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The Legislature and Gov. Tim Pawlenty are making progress on a health care funding bill for the state's poorest adults, so the state's largest safety net hospital is waiting on one planned cost-cutting move.
A group of University of Minnesota students defied the spring break stereotypes and used their free time to help others.
A man who climbed over a fourth-floor railing of the Mall of America rotunda has fallen to his death.
Carver County tax records show that Prince's PRN Music Corp. alone owes more than $227,000 for 2009 taxes to the state, Chaska School District and other government bodies. The county is just southwest of Minneapolis.
A St. Paul man who was driving a Toyota in a crash that killed three people has asked a judge for a new trial.
The St. Paul school board is considering $33 million in budget cuts, including reducing administrative costs, closing buildings and changing school boundaries.
A bill facing the Minnesota Legislature aims to make it easier for people get public records online.
The Speaker of the Minnesota House says her chamber could vote as early as Wednesday on a bill to restore funding for a health insurance program for the poor.
Wisconsin lawmakers want to study resuming a tax reciprocity agreement with neighboring Minnesota.
Say you're a patron of the arts and you enjoy listening to up-and-coming musicians. Would you go see a concert inspired by a piece of architecture?