The great outdoors, as we heard at a community conversation at the Blandin Foundation, is a key reason why people choose to live in Grand Rapids. The discussion revolved around why people choose Grand Rapids, what they worry about and celebrate in daily life, and what issues they believe leaders should focus on.
Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.
Representatives for Enbridge addressed the commission first, adding new commitments in an effort to get a Certificate of Need from the state.
State regulators are holding hearings this week as they make final decisions on whether to let Enbridge Energy build its controversial oil pipeline replacement.
Hundreds of people gathered in Minneapolis for a pair of rallies on Sunday to protest the treatment of immigrants at the U.S. border - in particular the federal policy that is leading to children being separated from their parents.
House Democrats converged on an immigration detention facility in New Jersey on Sunday, as the Trump administration continued to shift blame for the growing controversy.
They condemn a border practice of tearing children away from their parents. It is an attempt to "weaponize children," Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski told NPR's Weekend Edition.
With billboards, TV ads and mass mailings, the groups facing off over the Line 3 oil pipeline project in Minnesota are setting up for what could be a long, emotional fight, beginning with a key decision later this month at the Public Utilities Commission.
The separations were not broken down by age, and included separations for illegal entry, immigration violations or possible criminal conduct by the adult.
Casa Padre is a former Walmart Super Center converted into living, recreation and dining quarters for 1,469 immigrant boys ages 10 to 17.
The ACLU is suing the city of Faribault over a housing ordinance. ACLU lawyers say the city tried to force out Somali immigrants and African-Americans.
Isiah Wright, 15, left his home June 8 after a disagreement with his mother, who hasn't heard from him and authorities are concerned for his welfare, Roseville police said Tuesday.
All over the country, people are moving to camps in the woods, climbing trees, chaining themselves to bulldozers, all in the name of stopping oil pipelines. What's going on? Why is there suddenly a dramatic conflict around pipelines? And is it really even about pipelines at all?
Cotton was the education director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. She focused on empowering ordinary people to exercise their rights.
Judge Alison J. Nathan has stopped the deportation of Ecuadorean immigrant Pablo Villavicencio Calderon until at least July 20. He was detained on June 1 while delivering food to a Brooklyn Army base.
Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer spoke with Sue Abderholden, director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness for Minnesota, about how Minnesotans can identify and seek help for depression — and how the media should cover suicide.
"The goal here is to keep our city safe," Chief Medaria Arradondo said. "But the goal is we also want to contribute to the hope that so many in our community, and especially our African-American males, are not experiencing at this time."
Poet Gregorgy Pardlo's new memoir, "Air Traffic," tells the story of how his family transformed after his father lost his job and descended into chaos.
A scathing treatise on one woman's life raises the question of whether one should speak ill of the dead in an obituary, and who's responsible when they do.
A group of East African workers claim that the Amazon warehouse in Eagan is not conducive to its Muslim workforce. Amazon denied those claims.