Jesse Branch died the day before Thanksgiving as a result of a two-vehicle crash. Branch was a 17-year veteran with the Red Lake Nation Department of Public Safety.
The Rochester Police Department said in a statement Wednesday that the burglars targeted five homes, mainly in the northwestern part of the city, between Nov. 13 and Dec. 3. All of the victims are of Asian descent.
On a unanimous vote, the city council appointed Hudda Ibrahim to fill a vacancy on the seven-member board. She replaces Jake Anderson, who was elected St. Cloud mayor last month.
Arn Kind turned his passion for the past into a second career making history entertaining and educational in school classrooms and small town libraries across Minnesota. From Vikings to the voyageurs to Vietnam, he delivers lessons like few others.
As of Nov. 5, 30 people have died in ATV crashes on Minnesota roads, ditches and trails in 2024. That number surpasses a previous high of 27 people killed in 2020.
Nicole Wallace’s love of steam powered engines began as a hobby. Today, she leads a global sisterhood of women with a passion for the vintage machines.
A jury in Fergus Falls took only about an hour to return verdicts of guilty on all charges to two men accused of human smuggling. The trial arose from the hypothermia deaths of a family from India who in January 2022 were directed to walk across the border from Canada into Minnesota during a bitterly cold snowstorm.
Researchers found adult walleye in lakes infested with zebra mussels had 72 percent higher mercury concentrations than in lakes without the invaders. Smaller walleye also were more likely to exceed mercury thresholds meant to protect human health.
For the past few weeks, there has been a distinctive rattling rising from the wetland around the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge, about an hour’s drive north of the Twin Cities metro. It’s the sound of thousands of sandhill cranes gathering to rest and feed before migrating south for the winter.
The first phase of the $1.1 billion Sherco Solar project was connected to the electrical grid in late October. When the next two phases are completed over the next two years, the project will produce enough energy to power about 150,000 homes.
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