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Art Hounds: Fiber art at MIA, a multimedia premiere in Rochester and surreal sisterhood onstage

Art Hounds: Fiber art at MIA, a multimedia premiere in Rochester and surreal sisterhood onstage

Art Hounds recommend an immersive fiber arts exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a multimedia film premiere in Rochester and a surreal new play at Mixed Blood Theatre.
by Emily Bright

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Greg Bovino, Border Patrol chief on site during Minneapolis ICE shooting

Greg Bovino, Border Patrol chief on site during Minneapolis ICE shooting

Border Patrol typically only has legal authority within 100 miles of the U.S. border. MPR News host Clay Masters spoke with legal scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández about that agency’s jurisdiction in Minnesota.
by Clay Masters and Gretchen Brown

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Accusations fly in GOP-led congressional hearing into Minnesota fraud cases

Minnesota’s reckoning with social services program fraud landed in a congressional hearing Wednesday. Republicans accused DFL Gov. Tim Walz of being complicit or unresponsive. Democrats called it a political exercise that ignores President Donald Trump’s pardons of convicted fraudsters.
by Peter Cox

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Brimson Strong: How a plucky chicken named Reba inspired hope after a devastating fire

Brimson Strong: How a plucky chicken named Reba inspired hope after a devastating fire

In the spring of 2025, the Camp House Fire burned more than 12,000 acres of northern Minnesota forest, destroying about 200 homes, cabins and other buildings in and around the small town of Brimson. But amid the destruction, Reba the chicken survived, and her story is helping rebuild the community.
by Dan Kraker

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Audit finds weak oversight, fraud risk in DHS grants

Audit finds weak oversight, fraud risk in DHS grants

The findings in a new report by the Office of the Legislative Auditor say the Behavioral Health Administration within the Department of Human Services is failing to provide adequate oversight to disburse grant funding.
by Ellie Roth

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Governor unbound: Freed from reelection niceties, Walz comes out swinging at Trump, GOP

Governor unbound: Freed from reelection niceties, Walz comes out swinging at Trump, GOP

A day after announcing he’d end his bid for reelection, Gov. Tim Walz ripped President Trump, said he’d spend his last year in office working to “protect the well-being of Minnesotans” and told local GOP lawmakers to “put up or shut up” on helping the state.
by Dana Ferguson

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