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Show Love 4 One Another: How to celebrate Prince this weekend
All weekend, fans of Prince can celebrate his life and music on his birthday on June 7. The event will mark what would have been Prince’s 68th birthday.
Feds propose housing ICE detainees in western Minnesota private prison
The Department of Homeland Security has posted a proposed contract for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use a private prison facility in western Minnesota to hold up to 1,600 immigrant detainees.
Three Minnesota literary organizations receive major national grant 
The Literary Arts Fund announced Thursday that the Loft Literary Center, Graywolf Press and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop are among 40 recipients that will share $7.7 million.
After 50 years, musician Deb Jenkins is still finding ways to make Fargo-Moorhead more vibrant
Whether as a nurse, chef, musician or community member, Deb Jenkins has contributed to the Fargo-Moorhead community in many ways. During a live taping of Minnesota Now, we spoke to Jenkins about what makes the area so special to her.
Farming is a community endeavor for this Moorhead-area producer
Noreen Thomas and her family produce vegetables, flowers, grains, eggs and seeds near Moorhead. Doubting Thomas Farms also includes producers raising honeybees, grazing cattle and harvesting herbs. And Thomas mentors other women in agriculture.
Fowzia Adde turns to her refugee experience to help other immigrants thrive in Moorhead
Fowzia Adde founded the Immigrant Development Center to help other immigrants find jobs and settle in the region. She was inspired by her own struggle to transfer her nursing credentials into a career in the Red River Valley after spending seven years in a refugee camp in Kenya.