Firefighters Working To Extinguish Wildfire In Northern Minnesota's Itasca State Park
A small wildfire is burning in Itasca State Park in drought-stricken northern Minnesota.
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A small wildfire is burning in Itasca State Park in drought-stricken northern Minnesota.
"At our facility, we currently have a 40% to 45% vaccination rate for staff," certified nursing assistant Abbie Tiemann said. "We've come to the point where no one else is willing to take that vaccine. I am one of them."
According to the United States Attorney's Office District of Minnesota, two men have been sentenced to a year of probation and $1.1 million fine for spilling thousands of gallons of oil in the Yellow Medicine River.
A young Champlin man is leading a one-person campaign to reach out to every police officer in the country. He came up with a simple yet lasting way to thank officers for their service.
The footage shows officers riding in a van on May 30, 2020, five days after George Floyd was killed, and enforcing curfew with rubber bullets.
The need for truck and bus drivers sparked a local organization to recruit community members to change their lives by getting their commercial driver's license.
A political standstill is preventing a special legislative session at the Minnesota State Capitol, putting the fate of bonus pay for frontline workers and drought relief for farmers in limbo.
A trial date has been set for Nicholas Kraus, the man charged with murder for allegedly plowing his SUV into a group of protesters in Minneapolis earlier this year, killing one woman and injuring three others.
Officials have identified the man fatally run over Tuesday morning near downtown St. Paul.
The Office of the Minnesota Appellate Public Defender ruled Chauvin ineligible, and after reviewing his financial information, the Supreme Court agreed.
Human remains found in a suitcase in western Wisconsin last year have been identified as those of a woman reported missing after working in a popular tourist area in the state, according to sheriff's officials.
Starting on Oct. 15, the Mankato and St. Cloud testing sites will be open on Friday, and starting Oct. 17, Sunday testing will be offered at Moorhead and Winona.
Minnesota health officials on Wednesday reported 3,886 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 40 new deaths.
A national plasma donation company has agreed not to bar people from donating based on their gender identity after being sued by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.
A north Minneapolis man is using math to encourage Black youth to enroll at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
