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Allegations of racial profiling of U.S. citizens on the rise as ICE surge expands in Minnesota

News & Politics

Allegations of racial profiling of U.S. citizens on the rise as ICE surge expands in Minnesota

People of color describe being stopped, questioned or detained by immigration agents despite being U.S. citizens, raising civil liberties concerns.

Debate grows in protest movement over how hard to push back against ICE

Michael Tessier/CBS

TV and Media

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

News outlets are turning to local personalities in the wake of the ICE shooting.

Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Twin Cities Suburbs

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We tested 10 municipal play areas around the metro that get kids’ energy out for $10 or less.

Tom Wallace/The Minnesota Star Tribune

This Week In Nature

Birch trees’ thin white bark helps with winter photosynthesis

Plentiful in boreal forests, the trees nourish moose, sapsuckers and luna moth caterpillars.

Jeff Wheeler/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Columnists

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Aaron Brown

The 1916 miners’ strike showed the depths of division a community can sink to — and yet recover.

Twin Cities

The latest: 1,500 paratroopers put on alert for possible Minnesota deployment, ABC News reports

Greater Minnesota

‘We don’t want to be like Minneapolis’: Feelings on ICE surge reveal deep divide across state

Minneapolis

Jake Lang’s anti-Islam rally chased off by Minneapolis protesters

News & Politics

Why videos of ICE in Minnesota are a ‘breakthrough moment’ online

Editor's Pick

Twin Cities small business owners say Amazon’s AI lists their products without consent

Michael Tessier/CBS

TV and Media

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

News outlets are turning to local personalities in the wake of the ICE shooting.

Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Twin Cities Suburbs

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

We tested 10 municipal play areas around the metro that get kids’ energy out for $10 or less.

Tom Wallace/The Minnesota Star Tribune

This Week In Nature

Birch trees’ thin white bark helps with winter photosynthesis

Plentiful in boreal forests, the trees nourish moose, sapsuckers and luna moth caterpillars.

Jeff Wheeler/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Columnists

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Aaron Brown

The 1916 miners’ strike showed the depths of division a community can sink to — and yet recover.

Eat & Drink

Minnesota's best supper clubs

Popovers, prime rib, relish trays, grasshoppers and nostalgia — you’ll want to gas up the car before reading.

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Greater Minnesota

Duluth

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

Duluth

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

No injuries were reported but more than 600 Minnesota Energy Resources customers were without heat.

Greater Minnesota

‘We don’t want to be like Minneapolis’: Feelings on ICE surge reveal deep divide across state

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Greater Minnesota

‘We don’t want to be like Minneapolis’: Feelings on ICE surge reveal deep divide across state

News & Politics

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

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News & Politics

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

Duluth

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

Duluth

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

No injuries were reported but more than 600 Minnesota Energy Resources customers were without heat.

Greater Minnesota

ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers

St. Cloud

Man allegedly driving again without license when he hit, killed woman crossing Minnesota road

Greater Minnesota

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

Agriculture

Willmar bird flu laboratory gets reprieve from USDA funding hit

Opinion

Commentaries

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Commentaries

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Pending legislation would turn a federal “no” on mining in the Boundary Waters into a congressional “proceed.”

Columnists

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Aaron Brown

Jeff Wheeler/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Columnists

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Aaron Brown

Commentaries

Opinion | Minnesotans seem to be done playing ‘Minnesota Nice’

Readers Write

Readers Write: Immigration enforcement limits, eye health

Commentaries

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Commentaries

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Pending legislation would turn a federal “no” on mining in the Boundary Waters into a congressional “proceed.”

Commentaries

Opinion | Minnesotans seem to be done playing ‘Minnesota Nice’

Readers Write

Readers Write: Immigration enforcement limits, eye health

Strib Voices

Commentaries

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Paul Douglas

Iron Range

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Aaron Brown

Commentaries

Opinion | Minnesotans seem to be done playing ‘Minnesota Nice’

Shannon Gibney

Strib Varsity

Strib Varsity

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Chuck Burton

Strib Varsity

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Crosby-Ironton’s Tori Oehrlein and Providence Academy’s Maddyn Greenway are both closing in on Rebekah Dahlman's career mark of 5,060 points.

Strib Varsity

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Strib Varsity

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Strib Varsity

Top 25: See which team moved into the No.1 spot in the Minnesota

Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Strib Varsity

Top 25: See which team moved into the No.1 spot in the Minnesota

Strib Varsity

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Chuck Burton

Strib Varsity

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Crosby-Ironton’s Tori Oehrlein and Providence Academy’s Maddyn Greenway are both closing in on Rebekah Dahlman's career mark of 5,060 points.

