A Trust Fund For Your Pets?
Minnesotans may soon be able to make sure their pets are taken care of well into the future. Minnesota lawmakers are considering a bill that would let people create a trust fund for their pets.
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Minnesotans may soon be able to make sure their pets are taken care of well into the future. Minnesota lawmakers are considering a bill that would let people create a trust fund for their pets.
Two farmers discovered the body of Laura Schwendemann in a Douglas County cornfield last October, after a two-week search for the 18-year-old college student. That is when Douglas County Attorney Chad Larson says his legal odyssey began.
A rare look was given Thursday into the Minnesota Security Hospital, the state's largest facility for the mentally ill and dangerous.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar introduced an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization bill that would allow for more federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs in non-secure airport zones, like check-in and baggage claim areas.
Minnesota lawmakers took their first steps toward handling a $900 million budget surplus, as House Republicans laid out a rough roadmap Thursday that would split the extra cash between tax cuts and a transportation funding package.
Minnesota residents without a high school diploma are now able to take the GED test for free for the next several months.
The same week concerns were raised about a gun being manufactured in Minnesota that looks like a cell phone, lawmakers want to ban a cell phone case that looks like a gun.
Governor Mark Dayton said Wednesday decades of neglect have made the state's psychiatric hospitals unsafe for workers and patients.
Just days after Gov. Mark Dayton banned state employees from nonessential travel to North Carolina, another state is now on the no-travel list.
Leaders and advocates from Minnesota's black community laid out their requests Wednesday for millions of dollars to start an investment program for minority-owned businesses and fund a summer job program for black teens, answering Gov. Mark Dayton's call for input to assemble a plan to tackle economic gaps.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who backs Cruz, said the race was "very likely" headed to an open convention but the 36 delegates Cruz won on Tuesday are "locked in." Trump won six delegates in the state.
It was a bad night for front-runners in Wisconsin, as both Senators Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz claimed victories in Tuesday's primaries.
The Council on America-Islamic Relations says it's been monitoring Islamophobia-related incidents across Minnesota.
State lawmakers are weighing how to address a string of assaults against teachers in Minnesota classrooms.
Polls are open in Wisconsin where the national spotlight is focused as state voters make their choice in the Republican and Democratic presidential race.
