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The scientific report, which was produced by 13 federal agencies, describes an American future that is nothing short of apocalyptic due to rising threats from climate change.
A day after a massive home explosion in St. Paul, businesses near St. Paul's Railroad Island neighborhood are just beginning to assess the damage. Surveillance video shows the massive explosion that happened at 8:32 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Payne Avenue and Edgerton Street.
The trial for a former University of Minnesota basketball player accused of murder in Baltimore has ended in a hung jury. The Star Tribune reports that a mistrial was declared in the case of Daquein McNeil, who played for the Gophers for one season. A second trial is scheduled for February. McNeil is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 59-year-old Charles Brewer in June of 2017.
A study has determined that nearly 500 landslides have happened in the Mankato area. Minnesota State University Earth Science Programs Director Phillip Larson with the help of students mapped out the area's ravines, bluffs, nooks and crannies during the past three years. Their work determined where landslides have occurred, and what areas are more at risk for them.
One new factor cyber monday shoppers might encounter this year: sales tax. In June, the United States Supreme Court gave states the go-ahead to collect sales tax on online purchases. That includes Minnesota, which began enforcing its own requirements in October.
Protesters on Saturday marched through an Alabama shopping mall where police killed a man they later acknowledged was not the triggerman in a Thanksgiving night shooting that wounded two people.
Thousands of people shopped locally to support Small Business Saturday. In downtown Stillwater, you can find window shoppers, people hustling and bustling with bags full of gifts, and lots and lots of ornaments. Jim Beboer and his family make it a point to shop small this holiday season. They visited Käthe Wohlfahrt of America, which specializes in Christmas ornaments made in Germany.
A deadly wildfire is nearly contained after several days of rain in Northern California, but searchers are still completing the meticulous task of combing through now-muddy ash and debris for signs of human remains. Crews planned to resume the grim task Saturday after working on-and-off the day before amid a downpour in the devastated town of Paradise. Some are now looking through destroyed neighborhoods for a second time as hundreds of people remain unaccounted for. They're searching for telltale fragments or bone or anything that looks like a pile of cremated ashes.
Officials with a Wisconsin school district say free-speech rights would make it difficult to discipline students who appeared in a photograph that showed several high school boys giving what appears to be a Nazi salute.
Environmental groups and activists blasted the White House this week, saying it was trying to "bury" a long-awaited government report on climate change by releasing it on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Among those who spoke out was former Vice President Al Gore, who became the face of the climate debate with the 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
The Minnesota State Patrol believes a medical condition may have led to a crash on Interstate 694 and Highway 252 near Fridley Friday night. Officials say one person had to be extricated in the single vehicle rollover.
The Holidazzle celebration is officially underway at Loring Park in downtown Minneapolis. People ice skated and enjoyed a fireworks show Friday night. WCCO-TV's Jennifer Mayerle was the emcee of Friday's kickoff.
A huge explosion jolted a St. Paul neighborhood Friday morning, sending 80-year-old John Lundahl to the hospital, and blowing out windows and walls of nearby homes. A nearby security camera captured the explosion rip the house apart, spewing an enormous fireball. The home was leveled, and others have been evacuated.
The FBI questioned a driver who led police on a chase Friday after crashing through a gate at Duluth International Airport. Police say 36-year-old Christopher Dunker crashed into a gate and then drove onto the runway. Officers chased him and stopped him.
Minnesota Traffic Safety encourages everyone to drive sober to prevent alcohol-related accidents and deaths, with 191 DWIs already this holiday weekend.
