Greater Minnesota

Corps raises 100-year flood estimate for Fargo-Moorhead
The new estimate was based on the amount of water flowing through the Red River, how often it floods and how high the water rises as it flows through the cities.
Facebook racism incident  raises diversity issues at UMD
The University of Minnesota Duluth campus is returning to normal after an uproar over a Facebook conversation in which two young white women mocked an African-American student in the same room.
Cost-cutting measures helped Arctic Cat reduce losses, despite weak sales throughout the industry, according to company officials.
North Dakota's congressional delegation says new information from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicates the Fargo-Moorhead area would suffer greater damages from flooding than previously thought.
In White Earth, breaking the cycle of domestic violence
A $700,000 federal grant will pay for a domestic violence investigator and expand a victims' advocacy program. The money also will fund a new women's shelter on the White Earth reservation this year.
State officials will lift open burning restrictions for most of central and northwestern Minnesota on Wednesday, as recent wet and snowy weather has reduced the risk of wildfires.
Scattered rains slowed fieldwork across Minnesota over the past week.
Fire destroys 2 buildings in Wheaton
Fire departments from five communities are battling a blaze that's destroyed two buildings in the main business district of a west central Minnesota city.