Inspired
Healing hands in Guatemala as Mankato-based Minnesota Doctors for People returns
It signals a hopeful return of medical volunteers to the developing world.
Rochester
Rochester neighbors want woman to tear down her half-built dream home
A divorce halted construction on a couple's dream home. Neighbors call it a dangerous eyesore and want it torn down.
Rochester
Rescheduled Center of the American Experiment event draws crowd in Rochester
Conservative think tank's "Crime Crisis" event highlighted how public distrust in policing affects departments across Minnesota.
Rochester
Limiting goose population — and their messes — paying off in Rochester
The city found about four times as many nests last year.
Local
Austin's increasing diversity brings growth and challenges
Efforts to make the city and schools more welcoming are starting to pick up again after being stalled by the pandemic.
Duluth
Duluth gets blight-reduction grant
Duluth is one of eight cities across the nation to receive a two-year $100,000 blight reduction grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. It's part of the "Love…
Rochester
'Thank you very much for this': Brothers mark rare anniversary
While there are examples of long-term transplant patients who never need another kidney, two Rochester brothers who have gone 40 years without needing another operation after one donated a kidney to save the other are an anomaly.
Local
Target in federal meals program investigation charged with passport fraud
Agents arrested Mohamed Jama Ismail as he attempted to board an overseas flight.
Rochester
Rochester moving forward on municipal IDs
The free IDs would be issued by the city's library system.
Rochester
Officials break ground on final leg of Hwy. 14 expansion between Rochester and New Ulm
When completed, Hwy. 14 will be four lanes between New Ulm and Rochester.
Business
Mayo Clinic investing $49 million to expand lab operation in Rochester
Construction is underway at a facility that saw a surge in demand for testing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Colleges
Hobey Baker-winning goalie McKay gets six-month doping suspension
Dryden McKay led Minnesota State to a second-place finish in the NCAA men's hockey tournament earlier this month, including a semifinal victory over the Gophers.
Rochester
Fire damages Rochester church
A sprinkler system helped contain the blaze at Peace United Church of Christ.
Colleges
Reusse: McNeely symbolizes Minnesota State Mankato's hockey rise
A Lakeville North product, Jack McNeely exits the Mavericks program 26 years old and not ready to stop playing the game.
Rochester
Minnesota briefs: Center of the American Experiment reschedules Rochester event after cancelation
East Grand Forks looks at improvements to its transit system.
West Metro
Crashes in Carver, Mower counties leave 2 motorists dead
The victims are a 61-year-old man from Waltham, Minn., and a 53-year-old man from Silver Lake, Minn.
Local
'Waiting to see': Cleanup, insurance weigh heavily on Taopi residents
Ten out of 24 homes in town destroyed
Rochester
Tornado flattens Taopi in Mower County: 'Half the town is gone'
Homes were destroyed and residents evacuated from the town of about 80 people southeast of Austin, Minn.
Local
Tornadoes spotted in southern Minnesota, straight-line winds topple nine semis on I-35
Large hail reported in several towns.
Rochester
No charges for Austin police officer in fatal shooting
Olmsted County Attorney says evidence doesn't support prosecution.
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