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On Tuesday, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the latest in a string of shootings by ICE officers who later claimed the victim attempted to h...
In Minnesota, where we don’t require parents to give up custody, we still commingle the process of getting children the mental health treatment they need with the child protection system.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a July 2 panel decision requiring bond hearings for immigrants held under the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy.
Minnesota prosecutors announced on Monday they obtained a trove of evidence from the federal government in the killings of two U.S. citizens — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — and the shooting of Venezuelan...
Elder Chavez crossed the border as an unaccompanied minor in 2022. Now 18, he sits in Louisiana’s Winn Correctional Center facing deportation after a traffic violation. (Illustration by Emily Scherer for P...
South Dakota-based Sanford Health has committed to maintaining core services at North Memorial Health’s Robbinsdale hospital for two years if it successfully acquires North Memorial. “We would have loved...
An early spike in applications for the state’s new paid leave program has since tapered off, and applications by the end of the year may match up with pre-launch estimates, according to the state Departmen...
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon watched local election officials test a voting machine at a public event in Stillwater on Wednesday to reassure voters of their accuracy amid heavy-handed federal sc...
A $40 million boost to a state homelessness prevention program will soon reach thousands of Minnesotans. The divided Legislature approved the extra housing assistance in the 2026 legislative session, funneli...
Participating between elections has turned into an obstacle course, and most of us fail it for reasons that have nothing to do with how much we want to be heard.
Minnesota utilities’ long-range resource plans lean heavily on wind, which is often the cheapest source of power in the breezy Upper Midwest.
With so much promising research and support for psychedelic medicines, we should view what passed this session as a planning phase for action in 2027.
The notice arrived in my mailbox even though it should not have. I am an enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation and a person living with a medical disability. For health coverage, I am dual-eligible: Medicar...
Over 17,000 fewer Minnesotans enrolled in a health insurance plan through MNsure, the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace, in May 2026 compared to May 2025. The dip in MNsure coverage mirrors a nationw...
The U.S. Department of Justice and 17 states, including Minnesota, announced a $3.3 million settlement agreement this week with egg producers accused of hatching a years-long scheme to inflate egg prices nat...
Minnesota’s suicide rate increased 4% in 2025 compared to 2024, according to preliminary data from the state’s Department of Health. An estimated 845 people died from suicide in 2025, representing an age...
About a year ago I spent an afternoon in a small cemetery on a rural road in north central Wisconsin. I had the cemetery to myself for a few hours as I worked to clear away the out-of-control daylilies that...
If House Speaker Lisa Demuth becomes the Republican nominee for Minnesota governor in August, she’ll have one donor in particular to thank: Richard Uihlein. Uihlein owns one of North America’s largest di...
More than 130 unionized doctors at Allina Health’s Mercy and Unity hospitals are threatening to strike after negotiations over the past two years failed to produce an agreement with the health system giant...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has nominated a former Oklahoma state trooper to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency tasked with carrying out the president’s mass deportation cam...
At the start of the year I was asked an intriguing question. How much damage has been done to Minnesota’s once pristine brand, and how might we rebuild it? The unflattering news stories had been relentle...
One speaker said, “Human detention should never be used as a business model to plug the county budget deficit."
Sales of Minnesota goods to foreign countries were 8% lower in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the same time last year, according to new trade data from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Econo...
The new rules would create barriers that will cause eligible people to lose access to healthcare, including critical mental health services.