Advocacy organizations, state agencies, counties, cities and residents have weighed in with strong opinions on the resource plan, which requires approval by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.

With new and active cases and hospital admissions trending at or near their 14-month lows, Minnesota’s most recent COVID-19 data paints a picture of a rapidly shrinking pandemic. Vaccinations, however, are stuck at crawl.

Florida fire teams worked through the night in hopes of finding survivors in the Miami-area building collapse that has left 159 people missing. Officials fear the death toll may skyrocket.

Allina Health says the flu shot will be mandatory for all employees, starting this flu season. The new policy will also include students, contracted staff and volunteers across the Allina Health system, which includes more than 90 clinics, 11 hospitals and 15 retail pharmacies throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin

Health officials around the world announced this week further restrictions as they see clusters of outbreaks due to the delta variant of the coronavirus.

The vice president has faced months of criticism from members of both parties for declining to make the trip thus far and for her muddied explanations as to why.

Despite the agreement, the lawmakers said "there is still more work to be done on the final bill."

That's the decision she's made over and over since a medical treatment left her paralyzed in 2008. Now she's getting ready for the Paralympics in Tokyo.

Overdose deaths among Black Americans surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. In St. Louis, deaths among Black people increased last year at three times the rate of whites, skyrocketing more than 33 percent.

Already a month late, the Legislature plodded along in its approval of a state budget with agreements reached in all but one key area.

The president cautioned that the bipartisan deal wouldn't be enacted without a separate proposal moving along with just Democratic support.

An appeals court has suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race.

Leaders of Indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday investigators have found more than 600 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children — a discovery that follows last month's report of 215 bodies found at another school.

After Senate Republicans blocked a bill to create an outside independent commission to investigate the attacks on the U.S. Capitol Pelosi said a special panel needed to lead an investigation.

A man found with 67 guns and a cache of high-capacity ammunition magazines in his pickup truck near Fergus Falls has pleaded guilty to federal firearms charges.

The delta variant spreads more easily, but it's not clear yet whether it makes people sicker. It has been found in more than 80 countries since it was first detected in India and is responsible for 20 percent of infections in the U.S.

People are leaving their jobs in search of more money, more flexibility and more happiness. A record 4 million workers quit just in April.

President Joe Biden’s plan focuses on keeping guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them as well as provides help for intervention and prevention efforts.