All the headlines from our Minnesota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2022 // The state of Minnesota has agreed to pay $825,000 and change several policies to settle a lawsuit brought by journalists who said they were hurt or harassed while covering protests over the police killings of George Floyd...
Feb 10 2022 // Minnesota’s poultry producers are monitoring cases of bird flu found in wild birds in other parts of the United States and Canada.A state veterinarian says it’s an early warning for producers in Minnesota ahead...
Feb 1 2022 // Several businesses, trade groups and social organizations announced the formation of a coalition on Monday opposing legalization of recreational marijuana in Minnesota as the measure’s supporters signal another push...
Jan 3 2022 // A New Year’s Day explosion and fire leveled one Minneapolis garage, set another one ablaze and sent a man to the hospital with serious injuries.The Star Tribune reports that Just after 11 a.m. Saturday, fire crews...
Dec 27 2021 // Minnesota-based Medtronic has agreed to pay $400,000 to South Dakota to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to a neurosurgeon, Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg.The settlement resolves allegations that Medtronic paid...
Dec 9 2021 // Stan Koch and Sons Trucking, based in Minneapolis, will pay $500,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.According to the EEOC’s...
Dec 7 2021 // Snowfall reached nearly 1 foot on Sunday, Dec. 5 in some parts of northern Minnesota. The Minnesota State Patrol reported hundreds of car crashes during the storm. Authorities said 26 of the crashes resulted in injuries,...
Nov 24 2021 // Federal jurors say a Twin Cities plastic surgeon is entitled to nearly $25 million because an emergency medical provider declined to fly him back to the United States after a ziplining injury in Mexico led to a leg...
Nov 10 2021 // Employer Solutions Group, LLC, a payroll services company operating in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has agreed to pay $95,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Oct 28 2021 // Frizzell Furniture, a furniture retailer with locations in northern Minnesota, has agreed to pay $60,000 and has committed to providing training and revising its policies to resolve a finding of gender identity...
Oct 19 2021 // Enbridge has failed to meet a deadline set by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for cleaning up a site where an aquifer ruptured during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline, DNR officials said.The agency had...
Oct 6 2021 // Grange Insurance Co. in Columbus, Ohio, named John North president of Commercial Lines and Cheryl McRae Lebens president of Personal Lines, both effective Jan.1, 2022. Mike Winner retires at the end of the year after seven...
Sep 20 2021 // Minnesota regulators have ordered Enbridge to pay more than $3 million for allegedly violating state environmental law by piercing a groundwater aquifer during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement.The state...
Sep 13 2021 // Authorities said on Sept. 12 that a vast majority of the Greenwood Lake wildfire in northern Minnesota is contained, one month after lighting ignited the blaze in the Superior National Forest.The U.S. Forest Service...
Sep 9 2021 // Federal employment officials say a Minnesota debt collector has settled a lawsuit alleging the company fired Christian employee after he refused to be fingerprinted due to his religious beliefs.AscensionPoint Recovery...
Sep 1 2021 // Officials leading the fight against wildfires in northeastern Minnesota warned Aug. 30 about a new threat: bears attracted by generous donations of food and other supplies.“Donations have far out-stripped our need...
Aug 31 2021 // Minnesota reached 300 traffic accident deaths before Labor Day for the first time in more than a decade, prompting state public safety officials to issue a plea for people to slow down.The state reported its 300th fatality...
Aug 27 2021 // Dozens of homes, cabins and outbuildings have been destroyed or damaged in northeastern Minnesota as the state’s largest wildfire continues burning uncontained, according to Superior National Forest...
Aug 23 2021 // A wildfire in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota has grown to 6 1/4 square miles (16 square kilometers), but U.S. Forest Service officials said on Aug. 19 that it grew little overnight. The Forest...
Aug 19 2021 // A wildfire in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota has grown to 5 square miles (13 square kilometers) as hot, dry and windy conditions persist, officials said.U.S. Forest Service and other crews have been...