Greater Minnesota

April 1, 2014 4:00 AM

Duluth is adding jobs, but running out of housing

The need for more housing has increased as Duluth's unemployment rate has shrunk to pre-recession levels. The city's rental vacancy rate is less than two percent, half of what housing experts consider a healthy rate. Other towns far from the Twin Cities metro area face similar dilemmas, from Roseau and Thief River Falls to Worthington.

by Dan Kraker

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March 28, 2014 2:33 PM

Car pulled back after hanging from Rochester parking ramp

Fire officials and tow truck operators had to pull back a car that had ended up suspended from the seventh floor of a parking ramp in eastern Minnesota.

by The Associated Press

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March 26, 2014 2:47 PM

Farmers, elevators fume at costly grain train delays; oil trains to blame?

Train delays have been chronic all winter across the Midwest. BNSF blames delays on winter weather and significant increases in rail traffic hauling containers, trucks, coal and crude oil from the booming Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota.

by Dan Gunderson

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March 24, 2014 11:40 AM

Spike in flood insurance premiums hits Roseau hard

In Roseau, some 241 owners of businesses and second homes are still facing premium increases of 25 percent a year until they give up their subsidies and start paying rates based on actual flood risks.

by Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

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March 24, 2014 11:35 AM

Semi driver survives train crash in Minn.

A 43-year-old truck driver suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Sanford Health in Bemidji late Sunday afternoon.

by The Associated Press

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March 21, 2014 11:55 AM

Judge rejects seizure of walleyes without warrant

A judge says prosecutors can't use fish seized in a warrantless search as evidence against a couple who live on Mille Lacs Lake.

by The Associated Press

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March 21, 2014 11:11 AM

Student-athlete's death due to hypothermia

Michael Anyasike, 18, was reported missing 12 hours after sheriff's deputies responded to a report of an underage drinking party March 9 at a farm near Madison.

by The Associated Press

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March 20, 2014 1:31 PM

Court won't hear challenge to Little Falls murder indictment

Byron Smith wanted the court to review a decision by a Morrison County judge who let stand a grand jury indictment on two counts of first-degree murder in the 2012 deaths of 17-year-old Nicholas Brady and 18-year-old Haile Kifer.

by The Associated Press