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Olympics

Minnesota bars opening extra early Sunday for Team USA’s gold medal hockey game

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Olympics

Minnesota bars opening extra early Sunday for Team USA’s gold medal hockey game

The U.S. men’s hockey team will face Canada with a gold medal on the line at 7:10 a.m. Sunday.

Inside the fight over corporate activism and the Minnesota CEO letter

Vikings

Vikings receiver Moore dead at 25 from suspected suicide

Twin Cities

Hundreds march in south Minneapolis to honor Alex Pretti

Environment

You’ll never guess what’s making those weird blue spots in the snow

Nation

Supreme Court ruling offers little relief for Republicans divided on Trump's tariffs

Strib Varsity

Recap: How Hill-Murray and Breck won state championships

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Strib Varsity

Recap: How Hill-Murray and Breck won state championships

Olympics

Live: Jessie Diggins’ last Olympic race, U.S.-Canada men’s hockey highlight Sunday’s slate

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Olympics

Live: Jessie Diggins’ last Olympic race, U.S.-Canada men’s hockey highlight Sunday’s slate

Twin Cities

German soccer team cancels Minnesota visit due to ICE crackdown

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Twin Cities

German soccer team cancels Minnesota visit due to ICE crackdown

Culture

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Myron Medcalf

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Culture

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Myron Medcalf

2026 Olympics

Minnesota's Winter Olympians

Whether you’re checking in for the morning highlights or tuning in for the gold medal rounds, we've got full coverage of Minnesota’s Olympic athletes in the Milan-Cortina Games.

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Greater Minnesota

Greater Minnesota

Rather than get annexed, this northern Minn. community is becoming its own city

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Greater Minnesota

Rather than get annexed, this northern Minn. community is becoming its own city

For Northern Township, it was a border battle decades in the making that came down to water, both wastewater treatment and protecting the area’s greatest asset: Lake Bemidji.

Business

Duluth’s Cirrus leads U.S. plane sales again in 2025

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Business

Duluth’s Cirrus leads U.S. plane sales again in 2025

Movies

New documentary ‘Under the Rainbow’ sheds fresh light on ruby slipper theft

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Movies

New documentary ‘Under the Rainbow’ sheds fresh light on ruby slipper theft

Greater Minnesota

Rather than get annexed, this northern Minn. community is becoming its own city

Kim Hyatt/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Greater Minnesota

Rather than get annexed, this northern Minn. community is becoming its own city

For Northern Township, it was a border battle decades in the making that came down to water, both wastewater treatment and protecting the area’s greatest asset: Lake Bemidji.

MN Fortune 500

Hormel sells whole-turkey business to another Minnesota company, but Jennie-O remains

Agriculture

USDA giving nearly $240M to sugar producers in boon for Minnesota farmers

Greater Minnesota

Life sentence for Brainerd man in murder and kidnapping case that sparked Amber Alert

Greater Minnesota

How Isle, population 800, became Minnesota’s only city to sign an agreement with ICE

Opinion

Commentaries

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

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Commentaries

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

Proximity to pain is the through-line. Those who don’t have it have been too willing to marginalize it.

Commentaries

Minnesota Human Services Commissioner: What we’ve done — and will do — to fight Medicaid fraud

Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Commentaries

Minnesota Human Services Commissioner: What we’ve done — and will do — to fight Medicaid fraud

Readers Write

Readers Write: Farm labor, ethanol, fraud risk, the SAVE Act

Culture & Politics

Rash: NYT columnist calls out state ‘terror’ in Minnesota

Commentaries

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Commentaries

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

Proximity to pain is the through-line. Those who don’t have it have been too willing to marginalize it.

Readers Write

Readers Write: Farm labor, ethanol, fraud risk, the SAVE Act

Culture & Politics

Rash: NYT columnist calls out state ‘terror’ in Minnesota

Strib Voices

Sports

Reusse: St. Cloud State basketball on the rise, even if locals haven’t noticed

Patrick Reusse

Commentaries

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

Kyndell Harkness

Commentaries

Minnesota Human Services Commissioner: What we’ve done — and will do — to fight Medicaid fraud

Shireen Gandhi

Strib Varsity

Strib Varsity

Showstoppers: The players who stood out on high school hockey’s biggest stage

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Strib Varsity

Showstoppers: The players who stood out on high school hockey’s biggest stage

Meet six players who left their marks on the Class 1A and Class 2A girls hockey state tournaments.

