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Officers in Hugo arrested a man after an hours-long standoff, according to police. Michael James Hardy, 43, was arrested on two active warrants. The first was for federal probation violation and the second was for first-degree controlled substance with a weapon.
Head out for a vacation that will put you in the heart of America's Great Sand Dunes. During your trip you can explore the country's highest dunes, go hiking through diverse forests or splash around in local waterways.
Gov. Mark Dayton has laid out a two-year budget, a transportation plan, a general construction proposal and much more. A primetime speech Thursday gives him a chance to put a finer point on his agenda and what he'll fight hardest for in the legislative session's final six weeks.
Minnesota's Veterans Affairs clinics and hospitals fare slightly better in delivering timely care to veterans than the national average. The Associated Press analyzed six months of VA data and found that 1.9 percent of medical appointments completed at its clinics and hospitals in Minnesota failed to meet the VA's timeliness goal, which calls for patients to be seen within 30 days.
Given the chance to cut rail costs by 50% and help farmers get grain to market, Cargill attempted something never done before: obtaining enough grain to fill 115 rail cars.
In the trading business, information has always been the key to success, serving as a competitive advantage. During the first half of its 150-year legacy, Cargill made efforts to keep its strategic intelligence confidential, believing that privacy was essential for prosperity.
After the success of his first grain warehouse in 1865, W. W. Cargill keeps going, creating a trade network across the US to help farmers sell their grain.
Before email and texting, there was teletype—Cargill's ahead-of-its-time wire system that sped up communication between offices and optimized business.
A Twin Cities high school student has a big -- and remarkable -- decision to make. Munira Khalif, a senior at Mounds Park Academy in St. Paul, was accepted into all eight Ivy League schools. She's one of only two students in the nation to accomplish that this year.
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, Gina McCarthy, visited the Twin Cities. She toured the St. Paul Regional Water Services Treatment Plant to highlight the importance of protecting the streams and wetlands that provide drinking water to a third of all Americans.
Hospitalized children, and their parents, say it's because of what they're breathing at school. Halle Wassenberg, 7, spent months seeing different doctors.
Longtime CBS anchor and reporter Bob Schieffer says he's retiring.
U.S. and Canadian crews are working to clear a path through ice on eastern Lake Superior that's left freighters unable to move, including one that had a hole punched in its hull. The Canadian Coast Guard says that by Wednesday afternoon, six vessels heading toward the lower lakes and 12 vessels heading toward upper Lake Superior were waiting to move.
Crews building the Minnesota Vikings' new home are crossing the project's 50-yard line. The $1 billion stadium is now halfway finished. From the sky, you can see it's really starting to take shape. The structural concrete is 80 percent done.
A Twin Cities man is charged with murder in the unsolved disappearance of his wife nearly 20 years ago. Toni Bachman vanished in 1997, and investigators have considered her husband, Norman, a suspect from the start.