Food & Culture

Twin Cities Suburbs

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Twin Cities Suburbs

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

We tested 10 municipal play areas around the metro that get kids’ energy out for $10 or less.

TV and Media

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

Michael Tessier/CBS

TV and Media

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

Music

Review: Alina Ibragimova performs Mozart violin concerto with SPCO

Rob Hubbard

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Music

Review: Alina Ibragimova performs Mozart violin concerto with SPCO

Rob Hubbard

Twin Cities Suburbs

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Twin Cities Suburbs

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

We tested 10 municipal play areas around the metro that get kids’ energy out for $10 or less.

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Business

Editor's Pick

Twin Cities small business owners say Amazon’s AI lists their products without consent

Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Editor's Pick

Twin Cities small business owners say Amazon’s AI lists their products without consent

Minnesota jewelry designer Emily Johnson is among those upset with Amazon over its new AI feature, which uses product images and descriptions from their websites.

News & Politics

Struggling for support: Minnesota’s nonprofits serving communities of color react to funding loss

Aaron Nesheim/Sahan Journal

News & Politics

Struggling for support: Minnesota’s nonprofits serving communities of color react to funding loss

Business

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Evan Ramstad

Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population

Evan Ramstad

Editor's Pick

Twin Cities small business owners say Amazon’s AI lists their products without consent

Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Editor's Pick

Twin Cities small business owners say Amazon’s AI lists their products without consent

Minnesota jewelry designer Emily Johnson is among those upset with Amazon over its new AI feature, which uses product images and descriptions from their websites.

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Culture

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Allegations of racial profiling of U.S. citizens on the rise as ICE surge expands in Minnesota

Allegations of racial profiling of U.S. citizens on the rise as ICE surge expands in Minnesota

How the arrival of thousands of federal agents has shaken Minnesota

Debate grows in protest movement over how hard to push back against ICE

How the arrival of thousands of federal agents has shaken Minnesota

Debate grows in protest movement over how hard to push back against ICE

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

Birch trees’ thin white bark helps with winter photosynthesis

Birch trees’ thin white bark helps with winter photosynthesis

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

The latest: 1,500 paratroopers put on alert for possible Minnesota deployment, ABC News reports

‘We don’t want to be like Minneapolis’: Feelings on ICE surge reveal deep divide across state

Jake Lang’s anti-Islam rally chased off by Minneapolis protesters

Why videos of ICE in Minnesota are a ‘breakthrough moment’ online

Editor's Pick

Twin Cities small business owners say Amazon’s AI lists their products without consent

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

Birch trees’ thin white bark helps with winter photosynthesis

Birch trees’ thin white bark helps with winter photosynthesis

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Minnesota's best supper clubs

Greater Minnesota

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

‘We don’t want to be like Minneapolis’: Feelings on ICE surge reveal deep divide across state

‘We don’t want to be like Minneapolis’: Feelings on ICE surge reveal deep divide across state

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

Transit providers say fraud claims could threaten a struggling industry, especially in rural Minnesota

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

Natural gas pipeline explosion rocks east-central Minnesota town

ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers

Man allegedly driving again without license when he hit, killed woman crossing Minnesota road

Tolkkinen: Who did ICE take from a Perham company? The agency wouldn’t tell me.

Willmar bird flu laboratory gets reprieve from USDA funding hit

Opinion

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Opinion | Minnesotans seem to be done playing ‘Minnesota Nice’

Readers Write: Immigration enforcement limits, eye health

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Opinion | Minnesotans seem to be done playing ‘Minnesota Nice’

Readers Write: Immigration enforcement limits, eye health

Strib Voices

Paul Douglas: My eyes are wide open to Boundary Waters threats

Brown: Our weary state must find shared reality amid chaos and fear

Opinion | Minnesotans seem to be done playing ‘Minnesota Nice’

Strib Varsity

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Gophers recruit Tori Oehrlein is second Minnesota girls basketball player to score 5,000 points

Top 25: See which team moved into the No.1 spot in the Minnesota

Top 25: See which team moved into the No.1 spot in the Minnesota

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Dahlman ready to see her girls basketball record broken — twice

Top 25: Don’t call it an upset … it's just Class 4A basketball

Talking hockey: Why the sport is so unique on the border in International Falls

Twenty athletes who defined Minnesota high school wrestling the past 25 years

What are Shattuck-St. Mary’s secrets? Meet the man who knows them all

Food & Culture

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

Jacob Frey, Liz Collin raise national profile through TV news

Review: Alina Ibragimova performs Mozart violin concerto with SPCO

Review: Alina Ibragimova performs Mozart violin concerto with SPCO

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

Wondering what to do indoors with kids on a cold day? Visit one of these indoor Twin Cities playgrounds.

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