The woman, whose name hasn’t been released, was found dead in a home in the city’s Frogtown neighborhood. Two of her children were found unharmed in another room.

Famed Argentine-American architect Cesar Pelli, known for designing some of the world's tallest and most iconic buildings — including several works in Minnesota — has died. He was 92.

When is someone too old to drive? It depends, but there’s help for people trying to confront that question.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is taking a zero-tolerance approach to the invasive Palmer amaranth plant, trying to prevent potentially significant financial losses for farmers.

A semi carrying potatoes lost its cargo Saturday morning along Interstate 494 in the southeast Twin Cities metro area, causing a shutdown of the westbound lanes for more than four hours.

Simba’s mom would be running the show at Pride Rock, not Mufasa. Scar and Mufasa feuding? In reality, they'd been teaming up to survive, the head of the University of Minnesota Lion Center tells MPR News. Here’s our fact-based buzzkill.

Artist Jonathan Herrera Soto printed 200 faces of Mexican journalists — all murdered or missing and presumed dead — on the floor of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In coming months he expects the portraits will wear away, but raise questions about the nature of truth.

Even as temperatures swelter into the 90s across much of the state, snowboarders and skiers can still find a small refuge to ride in northeastern Minnesota.

Spy world veteran Shelby Pierson will attempt to centralize election security efforts across the intelligence community with soon-to-be-designated agency leads.

A criminal complaint charging Ruslan Maratovich Asainov was unsealed in New York City; prosecutors say he was a sniper and weapons trainer for the Islamic State in Syria. 

More than 3,100 are moving out of the Bureau of Prisons system on Friday and the Justice Department is making other changes to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it has seized a British oil tanker that was passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

At 10 years old, these hounds have learned some new tricks.

Another top administrator in the administration of Tim Walz resigned Friday, this time in the Department of Corrections. 

Acting Human Services Commissioner Pam Wheelock told MPR News on Friday there are  no “smoking gun” issues in the wake of the resignation of commissioner Tony Lourey, and that she's focused on providing stability.

Critics complain that the systems turn neighborhoods into places of constant surveillance and create suspicion that falls heavier on minorities. Police say the cameras can serve as a digital neighborhood watch.

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When you have a serious health problem that calls for surgery, the last thing you need is the stress of navigating the health care system to find a skilled surgeon. We have tips to make it easier.

Some of the people struggling the most to pay back their debt are the millions of students who took out student loans but never finished a degree.