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Laura Yuen

Culture

Yuen: Teacher helped thousands of Minnesotans who are blind learn how to navigate life

Laura Yuen

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Chanhassen wonders what to do with clocktower that can’t tell time

Gophers

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Greater Minnesota

Environment

To protect wild rice, Minnesota moves to cut off pollution from taconite basins

Environment

To protect wild rice, Minnesota moves to cut off pollution from taconite basins

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is trying to enforce a sulfate limit at U.S. Steel’s Keetac basin, one of six that leak the substance.

Greater Minnesota

Tolkkinen: Rural radio stations are reeling from federal funding cuts

Karen Tolkkinen

Greater Minnesota

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Karen Tolkkinen

Duluth

These swimmers plan to finish the job started by the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975

Duluth

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Environment

To protect wild rice, Minnesota moves to cut off pollution from taconite basins

Environment

To protect wild rice, Minnesota moves to cut off pollution from taconite basins

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is trying to enforce a sulfate limit at U.S. Steel’s Keetac basin, one of six that leak the substance.

Greater Minnesota

Brooks: Minnesota works to woo back Canadian visitors

Greater Minnesota

Man who put murder victim’s body in container, dumped it near Minnesota lake is sentenced

Rochester

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Minnesota regulators bash electric co-op for threatening to cut tribal casino’s power

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Commentaries

Opinion | Minnesota’s NYSE moment was more than pageantry — it was a wake-up call

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John Rash

Columnists

Rash: Public media cuts may hit rural America the hardest

John Rash

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Commentaries

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Commentaries

Opinion | Minnesota’s NYSE moment was more than pageantry — it was a wake-up call

Commentaries

Opinion | Minnesota’s NYSE moment was more than pageantry — it was a wake-up call

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Commentaries

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Commentaries

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Sports

RandBall: Where, when and why did the Twins’ plan go off the rails?

Michael RandColumnist / Reporter

Business

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Evan RamstadColumnist

Columnists

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John RashEditorial Columnist

Sports

Sports

RandBall: Where, when and why did the Twins’ plan go off the rails?

Michael Rand

Pitchers have been injured or underperformed. Young hitters have stalled. Add it up, and Michael Rand details the Twins’ disappointment in today’s 10 things to know.

Gophers

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Lynx

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Sports

Kurt Kitayama wins 3M Open by going 17 under par the final two days

Food & Culture

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Things To Do

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Watch a movie on Lake Harriet, catch up on "Bachelor in Paradise" with fellow fans and dance the night away at a disco party.

Movies

Jack Nicholson’s cap played a role in retired Northfield teacher’s mission to sell hot dogs

Movies

Jack Nicholson’s cap played a role in retired Northfield teacher’s mission to sell hot dogs

Culture

Yuen: Teacher helped thousands of Minnesotans who are blind learn how to navigate life

Laura Yuen

Culture

Yuen: Teacher helped thousands of Minnesotans who are blind learn how to navigate life

Laura Yuen

Things To Do

9 free events in the Twin Cities this week

Things To Do

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Watch a movie on Lake Harriet, catch up on "Bachelor in Paradise" with fellow fans and dance the night away at a disco party.

News & Politics

Weather

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Nation

Pilot on Delta flight from Twin Cities to San Francisco is arrested on child porn allegations

Twin Cities Suburbs

Tiny homes cause a stir in some Twin Cities suburbs, but few actually built

Twin Cities

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Business

Business

Food waste from 3M Open PGA Tour stop will become electricity

Business

Food waste from 3M Open PGA Tour stop will become electricity

Western Wisconsin firm Viresco, with a recent expansion, will turn the waste to biogas then energy for Xcel.

Business

UnitedHealth's stock has been cut in half. Is it still a good deal?

Evan Ramstad

Business

UnitedHealth's stock has been cut in half. Is it still a good deal?

Evan Ramstad

Health Care

Mayo, Nvidia launch AI supercomputer to diagnose diseases more quickly

Health Care

Mayo, Nvidia launch AI supercomputer to diagnose diseases more quickly

Business

Food waste from 3M Open PGA Tour stop will become electricity

Business

Food waste from 3M Open PGA Tour stop will become electricity

Western Wisconsin firm Viresco, with a recent expansion, will turn the waste to biogas then energy for Xcel.

Outdoors

This Week In Nature

Chanterelles and other tasty mushrooms are popping up around Minnesota

The state’s widest variety of tasty wild mushrooms pop up mid-summer through fall.

Environment

Anderson: Stop mowing roadsides and hurting our wildlife

Dennis Anderson

Outdoors

Slow-biting walleyes mean anglers can keep more on Mille Lacs

Books

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Culture

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The Latest

RandBall: Where, when and why did the Twins’ plan go off the rails?

9 free events in the Twin Cities this week

Israeli strikes kill 36 in Gaza, including a mother and newborn, as more aid is allowed in

UnitedHealth's stock has been cut in half. Is it still a good deal?

