11+ hour, 21+ min ago  (362+ words) Xcel Energy confirmed Wednesday that oil has been discovered in the Mississippi River after a leak at its Monticello nuclear plant. On Tuesday, Xcel said about 200 gallons of oil had seeped from the cooling equipment at its plant. A motor…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (419+ words) Put those shorts away. Despite the recent balmy spring weather, snow and freezing temperatures are expected to return this week across the state, starting tonight. Minnesotans got a treat over the weekend as temperatures soared to 60 degrees from the Twin…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (736+ words) By Jessie Van Berkel Minnesota has for decades been shifting toward outsourcing management of its social services system. Gov. Tim Walz is now looking to reverse that trend in an effort to prevent fraud. But the proposals, including having the…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (1033+ words) The brick church from 1887 is all that's left of what was once Chanhassen's historic downtown. Its steeple is scruffy, missing some shingles, and its stained glass windows are cloudy. Now, the vacant 139-year-old church, formerly the home of St. Hubert…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1701+ words) By Emma Nelson and ST. PETER, MINN. - Mercedes checked her phone again, waiting for her husband to call from the detention center. Forty-one days earlier, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had detained Paco as he walked to his car....

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1093+ words) Retailers across the country, including Target, say one metric is finally improving: Shrink is returning to pre-pandemic levels. That's good news for the Minneapolis-based retailer's bottom line. At one point amid the supply chain crisis following the pandemic, executives said…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (504+ words) Snow-crusted side streets have long been a headache for St. Paul drivers, but the city's efforts to get on top of the problem with seasonal parking restrictions might be creating a new hassle. The city's alternate-side winter parking experiment has…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (336+ words) A man killed a coworker inside an industrial shop west of the Twin Cities with blows to her head with a sledgehammer, then he confessed to the crime, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday. David Bruce DeLong, 40, of Watkins,…...

4+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (631+ words) A devastating pest that has killed tens of millions of oak trees in California was discovered for the first time in Minnesota, researchers announced this week. The "sudden oak death" pathogen, which behaves like a fungus and is always fatal…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (648+ words) University of Minnesota officials are upset that doctors who work for its health care enterprise are striking what several U regents called a "secret" new deal with Fairview Health Services. These doctors work in the hospitals and medical offices branded…...