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A study conducted earlier this year shows there may be a way to reduce the number of Covid infections on board commercial airplanes to virtually zero. Results of the study appeared in a peer-reviewed article published on Sept. 1 in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings medical journal. The article — a joint effort by Mayo Clinic, the Georgia Department of Public…

The Minnesota Supreme Court has reversed the third-degree murder conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who had called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home

The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for civil rights and hate crimes

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she has been treated for breast cancer and the treatment “went well.”

Klobuchar said the cancer was removed following a lumpectomy, which was followed by radiation treatment.

Minnesota prosecutors have filed a more serious charge against the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, but it is not the murder charge that activists were seeking

U.S. Forest Service officials say the fire on Monday afternoon developed a pyrocumulus cloud, resulting in extreme fire behavior and fire-created lightning.

Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States, has died in Minnesota

The U.S. Forest Service has closed a popular recreational wilderness area in northeastern Minnesota as the state’s largest active wildfire threatens the 1-million-acre property

Laid-off workers didn’t have to look for work to collect unemployment benefits early in the Covid pandemic. Most states have re-imposed the requirement.

After a year of the pandemic, social upheaval and mass remote work, these ten states are America’s best places to live.

Covid showed that letting employees work remotely does not necessarily result in a loss of productivity. These states are the best work from home locations.

Inclusiveness is supposed to be this state’s North Star. But the state is at the heart of a national reckoning on race.

Photos of enlarged goldfish found in a Minnesota lake have sparked a warning from officials.

Former police officer Derek Chauvin is unlikely to get a slap on the wrist sentence for the murder of George Floyd, according to former Hennepin County, Minnesota chief public defender Mary Moriarty.

Protesters faced off with officers in Minneapolis early Saturday over the shooting death of a Black man by members of a U.S. Marshals task force

Crews have removed concrete barriers, artwork, flowers and other items from a Minneapolis intersection that has been a sprawling memorial to George Floyd since his death last year.

Attorneys for the state and for three former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd are making oral arguments Thursday before the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Leaders in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April could vote Saturday on a resolution that would put the city on track to making major changes to its policing practices

A man accused of holding five employees hostage at a Minnesota bank following a dispute was captured and arrested after an hourslong standoff, police said.