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Southwire performs live in the studio

Southwire performs live in the studio

The Duluth-based band defies easy description.
by Marc Sanchez

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Video: Watch April snow melt, in 45 seconds

Video: Watch April snow melt, in 45 seconds

The seven inches of April snow that fell last week in St. Paul, Minn. didn't take long to melt with above average temperatures this weekend.
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Choo Choo Bob explains the Southwest light rail line conundrum

Choo Choo Bob explains the Southwest light rail line conundrum

Building light rail lines is a tough way to make friends. The Metropolitan Council has spent the last year looking for a way to make everyone along the planned Southwest light rail line happy. But everything the planners propose makes someone upset.
by Curtis Gilbert and Molly Bloom

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Rare legal twist pits one diocese against another

Rare legal twist pits one diocese against another

The Diocese of New Ulm is suing another diocese and a religious order, accusing both of sending a priest to New Ulm in the early 1980s without telling the diocese that the priest had a long history of being accused of child sexual abuse.
by Trisha Volpe

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Musician Claudia Schmidt performs live at MPR studios

Musician Claudia Schmidt performs live at MPR studios

For her latest album, "New Whirled Order," Schmidt tapped Prairie Home's Dean Magraw and Peter Ostroushko.

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The ice-breakers arrive in Duluth

The ice-breakers arrive in Duluth

Three Coast Guard ice breakers arrived in Duluth yesterday, sailing under the Aerial Lift Bridge in the closest sign of spring that we get around here anymore.
by Bob Collins

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Video: Island Station demolished

Island Station, an old coal-fired power plant on the Mississippi River, was imploded Sunday in St. Paul.
by Jennifer Simonson

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Video: Demolition, transformation at Ford plant site in St. Paul

Video: Demolition, transformation at Ford plant site in St. Paul

Nearly 10 months into the large-scale demolition of the former Ford Assembly plant in St. Paul, the site is starting to take shape as a prime piece of real estate ripe for development.
by Trisha Volpe

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Polar vortex hasn't chilled Minnesota's economy

Polar vortex hasn't chilled Minnesota's economy

Even though this winter's harsh weather has been tough on some people's bank accounts, others have benefited. So the nasty winter isn't having much of an effect on Minnesota's overall economy.
by Matt Sepic and Trisha Volpe

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