HASTINGS, MINN. — After a rocky debate performance last week against former President Donald Trump, questions have stirred about whether President Joe Biden is fit to serve another four years, even from his own party. After a press conference about a newly introduced fentanyl bill, U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., told reporters that despite Biden […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The visuals were stunning: Water from the Blue Earth River surged around a southern Minnesota dam, carrying a shipping container with it as it toppled utility poles, wrecked a substation and washed away part of a riverbank. A home teetered on the edge of an eroded slope as floodwaters rushed underneath. Earlier […]
Major failures by Minnesota’s education department allowed the rampant misuse of a federal program meant to feed children during the pandemic, according to a state audit report released Thursday. The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) did not properly oversee Feeding Our Future, the nonprofit at the center of an alleged $250 million Covid relief scheme […]
Jun. 6—FLAG ISLAND, Minn. — A longtime resort at Flag Island on Minnesota’s Northwest Angle has been purchased and again is open for business. Justin and Tanya Ferguson, who own Cyrus Resort on the south shore of Lake of the Woods, have purchased the resort on Flag Island, which is now known as Cyrus’s Flag […]
When Viet-Hanh Winchell is sworn in as a judge at the Washington County Courthouse in Stillwater on Monday, she will be making history. Winchell, 41, is believed to be the state’s first Vietnamese-American state court judge. It’s fitting that Winchell will assume her new role this month, which is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage […]
In a solemn, pre-dawn ceremony, the flag that’s been flying over Minnesota’s Capitol for decades was lowered for the last time. Voices hushed in a crowd of more than a dozen onlookers at 5 a.m. on Saturday as the flag with Civil War-era imagery was carefully carried from the darkened Capitol rooftop to the building’s […]
A plastic film recycling company that opened the first facility of its kind in Minnesota last year has not paid any rent so far in 2024, according to a lawsuit filed this week. Myplas USA owes more than $389,000 in unpaid rent on its 160,000-square-foot industrial space in Rogers, according to the suit, and an […]
What may quite possibly be Minnesota’s oldest Dairy Queen is up for sale. The Spratte family of Rochester has owned and operated the store for more than 80 years. It is now on the market for $1.4 million. Robert Beeman, the real estate salesperson who listed the property, said the soft-serve outpost’s historic location has […]
Minnesota’s four-year graduation rate dipped slightly this year, with about 83.3% of high schoolers earning their diplomas on time — tempering a rebound seen last year when graduation rates ticked back up to levels similar to those before the COVID-19 pandemic. Leaders at the Minnesota Department of Education say the small decrease is due, in […]
REMER, MINN. – Along a lonely stretch of road inside the Chippewa National Forest, a stand of black ash trees is under attack. Discovered last fall, it signals the farthest and coldest known place a hungry forest menace has come in northern Minnesota. For now the infestation is helping University of Minnesota researchers study the […]
Mar. 5—BEMIDJI — Residents in Bemidji and across Minnesota took to the polls on Tuesday, March 5, as one of several states participating in Super Tuesday’s presidential primaries. The primaries in Minnesota featured three major parties, each with their own ballot: the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the Republican Party and the Legalize Marijuana Now Party. Residents began […]
Mar. 4—BEMIDJI — Minnesotans in Beltrami County and across the state will vote in the presidential primaries on Tuesday, March 5, as one of several states participating in what’s known as Super Tuesday. The primaries in Minnesota will feature three major parties, each with their own ballot: the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the Republican Party and the […]