Hundreds of homes in flood-prone areas of Fargo-Moorhead are gone: bought, removed and replaced by permanent flood levees. But there are a few holdouts who feel strongly about staying near the river, even as the threat of another flood looms. PLUS: Eyeing the melt in Marshall, Minn.
Following the school's abrupt closing, more than a dozen colleges in Minnesota say they are working with Argosy students who need to find a way to continue their education. But some students were pursuing degrees in fields so specific, that there might not be any local transfer options for their programs.
When Gov. Tim Walz hits the road, some of his destinations lately are carefully chosen to put pressure on Republicans who will determine the fate of his key proposals. It's a tactic that Republicans warn will backfire.
Minnesota is among the fastest warming states, and Minnesota's winters are warming faster than its other seasons. Data show that since 1970, Minnesota's winters have warmed at an average rate of 1.1 degrees per decade -- that's more than five times faster than the rate of winter warming in previous years.
Master baker Danny Klecko's St. Agnes Bakery was the official bread supplier for the Super Bowl and they had a huge number of orders. Then ICE informed him that 23 of his staff, many of whom he had worked with for two decades, had failed an immigration audit, and would have to leave.
An increasingly tight labor market was not enough to prevent the growth of Minnesota's homeless population since 2015.
Don't follow men's college basketball? Feeling left out of the NCAA tournament fun? MPR News assistant producer Jeffrey Bissoy has you covered. Here's his non-fanatics guide to this year's Big Dance.
Plus, Art Hounds recommend Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" and a festival of cover bands.
St. Paul police are investigating a crash near the Cathedral of St. Paul that killed a pedestrian early Thursday morning.
"There's really no common sense attached when able-bodied people approach disabled people," says activist Imani Barbarin, who started the hashtag.
A week after Cyclone Idai hit coastal Mozambique and swept across the country to Zimbabwe, the death, damage and flooding continues in southern Africa, making it one of the most destructive natural disasters in the region's recent history.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday that the government will ban "military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles" to avert "the kind of horror and attack that we saw on Friday."
Say your friend asks you to make a wedding cake. Are you qualified? Probably not. Should you do it? Amy Thielen is here to say: Yes! Absolutely!
Civil rights and faith leaders are demanding a meeting with the FBI director. The message: time to prioritize white nationalist violence.
In a Mississippi death-penalty case, the justices were skeptical of the way the state picked and dismissed black jurors and appeared ready not to uphold the conviction.
A judge has blocked oil and gas drilling on almost 500 square miles in Wyoming. The order marks the latest in a string of court rulings over the past decade faulting the government's consideration of emissions when issuing energy leases.
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension have identified the three people found dead in northwestern Minnesota as a mother and her two young children.
The analytics entrenched in baseball and other sports are meeting the swept ice, thrown stones and hammers of curling. The turn-based game on ice is primed for data derived strategies.
After a deadly white supremacist rally in 2017, once-marginalized voices in Charlottesville, Va., are demanding to be heard by the City Council. That has led to a debate over civility.
Some of the least-known but most important figures in the Russia investigation and its aftermath are the women who preside over its headline-grabbing cases.