With Minnesota's near-record jobless rate and more openings than people looking for work, there's new opportunity for people who've historically had the hardest time landing jobs — people with criminal records.
Santa Larry made headlines in 2016 when he made his debut, because he was the first-ever African-American Santa at the Mall of America. While black and Hispanic Santas are common in other parts of the country, they're not in Minnesota.
The U.S. government says rising ocean temperatures and melting ice have resulted in the "most unprecedented transition in history" in the Arctic, leading to extreme weather events across the globe.
The president's former personal lawyer is going to prison. A Russian woman is set to plead guilty to acting as a foreign agent. A former Trump national security adviser will soon learn his fate too.
With government shelters across the country nearing capacity, officials are considering a range of options from releasing the children more quickly to building more tent cities.
Plus, Art Hounds recommend a bilingual performance of Handel's Messiah and a dance concert set to the soundtrack of "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate.
Prosecutors say the national ring victimized hundreds of women from Thailand.
After an explosion and massive fire at the Husky Energy refinery in Superior, Wis., in April, residents of Superior and Duluth are calling for the end of the use of a hazardous chemical used at the plant called hydrogen fluoride.
Colin Covert says his borrowing of phrases from other writers constitutes "fair use."
In addition to revolutionizing how the world writes, Berezin also developed the first computer system for making airline reservations.
A proposal that Secretary of State Steve Simon will put before lawmakers would shield party preference for the 2020 presidential primary. He's also seeking to institute an election exclusively by mail.
Tribune Publishing secretly started to pay more than $2.5 million to a fired news executive to settle a lawsuit. It sought to keep a slur by controlling owner Michael Ferro from becoming public.
J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director for Minnesota-based Fresh Energy, tells MPR News about the state's presence at international climate change talks in Poland.
Dozens of retired state and federal judges called Wednesday on U.S. immigration officials to stop making arrests at courthouses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.
Federal officials at the U.N. climate meeting are ignoring climate science and touting coal and fossil fuels. But local and state authorities pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their own.
A hot job market and skepticism about law enforcement are making it harder for police departments across the country to replace officers who are retiring.
The rule likely won't have significant impact in Minnesota, where state regulations of wetlands and other water bodies have been in place for decades. Here's a breakdown of the proposal and what it might mean for the state.
The personal information of hundreds of Ramsey County social services clients might have been compromised after hackers gained access to the email accounts of dozens of county employees.
Two black men killed by police recently in Alabama and Illinois are described by protesters as 'good guys with guns.' Police trainers say there are steps departments can take to help prevent deaths.