Greater Minnesota

Audit calls out Iron Range board on losses, loans, governance
The state agency charged with boosting Minnesota's Iron Range economy has spent millions subsidizing losses at its Giants Ridge resort and has fallen short overseeing the loans it makes, a legislative audit said Friday.
Broadband demands rise in Minnesota, but who'll pay the bill?
Sharp differences are emerging over how Minnesota leaders will spread high-speed Internet to more households and businesses around the state. The key question: How much of the budget surplus will they spend?
Today, across Minnesota: Democracy, township-style
Tuesday is Township Day in Minnesota, when many of the state's 1,781 townships will host elections and decide their tax levels for the next year.
Two Leech Lake tribe members appeared in Beltrami County District Court for killing a deer on private land.
PolyMet gets Minnesota's OK to proceed on massive copper mine
The state Department of Natural Resources said Thursday it gave its final blessing to the complex environmental analysis of the PolyMet mine, paving the way for the company to begin applying for permits.
With feds' blessing, Minnesota to try growing hemp
Minnesota farmers this spring will be able to legally plant hemp for the first time in more than half a century. But while there's interest, expectations are low.
Minnesota Department of Human Rights officials will talk to parents tonight about finding that a Hibbing High administrator inappropriately asked female students about sexual abuse, birth control, sexuality and personal relationships.