Strib Varsity

Behind freshman goalie, Breck wins Class 1A championship

Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Strib Varsity

Behind freshman goalie, Breck wins Class 1A championship

Strib Varsity

Lauren Hansen wins big-school all-around gymnastics state title

Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Strib Varsity

Lauren Hansen wins big-school all-around gymnastics state title

Strib Varsity

Showstoppers: The players who stood out on high school hockey’s biggest stage

Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Strib Varsity

Showstoppers: The players who stood out on high school hockey’s biggest stage

Meet six players who left their marks on the Class 1A and Class 2A girls hockey state tournaments.

Food & Culture

Culture

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Myron Medcalf

Powell Krueger/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Culture

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Myron Medcalf

A new children’s book tells the story of a bold 1971 experiment to desegregate Minneapolis schools despite fierce resistance.

Music

Review: Richard Egarr leads SPCO in festive, joyous concert

Rob Hubbard

Marco Borggreve/St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

Music

Review: Richard Egarr leads SPCO in festive, joyous concert

Rob Hubbard

Home Gazing

Queen Anne house with stained glass, historic woodwork lists in St. Paul for $775K

Ben Colvin

Home Gazing

Queen Anne house with stained glass, historic woodwork lists in St. Paul for $775K

Culture

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Myron Medcalf

Powell Krueger/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Culture

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Myron Medcalf

A new children’s book tells the story of a bold 1971 experiment to desegregate Minneapolis schools despite fierce resistance.

Games & Comics

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Daily Games

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Arlo and Janis

Daily comic from Jimmy Johnson

Baby Blues

Daily comic from Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Business

Business

Duluth’s Cirrus leads U.S. plane sales again in 2025

The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

Duluth’s Cirrus leads U.S. plane sales again in 2025

The Duluth-based plane maker had another billion-dollar year and topped all U.S. general aviation manufacturers by volume.

MN Fortune 500

Hormel sells whole-turkey business to another Minnesota company, but Jennie-O remains

Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune

MN Fortune 500

Hormel sells whole-turkey business to another Minnesota company, but Jennie-O remains

Agriculture

USDA giving nearly $240M to sugar producers in boon for Minnesota farmers

The Minnesota Star Tribune

Agriculture

USDA giving nearly $240M to sugar producers in boon for Minnesota farmers

Business

Duluth’s Cirrus leads U.S. plane sales again in 2025

The Minnesota Star Tribune

Business

Duluth’s Cirrus leads U.S. plane sales again in 2025

The Duluth-based plane maker had another billion-dollar year and topped all U.S. general aviation manufacturers by volume.

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Elections

Live: Walz pays tribute to Melissa Hortman as lawmakers mourn slain leader

A group of children patiently played with dinosaurs during a GOP precinct caucus for precinct 3 at South View Middle School on March 1, 2016, in Edina, Minn.

Minnesota’s big election year begins: What to know about 2026 precinct caucuses

Why Democrats see Amy Klobuchar as such a formidable candidate for governor

Curious Minnesota

What’s Minnesota’s largest raptor? Hint: it might not be the bald eagle

What’s the story behind the abandoned Cold War station in Finland, Minn.?

What’s the history of the Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory and the Whipple Building?

Culture

Star Tribune file
Hale School had one black family before desegregation in 1971 paired it with heavily black Field School. Hale pupils Ann Mingo, 7, left, and Meg Lawson, 6, arranged a bulletin board in December 1971.

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Review: Richard Egarr leads SPCO in festive, joyous concert

Queen Anne house with stained glass, historic woodwork lists in St. Paul for $775K

Travel

Austin, Texas’ newest hotel has a classic setting

Following ‘Phantom’: How one musical became a reason to travel

Delta to revive nonstop flights from MSP airport to Maui

Health Care

Former Optum employee found guilty of fraud via ‘ghost employee’ scheme

Main entrance to the Gonda Building. For more than a century, the city of Rochester has been shaped and defined by the Mayo Clinic. Now the Mayo has a $6 billion vision to reshape the city and itself.Wednesday, February 21, 2013 ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com ORG XMIT: MIN1302211648220346

Mayo Clinic testing Israeli magnetic-heating technology as cancer treatment

Tariffs are still a thing, and they’re hitting Medtronic’s profit

Outdoor Activities

Dapper little birds, undaunted by subzero winters

Antarctic penguins are breeding earlier, and that could lead to their extinction

Bald eagles congregate on the ice, near an open stretch of the Mississippi River, below Lock and Dam No. 4 on Jan. 2, 2021, in Alma. During winter, much of the river freezes up and so bald eagles congregate near areas where the water is not frozen in order to hunt for food, including fish, which are a large part of their diet.

