Walleye are facing a number of complicating factors that could affect their long-term health – including climate change, invasive species and increased pressure from anglers armed with better gear and technology. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Opponents of so-called hyperscale data centers are calling on Minnesota lawmakers to adopt stronger regulations this session, including a two-year pause in new construction. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minnesota electricity customers might be on the financial hook for coal plants in other states that were scheduled for retirement, but ordered by the Trump administration to keep operating. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Some greater Minnesota counties already cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and say they have no plans to change the practice, despite controversy over the recent federal enforcement surge in Minnesota. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
In a Jan. 16 interview, Tomso said he wants the university to be a more vibrant campus that’s more alluring to students and better connected to the larger St. Cloud community and workforce.
Here's where to find all of the @mprnews.org work on the immigration enforcement surge: www.mprnews.org/ice-in-minne...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed dialing back federal protections for many wetlands and streams across the country.
The federal rule change wouldn’t have much effect in Minnesota, where state laws already protect most wetlands and streams.
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As demand for energy surges in Minnesota, interest in battery storage booms www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe sues 3M, other companies over 'forever chemicals' contamination www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Whitefish Chain’s early attack on invasive species shows signs of success www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Family sues Crow Wing County over 2024 death of man in jail www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Minnesota receives more than $100 million every year from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to help people pay home heating costs. About 107,000 Minnesota households, including both homeowners and renters, have received help this winter paying utility bills.
Minnesota has distributed about $10 million a year to counties for aquatic invasive species prevention for the past decade. Gov. Tim Walz’s proposed budget reduced that amount by 50 percent and some lake advocates worry cutting the funding could potentially lead to more infested waters.
Several organizations in St. Cloud led by people of color are working to address local housing needs. A recent study found the city will need 17,000 new housing units over the next decade and a half to meet anticipated demand.
"Ick" factor aside, it was interesting to look back at the rapid development of this scientific process during the COVID pandemic, and how it could help alert scientists to new disease outbreaks in the future.
Attorney General Keith Ellison filed charges in Beltrami County on Friday against Michelle Skroch, a former nurse at the county jail. Skroch was the director of nursing for MEnD Correctional Care, the former healthcare provider at the jail, at the time of Hardel Sherrell's death.
The COVID-19 pandemic upended life in Minnesota and across the country in March 2020. Schools and businesses closed. Hospitals nearly reached a breaking point as deaths and hospitalizations leaped. Five charts show different ways in which the pandemic shaped us.
Every winter, thousands of people fish on Minnesota’s frozen lakes. Some leave trash, an unsightly problem that can affect a lake’s health.
Lake advocates say a recent Minnesota law targeting litter left on the ice is helping curb the problem.
Completed in 1961, the striking Abbey Church is the flagship of St. John’s, and a heralded example of modern architecture.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Council on Monday issued a joint statement stating that they’ve started to study replacing those Northstar trains through the northwest Twin Cities metro area with buses.
Rahima Frogh is grateful her family is safe, and now living in St. Cloud. But she worries about the relatives she left behind.
Sen. John Marty, DFL-Roseville, said the signs detract from the state's natural scenic beauty, and pose a safety concern for motorists. He authored a bill that would impose a statewide moratorium on new billboards. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
Latest in Getting to Green, from Dan Kraker: "Virtual" power plants -- known as non-wires alternatives -- could play an increasingly important role in meeting Minnesota's clean energy goals.
Many data centers use water — sometimes in large amounts — to cool their equipment. That’s raising some concerns about their impacts on the state’s groundwater supplies.
Speaking to a full house of contractors who work in Stearns County shoreland areas about the @mprnews.org series “Trouble by the water.” These are folks doing real work, with the capacity to make a difference in how lakeshore is developed. They were a great audience.
Owls that live in the boreal forest in Canada, hundreds of miles away, have flown south to northeastern Minnesota in search of their preferred food, small rodents called voles. Several owls have been killed and injured by vehicles.
Story by @msepic.bsky.social on a central Minnesota dairy farmer facing felony wage theft and racketeering charges over allegations that he underpaid and mistreated his immigrant workers.
A new report shows Minnesota’s greenhouse gas emissions rebounded after falling sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's not clear whether the state is on track to meet its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2025, or reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
