Greater Minnesota

Unsold wolf hunt permits going up for sale
More than 600 early season wolf hunting licenses will go up for sale next week after going unsold to winners of a lottery.
Businessman Jim Graves is new type of challenge for Bachmann
In the 6th District, it's better to be known to all, than not known at all. As a political newcomer taking on a three-term incumbent, Jim Graves is putting his career in business at the center of his campaign.
A southeastern Minnesota hog producer has agreed to pay a $14,000 penalty to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for pumping manure into a field that drained to a nearby creek.
The founder of Concordia College's Language Villages, a program that teaches foreign languages to thousands of students, has died at age 84.
Today is the annual sale by the Department of Natural Resources for leases to explore for copper, nickel, and other minerals in northeastern Minnesota.
Students concerned about voter ID
But supporters call claims false.
An injured worker is able to speak and move after an explosion Monday morning at a coal-fired power plant along the North Shore.
Authorities in central Minnesota say a man apparently shot and wounded his significant other before fatally shooting himself.
DNR studies wolf behavior as hunting season approaches
Minnesota's first-ever managed wolf hunt gets underway in about two weeks, barring a successful legal challenge that could stop the hunt. The opportunity to learn about wolves and their behavior brings the Department of Natural Resources to Sampson to Itasca State Park.
Duluth looks into fixing 16 flood-damaged streams
Duluth is shifting its focus from basic infrastructure damaged by this June's floods to the area's 16 trout streams and officials don't expect the fix to be cheap.