up screening efforts, public health experts question if they help.

A host of the nightly PBS "NewsHour" that for decades offered a thoughtful take on current events has died. Jim Lehrer was 85.

The Trump administration has published new visa rules aimed at restricting a practice known as “birth tourism." That refers to cases when women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can have U.S. citizenship.

The controversial rule change will dramatically reduce federal pollution protections for many streams and wetlands. Farmers and builders welcome that, but environmental groups plan to challenge it.

Metro Transit says two men exchanged words as the train left the Mall of America station early Thursday and one man stabbed the other.

A new survey of 10,000 Americans finds 61 percent of us are lonely. Young people, men and those new at their jobs are some of the hardest hit.

This week on Art Hounds: winter kite-flying, artsy sleds, fish prints and the town of Ely celebrates the work of a local illustrator, Gail de Marcken.