Body recovered from Minnesota River in Shakopee
The Scott County Sheriff's Office received a report of a body that was found upstream from The Landing - Minnesota River Heritage Park in Shakopee at 10:59 a.m.
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The Scott County Sheriff's Office received a report of a body that was found upstream from The Landing - Minnesota River Heritage Park in Shakopee at 10:59 a.m.
A section of Highway 10 in north-central Minnesota reopened this weekend after being flooded following heavy rains earlier this week.
A day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order protecting those who travel to Minnesota to get an abortion.
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, the Dakotas and Wisconsin, among others, are immediately banning the procedure. Planned Parenthood now projects the percentage of out-of-state patients seeking abortions in Minnesota could jump to 25% of all cases.
A number of homes near the Little Elk River in the town of Randall had to be evacuated today, while a number of roads were closed off.
Forecasters say the storm line is expected to drift toward central Minnesota in the overnight hours, weakening as it pushes deeper into the state. Still, a severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 3 a.m. Saturday for a large swath of Minnesota, stretching from Marshall in the southwest to Ely in the Arrowhead.
Many people with disabilities are not getting the adequate care they need as more than 170 group homes have closed across the state since October, ACR Group Homes said.
A number of homes near the Little Elk River in the town of Randall had to be evacuated Friday, while a number of roads were closed off.
The decision to undo nearly 50 years of precedent will have sweeping ramifications for tens of millions of women across the country as abortion rights are curtailed and lead to a patchwork of laws absent the constitutional protection.
Severe thunderstorms developed Thursday evening over parts of north-central and northeastern Minnesota, dropping quarter-sized hail and heavy downpours.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen called Thursday for tax cuts and a clampdown on government spending and regulations to help Minnesotans cope with the highest inflation rate in 40 years.
The U.S. Forest Service issued a draft environmental assessment Thursday to lay the foundation for a proposed 20-year moratorium on copper-nickel mining upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
In Minnesota, applicants for a Permit to Carry a Pistol must be at least 21 years old, must pass a background check, and must complete a firearms safety course. Those laws will remain in place, for now, unless the high court decides to take up more challenges to gun control laws in the future.
Imagine driving cross country, 1,800 miles, in a tractor. A Washington state man just did it for an important cause.
History was made with the newly crowned Miss Minnesota on Friday in Eden Prairie, as 25-year-old Rachel Evangelisto was the first Indigenous woman to win the crown.