Hwy. 14 near Owatonna closed after fatal crash involving semi

Temu accused by EU regulators of failing to prevent sale of illegal products

Jack Nicholson’s cap played a role in retired Northfield teacher’s mission to sell hot dogs

Burnsville’s Ellie Palmer on her joke-packed romance ‘Anywhere With You’

Passengers flee smoking jet on emergency slide after apparent landing gear problem at Denver airport

Souhan: How the 3M Open can bring more life to the green

Israel begins daily pause in fighting in 3 Gaza areas to allow 'minimal' aid as hunger grows

Interest in Twins players figures to be high at trade deadline, but Derek Falvey doesn’t tip his hand

Authorities seek to file terrorism and assault charges against suspect in Walmart knife attack

Boy pulled from lake dies of complications after field trip to Hennepin County beach

Gophers’ Ziemer ranks as a veteran at World Junior Summer Showcase at Ridder Arena

Prison for man who grabbed 12-year-old girl from her Minneapolis backyard, raped her

Trump’s demand for Washington NFL team name change ignores years of psychological data, experts say

Souhan: Vikings pessimism is a good break and a wrong take

Yeboah’s two second-half penalty kicks carry Loons past St. Louis

Bhatia, Olesen at top of crowded leaderboard at 3M Open

Mayo, Nvidia launch AI supercomputer to diagnose diseases more quickly

Mayo, Nvidia launch AI supercomputer to diagnose diseases more quickly

More severe weather could hit Minnesota after storms trigger power outages

Did storms knock a tree onto your property? Here’s what you can do.

Fees set to double for road test no-shows, late cancellations

Tiny homes cause a stir in some Twin Cities suburbs, but few actually built

Pilot on Delta flight from Twin Cities to San Francisco is arrested on child porn allegations

Jack Nicholson’s cap played a role in retired Northfield teacher’s mission to sell hot dogs

Jack Nicholson’s cap played a role in retired Northfield teacher’s mission to sell hot dogs

Yuen: Teacher helped thousands of Minnesotans who are blind learn how to navigate life

Yuen: Teacher helped thousands of Minnesotans who are blind learn how to navigate life

Chanhassen wonders what to do with clocktower that can’t tell time

Chanhassen wonders what to do with clocktower that can’t tell time

Five story lines to watch as Gophers football practice gets underway

Five story lines to watch as Gophers football practice gets underway

Greater Minnesota

To protect wild rice, Minnesota moves to cut off pollution from taconite basins

To protect wild rice, Minnesota moves to cut off pollution from taconite basins

Tolkkinen: Rural radio stations are reeling from federal funding cuts

Tolkkinen: Rural radio stations are reeling from federal funding cuts

These swimmers plan to finish the job started by the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975

These swimmers plan to finish the job started by the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975

To protect wild rice, Minnesota moves to cut off pollution from taconite basins

To protect wild rice, Minnesota moves to cut off pollution from taconite basins

Brooks: Minnesota works to woo back Canadian visitors

Man who put murder victim’s body in container, dumped it near Minnesota lake is sentenced

Suit challenging Rochester City Council member’s residency fizzles in court

Minnesota regulators bash electric co-op for threatening to cut tribal casino’s power

Opinion

Opinion | Minnesota’s NYSE moment was more than pageantry — it was a wake-up call

Opinion | Minnesota’s NYSE moment was more than pageantry — it was a wake-up call

Rash: Public media cuts may hit rural America the hardest

Rash: Public media cuts may hit rural America the hardest

Opinion | My effort to transform an old JCPenney store into a local arts hub

Opinion | As U students get hit with a new fee to pay for sports, here’s my two cents

Opinion | Minnesota’s NYSE moment was more than pageantry — it was a wake-up call

Opinion | Minnesota’s NYSE moment was more than pageantry — it was a wake-up call

Opinion | My effort to transform an old JCPenney store into a local arts hub

Opinion | As U students get hit with a new fee to pay for sports, here’s my two cents

Strib Voices

RandBall: Where, when and why did the Twins’ plan go off the rails?

UnitedHealth's stock has been cut in half. Is it still a good deal?

Rash: Public media cuts may hit rural America the hardest

Sports

RandBall: Where, when and why did the Twins’ plan go off the rails?

RandBall: Where, when and why did the Twins’ plan go off the rails?

Five story lines to watch as Gophers football practice gets underway

Griner, Dream hand Lynx first home loss of regular season

Kurt Kitayama wins 3M Open by going 17 under par the final two days

Food & Culture

9 free events in the Twin Cities this week

9 free events in the Twin Cities this week

Jack Nicholson’s cap played a role in retired Northfield teacher’s mission to sell hot dogs

Jack Nicholson’s cap played a role in retired Northfield teacher’s mission to sell hot dogs

Yuen: Teacher helped thousands of Minnesotans who are blind learn how to navigate life

Yuen: Teacher helped thousands of Minnesotans who are blind learn how to navigate life

9 free events in the Twin Cities this week

9 free events in the Twin Cities this week

Let the good times roll at these 3 Twin Cities party restaurants