Michele Tafoya made her name in TV sports media. She’s trying to translate that into a political win in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race.
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The U.S. Senate race in Minnesota has candidates from the two major parties campaigning hard to win the seat, but there are also three candidates without major party backing on the ballot.
Recent shootings have put renewed attention on gangs in the Twin Cities, especially what law enforcement leaders are calling “Somali gangs.” Here’s what we’ve learned about who’s in these gangs, what they do and how they compare to gangs in the past.
With Capitol control on the line this fall, there are a few competitive state Senate contests gaining the most attention and party resources. Two races will pit first-term senators against their opponents from 2022.
A new community fridge and freezer recently installed at the New Ulm Public Library is helping combat food insecurity amid a rise in demand for food assistance. The library’s big freezer and large fridge also help prevent food waste by rescuing food that otherwise would have been headed to landfills.
Minnesota State officials said the funding shift is needed as a temporary solution while they work on a plan to realign the entire system of colleges and universities.
President Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon visited Rochester Wednesday to boost community college and technical education programs and to promote the administration’s effort to slash the federal bureaucracy and “return education to the states.”
The Art Hounds recommend the St. Paul Art Crawl, a retrospective of Jim Grittner’s ceramics in Duluth and a documentary screening in Fergus Falls about Minnesota’s mental health institutions.
St. Paul City Council members are joining Minneapolis in the push for regulating driverless rideshare vehicles, like Waymo and Tesla Robotaxi, but with a different approach. Council president Rebecca Noecker introduced a resolution Wednesday that would direct the city’s planning commission to study autonomous vehicles, then suggest potential guardrails around safety, data-sharing and worker protections.
The seminary had announced last year that it was planning to sell its longtime campus in St. Paul’s St. Anthony Park neighborhood. School officials said that campus no longer served the seminary’s mission, with most students attending online.
The subpoenas were issued for a grand jury collecting evidence in Minnesota as federal authorities probe potential fraud in Omar's immigration paperwork. The investigation led to federal agents searching Omar's Washington, D.C., home on Monday just weeks before the November midterms, in which Omar is seeking reelection.
The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV has celebrated Mass in a special room set up for him at the hospital after cancer surgery. The Vatican says Leo celebrated along with his secretaries on Wednesday afternoon.
Six people, including a child, died in a plane crash in Wisconsin. Authorities say the pilot reported ice building up on the wings during a thunderstorm. The single-engine plane was traveling from Kenosha to Menomonie on Tuesday night and crashed near Mirror Lake State Park.
