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Just thinking about a broken air conditioning unit on a hot summer day is enough to make you sweat. So what if your air conditioner does break down? Here are some simple tricks to fix it before calling in the professionals.
For the first time, more than 20,000 teenagers from around the world are in Minneapolis for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Youth Gathering. From the food to the fun to the fellowship, the party is in Minneapolis this weekend-- but they came from all over.
Over the past 30 years, almost three billion people have been added to Earth. Another two billion are expected in the next 30.
Sixty-six-year-old Ronald C. Carlson struck an unoccupied parked vehicle while riding his motorcycle Wednesday night in Center City, the Chisago County Sheriff's Office said. Carlson was pronounced dead at the emergency room after first responders performed CPR at the scene.
A propane truck rolled over in Orange Township, Minnesota around 6 a.m. Thursday, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said. The liquid propane delivery truck driver was taken to Alomere Hospital in Alexandria with non-life threatening injuries.
University of Wisconsin System officials plan to create workgroups to develop recommendations on how to better serve students with mental health needs. The system says student visits to campus counseling centers have increased 55% since 2010. According to data from the National College Health Assessment, 23% of system students reported begin diagnosed with or treated for depression in 2015 and 27% reported being diagnosed with or treated for anxiety.
A federal judge will let a jury decide a lawsuit against Grinnell College that challenges the way the Iowa school handles sexual misconduct complaints.
A 15-year-old boy was found unresponsive in an apartment pool Thursday morning, the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office says. The boy was pulled from the pool on the 1300 block of 10th Street Northwest in New Brighton.
The picturesque Root River was pushed a good 10 feet above normal, making it too dangerous for a gentle trip downstream by canoe, kayak or tube. For those who depend on the tourism it brings, it's been a tough couple weeks.
One south Minneapolis neighborhood is giving residents as much as $100 to help keep their homes and businesses secure. The Armatage neighborhood, which is just south of Lake Harriet, has a security rebate program to encourage people to buy security devices for their homes.
The swimming beach at Lake McCarroons County Park closed Wednesday after recent testing found high levels of the bacteria.
"The Pledge of Allegiance to our great Country, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, is under siege. That is why I am going to win the Great State of Minnesota in the 2020 Election. People are sick and tired of this stupidity and disloyalty to our wonderful USA!"
President Donald Trump announced that he plans to sign an executive order that deals with the collection of citizenship information, but the order will not involve the 2020 census. Instead, he ordered all federal government agencies and departments are to provide information they have to the Commerce Department.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison settled a lawsuit Thursday against Premera Blue Cross, an insurance company allegedly responsible for a May 2015 data breach of more than 38,000 Minnesotans, Ellison's office said.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has asked the Trump administration for a federal declaration of emergency ahead of Tropical Storm Barry's expected landfall late Friday or early Saturday along the state's coast.
