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An international student at Minnesota State University, Mankato alleges in a lawsuit filed Friday that immigration authorities illegally arrested him and are continuing to detain him because of his outspoken opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza.
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As the Trump administration sets the stage for faster processing speeds at pork and poultry plants, meatpacking workers at JBS Foods in Worthington are demanding safer work conditions in a new contract
Real ID deadlines came and went for years. But now, with the actual deadline next month, people who weren't sure if the requirement would ever be implemented are now waiting hours to get their new IDs.
The longtime host of All Things Considered on MPR News is returning to his roots in classical music radio. Tom Crann, who has served as regional host of the station’s flagship evening news program for two decades, announced Friday that he’s moving to YourClassical MPR.
Federal court judges in Minnesota this week have ordered the Department of Homeland Security to temporarily reinstate the status of two international students.
Lightning is believed to be the cause of a fire that burned the steeple of a historic church in St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood on Thursday evening.
The St. Paul Saints and St. Paul Colored Gophers played ball in the early 1900s at a tiny ballpark near the Capitol called the Pillbox. The Colored Gophers were a vital piece of Black baseball history nationally. A local historian is lobbying now for a public commemoration of the site.
A fire destroyed several buildings on the grounds of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival near Shakopee on Thursday night.
The changes to the fish consumption guidelines affect about 44 water bodies in 10 counties, in both the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. PFAS are a group of human-made chemicals widely used for decades in consumer products to resist water, stains and grease.
Tribal nations in Minnesota have long raised concerns about pollution from taconite mines on the state’s Iron Range. The mining industry has been trying to find ways to produce iron using renewable energy. The University of Minnesota is conducting a study of what it calls ‘next generation steel’ to understand the economic and environmental benefits.
A new exhibition at Vandalia Tower in St. Paul showcases more than 300 works by Lucy Kreisler Smith, a Holocaust survivor and lifelong artist, in a retrospective curated by her son, Dan Smith.
Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar.
But the new technology carries potential privacy risks for intimate information.