Minnesota bars opening extra early Sunday for Team USA’s gold medal hockey game

Minnesota bars opening extra early Sunday for Team USA’s gold medal hockey game

Inside the fight over corporate activism and the Minnesota CEO letter

Vikings receiver Moore dead at 25 from suspected suicide

Hundreds march in south Minneapolis to honor Alex Pretti

You’ll never guess what’s making those weird blue spots in the snow

Supreme Court ruling offers little relief for Republicans divided on Trump's tariffs

Recap: How Hill-Murray and Breck won state championships

Recap: How Hill-Murray and Breck won state championships

Live: Jessie Diggins’ last Olympic race, U.S.-Canada men’s hockey highlight Sunday’s slate

Live: Jessie Diggins’ last Olympic race, U.S.-Canada men’s hockey highlight Sunday’s slate

German soccer team cancels Minnesota visit due to ICE crackdown

German soccer team cancels Minnesota visit due to ICE crackdown

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Minnesota's Winter Olympians

Greater Minnesota

Rather than get annexed, this northern Minn. community is becoming its own city

Rather than get annexed, this northern Minn. community is becoming its own city

Duluth’s Cirrus leads U.S. plane sales again in 2025

Duluth’s Cirrus leads U.S. plane sales again in 2025

New documentary ‘Under the Rainbow’ sheds fresh light on ruby slipper theft

New documentary ‘Under the Rainbow’ sheds fresh light on ruby slipper theft

Rather than get annexed, this northern Minn. community is becoming its own city

Rather than get annexed, this northern Minn. community is becoming its own city

Hormel sells whole-turkey business to another Minnesota company, but Jennie-O remains

USDA giving nearly $240M to sugar producers in boon for Minnesota farmers

Life sentence for Brainerd man in murder and kidnapping case that sparked Amber Alert

How Isle, population 800, became Minnesota’s only city to sign an agreement with ICE

Opinion

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

Minnesota Human Services Commissioner: What we’ve done — and will do — to fight Medicaid fraud

Minnesota Human Services Commissioner: What we’ve done — and will do — to fight Medicaid fraud

Readers Write: Farm labor, ethanol, fraud risk, the SAVE Act

Rash: NYT columnist calls out state ‘terror’ in Minnesota

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

Readers Write: Farm labor, ethanol, fraud risk, the SAVE Act

Rash: NYT columnist calls out state ‘terror’ in Minnesota

Strib Voices

Reusse: St. Cloud State basketball on the rise, even if locals haven’t noticed

Opinion | You can’t be a Black journalist and not reflect on the road that brought us to 2026

Minnesota Human Services Commissioner: What we’ve done — and will do — to fight Medicaid fraud

Strib Varsity

Showstoppers: The players who stood out on high school hockey’s biggest stage

Showstoppers: The players who stood out on high school hockey’s biggest stage

Behind freshman goalie, Breck wins Class 1A championship

Behind freshman goalie, Breck wins Class 1A championship

Lauren Hansen wins big-school all-around gymnastics state title

Lauren Hansen wins big-school all-around gymnastics state title

Showstoppers: The players who stood out on high school hockey’s biggest stage

Showstoppers: The players who stood out on high school hockey’s biggest stage

Recap: How Hill-Murray and Breck won state championships

Watch two huge semis today here: Boys hockey showdowns streaming on Strib Varsity

Hill-Murray, Centennial/Spring Lake Park to meet for girls hockey 2A title

Monticello wins big-school state tournament; Detroit Lakes defends 1A title

Food & Culture

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Review: Richard Egarr leads SPCO in festive, joyous concert

Review: Richard Egarr leads SPCO in festive, joyous concert

Queen Anne house with stained glass, historic woodwork lists in St. Paul for $775K

Queen Anne house with stained glass, historic woodwork lists in St. Paul for $775K

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

Medcalf: The Black history many Minnesotans can’t bear to see

A different Brandi Carlile heads to Minneapolis with a message

With its Latino customer base staying home, Mercado Central gets a lunchtime boost from retirement and church groups

The 5 best things our food writers ate this week

Fun facts about Minnesota Wild’s Quinn Hughes, now an Olympic star

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