Tips For Avoiding Ticks This Season
It's the season when many families worry about ticks and the diseases they transmit. Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness and experts say they are thriving in the U.S.
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It's the season when many families worry about ticks and the diseases they transmit. Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness and experts say they are thriving in the U.S.
The Minnesota attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, claiming the charity has allowed the thrift store chain Savers to use signs that are misleading to donors.
When classes end for the school year many children lose access to healthy meals -- that's why the effort to offer free summer meals is growing.
Rain and wet fields have slowed the alfalfa hay harvest and crop spraying in Minnesota.
A third of all police calls in downtown Minneapolis originate from a block where the city's largest homeless shelter sits.
Republican Lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton have reached a deal on the Minnesota state budget, avoiding a potential government shutdown on July 1 that would have left around 9,500 government workers unemployed.
A Bloomington hotel had to be evacuated after part of the building's siding came crashing down early Monday morning.
Family members have identified the woman who fell to her death at an abandoned grain elevator over the weekend. The victim was 20-year-old Emily Roland, of Cottage Grove. She was a student at the University of Minnesota.
A Grand Rapids man pleaded guilty Monday to stabbing his brother in the chest, stomach arms and hands with a knife.
A Minnesota man accused of forcing a woman into prostitution in Sioux Falls has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.
When St. Paul Park Mayor Keith Franke first heard about the accident, he wasn't aware it involved an oil train and semi-truck carrying flour. But he was at work on Sunday, so he went down to take a look at the 2,000 bags of flour all over the road.
Gov. Mark Dayton "with great reluctance" has dropped his objections to language that would, he says, decimate the State Auditor's office, but said that other issues still need to be resolved before a special session could happen.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is starting the search for a new president. Current president Narayana Kocherlakota announced in December he will step down when his current term ends.
Rep. Phyllis Kahn (DFL-Minneapolis) filed an ethics complaint Monday against Rep. Dennis McNamara (R-Hastings), alleging that he accused her of conniving with a Minneapolis park board lobbyist and screamed at her so loudly the shouts could be heard across the Capitol building.
Minnesota lawmakers are primed to make a law change costing local governments $20 million in state sales taxes they were earlier told would be forgiven.
