All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 31 2016 // Fire deaths in Minnesota have decreased this year, down dramatically from 2015.State Fire Marshal Bruce West told Minnesota Public Radio News that there have been 24 deaths from fires so far this year, compared with 49 at...
Oct 7 2016 // Agriculture cooperatives posted record profits last year highlighting the business model the U.S. Department of Agriculture says provides more than 2 million jobs.The USDA says in a report on Oct. 4 net income for the...
Oct 6 2016 // New safety technology that may have prevented last week’s deadly train crash in New Jersey is being implemented along some rail lines in Minnesota and elsewhere.The new technology, known as positive train control, is...
Oct 3 2016 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies named Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., as the association’s Federal Legislator of the Year for his work to win passage of the Small Mutual Inflation Update.Paulsen...
Sep 28 2016 // Estimates of flood damage from last week’s flood are rising in Waseca, Minnesota, officials say, and in neighboring South Dakota weekend storms damaged homes in the Oglala area.In Minnesota, Waseca County’s...
Sep 16 2016 // The majority of Minnesota residents aren’t experiencing the hefty health insurance rate hikes that shoppers who buy their coverage individually will see, according to data released by the federal government.More than...
Sep 14 2016 // A school district in Minnesota has agreed to pay $50,000 to a female employee and reclassify her position to resolve federal charges of equal pay discrimination.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said...
Sep 9 2016 // Insurers say they’ve significantly raised the deductible on insuring Lake Elmo, Minn., because the city is being managed in a way that creates too much of a risk of lawsuits. The Insurance Trust Board of the League...
Sep 8 2016 // St. Jude Medical will face an uphill battle in its corporate defamation lawsuit over a short-seller’s report that said the medical device company’s heart implants were vulnerable to cyber attacks, lawyers...
Sep 7 2016 // St. Jude Medical Inc. said it had filed a lawsuit against short-selling firm Muddy Waters and cyber security company MedSec Holdings Ltd. alleging they intentionally disseminated false and misleading information in order...
Sep 6 2016 // Minnesota-based Kraus-Anderson Insurance has acquired Onyx Benefit Advisors, based in Bloomington, Minn.Onyx was founded by Jenny Wiederholt-Pine, who built the company into a successful agency, offering services that...
Sep 6 2016 // Thousands of nurses at five Minnesota hospitals on Sept. 5 began an open-ended strike in a dispute over health insurance, workplace safety and staffing.Clad in red T-shirts, members of the Minnesota Nurses Association,...
Aug 16 2016 // A judge in southeastern Minnesota has awarded $3.5 million to a man who said he was fired from the family banking business because he’s gay.The attorney for Stephen Habberstad, Leslie Lienemann, said it could be one...
Aug 12 2016 // A police “shoot/don’t shoot” demonstration in Florida went shockingly awry when an officer shot and killed a 73-year-old former librarian with what police said was real ammunition used by mistake at an...
Aug 8 2016 // Advisor Nattalie Rolland-Vath of North Risk Partners – C.O. Brown Division in Red Wing, Minn., has been named the 2016 Outstanding Customer Service Representative (CSR) of the Year for the state of Minnesota by the...
Aug 2 2016 // Judy Bjerke Severson wants to be normal — visit friends and family, go to the grocery store or even sleep in her own bed — but she says the crippling pain from fibromyalgia and back surgery complications, as well as a...
Jul 28 2016 // Officials say one of two construction workers injured in a trench collapse in Minnetonka, Minn., has died.The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office says 48-year-old Jimmy Scott Klous of Onamia died late Monday...
Jul 27 2016 // Preliminary figures from the Department of Public Safety show that 200 people have died on Minnesota roads in 2016. The Office of Traffic Safety says the 200 mark was reached July 23, putting the number of road deaths on...
Jul 20 2016 // Parts of east-central Minnesota are still trying to cope with floodwaters and subsequent damage nearly a week after torrential rains fell across a huge swath of the state.Kanabec County Sheriff Brian Smith told Minnesota...
Jul 7 2016 // SFM Mutual Insurance Co., a Midwest regional workers’ compensation insurer, has acquired Barrier Free Access, a Byron, Minn.-based provider of safe patient handling products, design consultation and training to...