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Minnesota awarded the PolyMet mining company the permits it needs to begin construction on what would become the state’s first copper-nickel mine. Since then, the project has been mired in court battles, over the permits themselves, and how the state issued them. Tuesday begins another chapter.

After sitting unseen and largely forgotten for more than a quarter century, a trove of images taken by a Minnesota photographer in the 1940s and 1950s are on display in a new museum exhibit in Winona.

Twin Cities artist Matt Allen, known on stage as Nur-D, moved to Rosemount from the Bronx as a child. He told The Current he was a nerd as a kid and didn’t think hip-hop was for him. But then he started rapping about two years ago, and he quickly hit it big.

Minneapolis has planted hundreds of trees in the past few years in an effort to green up downtown, but many aren't surviving past their first year. City staff have been trying to figure out why, and they think they might have found the culprit: salt.

Legislators who work on education issues are gearing up to address some of the most pressing problems they see facing Minnesota schools, including mental health, early childhood education, career and technical education and the opportunity gap.

Here in the Twin Cities, there's a tribute concert Friday at the Turf Club in St. Paul. You're out of luck if you're looking for tickets, though. It's sold out.

Some Minneapolis voters camped out in an RV to be the first in line for early voting Friday. Others gathered in Duluth and Minneapolis to celebrate their candidates.

Even after the snow slows Saturday, blowing winds will create dangerous driving conditions across the state.

For the next month, visitors on Lake Harriet can enjoy installations and performances of more than 100 artists — on the ice. And every Sunday, it will feature the “world’s only tiny art car parade on ice.”

At Theatre 55, people get to play parts they thought were outside their range.