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Minnesota cities prep for worst as spring, snowmelt bring flood threat

Prairie Island Indian Community shows what is at stake with planning efforts.
  • Prairie Island Indian Community prepares for flooding
  • Flooding could delay spring planting, but that's still a month off
Politics

Gov. Tim Walz takes his gas tax push on the road to Anoka

  • Gov. Tim Walz to press for budget plan in first State of the State
Realtor Clay Lowen, center, showed a home in Robbinsdale to first-time homeowners Brandon Chheoun and Gina Solt earlier in the month.
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Twin Cities housing market gets even tighter as new listings lag

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Local

Minn. lawmakers aim to reduce salt runoff from sidewalks

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Former AGs Lori Swanson, Mike Hatch to open Mpls. law firm

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Catie Lonergan, a senior at St. Francis High School, on Monday made parts for MnDOT that will be used on street light fixtures.
Jerry Holt, Star Tribune
Catie Lonergan, a senior at St. Francis High School, made parts for MnDOT that will be used on street light fixtures.

St. Francis students score big by turning out parts for MnDOT

They're rethinking the bounds of high school shop class.
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The Vikings need quality offensive linemen, but General Manager Rick Spielman hasn't done much for that position thus far in the offseason.
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Pastor Paul Marzhan has a new role as a church flipper, even getting a real estate license to resurrect old spaces like this former Catholic Charities

Minnesota church flipper gives empty religious buildings new life

Pastor Paul Marzahn finds a mission matching empty buildings and congregations. It's work that might soon get a wider audience via TV.
A bumblebee in Susan Damon’s pollinator-friendly in St. Paul in 2014.
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Pollinator-friendly yards could get help from the state of Minnesota

  • Special report: Bees at the Brink
A New York-made Juicy Lucy at a Texas-style barbecue restaurant opening in Staten Island.
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A Minnesota dairy barn built in 1942. It’s been a hard winter for dairy barns here, though the author suggests older ones were built “right” for

Perhaps snow isn't the real burden on those collapsing barns in Minnesota

Perhaps it's the way we've changed farming.

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Watch St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter jump out of an airplane

00:50Mayor Melvin Carter and snowmobile racer Levi LaVallee dropped out of an airplane at 12,000 feet and parachuted to Harriet Island on Tuesday morning to announce Red Bull's Flugtag will come to St. Paul on Sept. 7.

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