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Photos: Protesters and police face off in St. Paul
Police and demonstrators protesting the police shooting of Philando Castile spent tense hours together this week as officers broke up an encampment outside the Minnesota governor's residence and protesters took to the street.
This mall bought a bookstore to keep it open
The Village Bookstore has been a draw at a Grand Rapids, Minn., mall for more than three decades. The mall intends to keep it that way.
Designing neighborhoods to fend off heat waves
A group of researchers and urban planners met this week to discuss how to design a neighborhood in Minneapolis to make it more resilient to extreme heat.
Flooding threatens east-central Minnesota, days after statewide downpours
Storms of this magnitude are rare, but they've been happening more frequently in Minnesota in recent years. This is the sixth so-called "mega rain event" in the state since the year 2000.
From private collection to lending library: Quatrefoil grows as resource for LGBT community
A new exhibition opens at the Hennepin History Museum in Minneapolis Thursday night on the Quatrefoil Library, one of just a few LGBT lending libraries in the nation. Over the past 30 years, it's grown into a research center and community space.
Hundreds in Duluth comment on minerals mining near Boundary Waters
Around 500 people filled a "listening session" Wednesday held by the U.S. Forest Service on two controversial mining leases near the Boundary Waters.
You can now visit the Prince Online Museum
The website lets visitors explore the various websites that designers working with Prince created over the last 20 years.
Photos: A look back at the relentless heat wave of July 1936
This week marks the 80th anniversary of the start of Minnesota's worst heat wave. It was so bad that many people chose to sleep outside.