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Minnesota has long been a safe haven for transgender youth, but new moves by the Trump administration to ban gender-affirming care put that status in jeopardy.
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A search for Minnesota’s public, indoor wood-burning fireplaces and what’s lost as these once-common hearths quietly disappear.
Board members in the state’s largest district called a special meeting Monday night to talk through “management of schools” should the teachers strike. No mediation sessions are scheduled between the district and union on a new contract.
Congress is expanding federal benefits for firefighters and first responders with job-related cancer.
A group of nonprofits are holding free water screening clinics throughout the state for private well owners to test their water supplies. Arsenic is a naturally occurring metalloid and has been linked to cancers and other neurodevelopmental problems.
Two people died in separate crashes involving semis on Monday morning on icy highways in southern Minnesota, in the wake of freezing rain, sleet and snow overnight.
Across the state, local government officials have been hearing plenty from constituents about increases in property taxes. Those taxes must be finalized by next week.
Enbridge and the Minnesota DNR agreed to a settlement after the company pierced a groundwater aquifer while building Line 3 in northern Minnesota, violating water rules.
Council member Andrea Jenkins has called her time in office “tumultuous” — most notably in 2020 during the pandemic and the upheaval after the murder of George Floyd in the ward.
We asked MPR News reporters and producers what they consider their most memorable work as we close out 2025.
A man was shot and wounded by St. Paul police officers on Sunday afternoon, after reportedly pointing a handgun at officers.
For 126 years the National Audubon Society has been hosting the Christmas Bird Count. That makes it the longest running community science bird project in the nation. And Minnesota has been taking part since 1905. The annual volunteer-conducted bird census kicked off Dec. 14 and runs until Jan. 5.
The city numbers follow a statewide trend of rising fatal overdoses, mainly from fentanyl and also methamphetamine.
