Banning State Park near Sandstone is a popular destination for hikers, campers, paddlers and climbers — and its popularity has been growing. Park officials say annual visitor numbers have tripled since 2020.
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Final rallies lead into organized door knocks to get possible voters to polls before Tuesday night. More than 886,000 ballots are already in, and that could climb considerably in a final day of early voting.
As Election Day nears and political rhetoric targeting Somali Minnesotans ramps up, local mosques are ramping up security and mobilizing their communities to vote.
The Truth Council released its preliminary report on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement surge, describing a violent and discriminatory operation.
The past two years have been tough for farmers facing trade disruptions and rising costs. With the midterm elections approaching, MPR News asked farmers what’s on their minds as they head to the polls.
High school students in the Anoka-Hennepin School District now have the option to learn the Ojibwe language for credit. The new class is offered at Coon Rapids and Anoka High Schools in the district.
Progress on cleaning up Lake Okabena shows small improvements, but there’s no silver bullet for correcting decades-long water quality problems.
Minnesota’s secretary of state says in addition to election monitors sent by the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. House Democrats are sending election observers to Hennepin and Olmsted counties.
For the first six games of the season, the Minnesota Vikings were able to count on their top-tier defense to bail out an inconsistent offense. As a result, the Vikings went into Detroit at 6-0 — the last undefeated team in the NFL.
An NPR investigation finds that more than 15,000 military veterans were put into much-higher-cost home loans after the Trump administration cut a key program. Many now pay $1,000 more per month.
Jerry Koosman, an All-Star pitcher from Appleton, Minn., who secured the final out for the Miracle Mets in the 1969 World Series and also pitched for the Minnesota Twins, died Sunday in Osceola, Wis., after battling multiple illnesses for about a year.
More than 700,000 Minnesotans have voted already in person, by mail or through an absentee ballot ahead of Election Day.
The upbeat assessment marks a shift from August, when Canada walked away from negotiations after rejecting U.S. demands that Carney said threatened Canadian sovereignty, French-language protections and the auto industry.
