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You've likely heard of book clubs and wine clubs. Now there's a new kind of club growing in popularity. In the quest to keep ourselves and children healthy, families are finding alternative ways to get good food, like Fruit Share.
Vijay Dixit is comforted sitting in a memorial garden created in his daughter's honor. Shreya was 19 and a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was coming home with a friend who was driving. The driver crashed.
There will be a good, deep cleaning along the Mississippi River Wednesday as volunteers head out by riverboat to pick up trash and debris in St. Paul. But there's a fun twist to all that dirty work. At least some if not most of the trash collected will end up at the Minnesota State Fair in August.
It's a story being written in the halls of schools across the Twin Cities -- girls as young as 12 are being recruited as sex workers. The FBI ranks Minnesota 13th in the nation for highest incidence of sex trafficking.
The Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a newly redesigned website aimed at giving the state's veterans improved access to job opportunities, information about healthcare options and benefits, and other services.
The board in charge of Minnesota's new health insurance marketplace will begin hearing regular presentations from its future customers. The MNsure board holds its second meeting Wednesday. On the agenda is a short presentation from Dana Hoenigschmidt, owner of a child care company in St. Francis that employs 25 people.
Maybe you've heard this story on your block. Your neighbor puts their home up for sale and it's sold -- in two hours. According to a Twin Cities real estate research firm, this is happening all along the metro.
ith college debt topping $1 billion, some are wondering whether four years of college is worth the money. For years, we've known four-year college grads make hundreds of thousands of dollars more over their lives than those who don't continue with school.
Xcel Energy says it has addressed federal regulators' concerns about flood protection at its Monticello nuclear power plant.
Last week, I had a happy hour date set up with some friends from a previous job. Plenty of time was spent discussing available dates and possible locations. Babysitters were secured, work tasks were prioritized, and three hours before go time, someone backed out, followed by another, and yet another.
Five days away from Father's Day, many families don't have any plans yet -- or gifts. Dads don't seem to get quite the attention that Moms do. This year, people said they planned to spend an average of $168 on Mother's Day, compared with only $120 on dad, according to a survey in Forbes magazine.
A big jump in the state's cigarette tax is still more than two weeks away, but it's already having a huge impact on smokers. They're stocking up and changing their habits.
Sure, kids may say the darndest things but only a comedian would turn those adorable and somewhat humbling quotes into the title of his new book. Jim Gaffigan, best known for his hilarious, observational stand-up and his numerous TV cameos, is also juggling five kids, all under the age of nine, in a small New York apartment -- it's the perfect setting for comedy.
Gardeners just can't seem to get a break this spring. First, it was a late start to the growing season with cool, rainy weather and not a lot of sunshine. And now deer are causing problems.
A coalition of groups are launching a statewide campaign to stop elder abuse, as 30,000 cases of senior citizen fraud and abuse have been reported in just the last couple of years in Minnesota. The shocking fact is that's only a fraction of what's going on.
