Late Snow Has Many Looking Like Rookie Winter Drivers
It's one of the biggest problems with a mild winter. All it takes is a simple snowfall, and winter driving skills look really rusty.
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It's one of the biggest problems with a mild winter. All it takes is a simple snowfall, and winter driving skills look really rusty.
When Richfield-based Best Buy made the news back in December, it wasn't good. The company had to apologize to thousands of customers after the orders placed after Thanksgiving couldn't be delivered in time for Christmas.
In our internet age it's something we so take for granted -- the open and easy access to both information and entertainment.
In the rented offices of the Dunn County Democratic party, the signs and posters are put away, and stacks of "Recall Walker" cardboard pickets are neatly stacked in piles, leaning against the walls.
A man who's trained to make arrests for drunken driving is now on the other side of the law, sentenced for his own DUI conviction.
For the better part of 40 years, Dave Hauan's been installing, pumping and troubleshooting rural septic systems.
Ten players were ejected from a high school hockey game in Winona Thursday night as a result of a brawl that started after a player was checked from behind.
In a state where sports fans are hungry for something to cheer about, the new look Minnesota Timberwolves have heard the cries, and are answering the call.
Take a look at any construction site across Minnesota and you'll see our economic recovery in the works. What's obvious with every building going up and every load of concrete delivered, is that more and more Minnesotans are going back to work.
Any true Minnesotan with an ounce of Viking blood knows that 16th and Lake Street in Minneapolis is their final stop before the Christmas feast! For the past 90 years, the south Minneapolis street corner has been anchored by Ingebretsen's meat market and gift shop.
Three weeks after Black Friday's mad rush, some sanity has returned to shopping malls and savvy holiday customers have it figured out.
Surrounded by rolling farmland at the northern edge of the Twin Cities metro, a former township turned city is struggling to pay its bills.
Anoka County Attorney Tony Palumbo sees the growing dangers of synthetic drugs first hand. His office is among the first in the state to prosecute homicide charges relating to these so called bath salts.
With his horses in the corral and a gaggle of geese on the ground, organic farmer Steven Schwen lives life about as basic as one can get.
At each burial, the Fort Snelling memorial rifle squad will fire off a 21-gun salute using WW1 vintage Springfield O3A3 bolt action rifles. Squad members say the rifles are safe and simple to load. Recently, however, the squad learned that the U.S. Army is demanding that the unit turn over the government-issued rifles and exchange them for a different model.
With their bodies bundled up against December's biting cold, patriotism and honor stood hand-in-hand on the frozen ground of Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
Students come and go from all Minnesota high schools, but there are few who have left a greater impression than Bill Harper did on Coon Rapids High School.
In the fall of 2008, Brian Bender was a new father and attending William Mitchell College of Law. Suddenly, the first-year law student would confront a challenge few other students ever face.
Few people are still alive who don't need the newsreel footage to remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the few remaining survivors, the surprise Japanese attack on that December morning is forever seared in their minds.
It's the last thing two burglary suspects expected to hear when they broke into a Coon Rapids home -- the unmistakable sound of a pump shotgun.
It's one of those rare treats of Mother Nature. A bird seldom seen south of the Canadian border is becoming a common sight among many this winter, as Minnesotans come face to face with the snowy owl.
In 1925, Henry Ford found the perfect spot to make his Model T's. A natural waterfall to make power, plenty of available water and rail transportation and a pool of skilled labor.
Seventy-five years ago, the Johnson family set down roots in the floral business. It's shop along Grand Avenue in St. Paul grew steadily. When the Internet came along in the mid-1990s, it truly blossomed. The Johnson's soon discovered the power of the Google search engine.
Standing in the yard of the Blaine home they have owned for the past nine years, Kipper and Samija Wilson have done the math on their current mortgage.
To say that Dale Klapmeier is excited about general aviation would be a gross understatement. Klapmeier is co-founder and CEO of Duluth-based Cirrus Aircraft, the company that revolutionized safety in small airplanes.
