Plus, Minnesota Reformer's weekly legislative roundup.
Slowing population growth, aging residents, rural depopulation and more make the list.
Geologists, emergency managers plead with Legislature to fund a study of the key infrastructure under the falls.
"Psst – I’m taking off – cover for me, wouldya?"
"We flexed our muscles, and we showed them we can stand up to them. And we won,” said Kevin Borowske, a former FirstService caretaker.
"Complex tax avoidance maneuvers have no basis in economic substance."
The new union will represent roughly 4,100 graduate students at the Twin Cities and Duluth campuses.
With nearly a million Minnesotans between ages 5 and 18, one violation of the bill's provisions would cost the news outlet $2.4 billion.
DLI’s Labor Standards unit found the personal care assistance agencies did not correctly pay workers all they were owed.
A dozen states and the District of Columbia allow local jurisdictions to keep the excess money after a property is sold for back taxes.
State senators gutted a drug price gouging bill last week in a gift to Big Pharma, advocates for the bill say.
Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter is out of prison. She will remain on probation until Dec. 21.
The bill would increase education spending by 10 percent to $23 billion.
The bills have become pillars of the Minnesota DFL’s social issue agenda this session.
The budget bill includes a ban on products that contain common but toxic chemicals that 3M invented in Minnesota in the 1940s.
The Ways and Means Committee approved House File 100, setting up a grand showdown between advocates and opponents of legalizing cannabis.
Minnesota Senate Republicans accused Democrats of being too soft on crime with their approach to public safety and prisons.
Applicants had to wait an average of 87 days for RentHelpMN to process their applications.
Democrats say the ads amount to misinformation meant to provide cover for the pharmaceutical industry and its gargantuan price increases.
"The Legislature, Walz and the DOC have many underutilized tools to increase safety and humanity," teacher David Boehnke writes.
The bill would establish a 10.85% tax rate on a Minnesotan’s taxable income above $1 million for married joint filers.
"We’re not a car factory. We’re not an assembly line putting pieces and widgets and things like that together. It's people."
"Large multi-hospital corporations have overpowered worker freedoms by creating assembly line medicine while pocketing profits."
The provision is part of a large elections bill, the Democracy for the People Act.
Current law requires buyers to undergo background checks before a purchase can be made from a licensed firearms dealer.
A judge ordered candidate Victor Martinez not to have any contact with Briana Rose Lee.
Under a settlement with the ACLU, the former president of Minneapolis' union is barred from serving as an officer in three counties.
The past election had the usual fusillade of negative ads in various forums promulgated by both parties.
Minnesota's large Democratic delegation — including Gov. Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Sen Amy Klobuchar— attended the event Monday.
The Minnesota Department of Commerce recently announced changes to its energy division.
President Joe Biden is visiting the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Fridley, Minnesota Monday for his "Investing in America" tour.
President Joe Biden will visit the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Minnesota on Monday. Here's his public schedule.
Minnesota legislators are moving to close a franchise-owners loophole via two House Bills.
Other bargaining team members have received “final written warnings,” which says they can be terminated immediately if they violate policy.
“We’ve been having this damn conversation too long,” the governor said this week.
The court-enforceable settlement will push the city of Minneapolis and its police department to make significant reforms.
Last fall, Cummins announced it will begin manufacturing electrolyzers in the United States for the first time.
President Joe Biden will head to Minneapolis next week as part of his administration's "Investing in America" tour.
Instead of a unilateral ban, Rep. Ilhan Omar called for "actual standards and regulations around data harvesting and privacy violations."
Matthew Frank is the second member of the Derek Chauvin prosecution team to be appointed as a judge.