Minnesota Cities, Counties Fume Over Costly Sales Tax Change
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.
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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.
Long before the 2012 Iowa caucuses, Tim Pawlenty was already out of the race for president. Yet his short-lived campaign lives on, casting a shadow over the Republicans now wooing voters in the state that kicks off the White House contest.
Rosemount Middle School officials have locked the school down after receiving a threatening call Monday morning, according to police.
Authorities have arrested a man in Minneapolis in the shooting death of another man in northern Iowa. The Emmet County Sheriff's Department announced Monday that police arrested 18-year-old Lee Samuel Christensen in Minneapolis and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Thomas Bortvit.
Negotiations over a deal to enable a special legislative session are at a standstill. Minnesota House Republicans and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton remain at odds over a couple of bills and a new law altering the authority of the state auditor.
A man is dead after a late night shooting in Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside neighborhood Sunday. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, around 10:45 p.m. the Communications Center received a call of a shooting in the 400 block of Cedar Avenue South.
A half-dozen bakers from Africa are in the Dakotas and Minnesota learning how to bake with soy flour.
Sioux Falls police say a domestic dispute led to a man taking his wife's laptop into the backyard and shooting it several times with a handgun.
Police say a 12-year-old boy fought off a man who tried to abduct him while he was skateboarding in northeastern Wisconsin.
Freshman year of high school is all about new classes and new friends. But Zack had to deal with a new challenge -- fighting cancer.
Have a couple of hours to spare this week? That's all it takes to help change the lives of others in need here in the Twin Cities.
Want help pacing out your runs? Some studies show songs that are 150 beats per minute increase performance of the run by 15 percent.
Authorities say a crude oil train and a semitrailer carrying flour collided at a railroad crossing south of St. Paul that local officials are calling to be closed.
It's a state law that's been in effect for a month, but today a group of taprooms officially got the green light to sell bottles and growlers on Sundays. A state representative from Carver County says the Waconia area has more breweries, wineries and distilleries than anywhere else in the state.
Two free public gardens along St. Cloud's riverfront are known for more than their flowers, tall trees and fountains.
