Speeding drivers targeted in statewide summer traffic enforcement campaign

A statewide summer traffic enforcement campaign is now underway with officers, deputies and troopers across Minnesota placing extra attention on speeding drivers. The campaign is also targeting distracted and impaired driving, as well as seat belt use.

Minnesota is commissioning a study on nuclear energy after state lawmakers recently approved funding. The state has had a moratorium on new nuclear plants for more than three decades. Advocates of nuclear power say it's a reliable energy source that could help utilities meet the state goal of carbon-free electricity by 2040.

Minnesota lawmakers approved $3 million to help colleges fight student enrollment fraud. College administrators call the fake enrollments “ghost students.”

The head of the Native American Community Clinic says a new affordable housing and health center project currently under construction in south Minneapolis is designed as an indigenous space.

Players of the unique Hmong sport tuj lub hope more people give the time-honored sport a spin. A recent two-day tournament in Maplewood brought in local players and teams from as far as Oklahoma and Colorado.

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Minnesota lawmakers agree to study possibility of building new nuclear plants

South Minneapolis Native American clinic and housing set to open in September

Tuj lub players want more Minnesotans to give the Hmong sport a whirl

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