Mpls. Mayor Hodges to attend climate-change summit in N.Y.
The September summit will occur in conjunction with a larger United Nations event.
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Gallery: Renaissance Festival
The 45th season of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival is underway in Shakopee, with the theme this weekend being "Silk Road: Discover the Riches."
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Exploring the legal trade in at-risk wildlife
This is not the highly publicized, illicit trafficking in such goods as ivory and rhino horns. Millions of vulnerable wildlife specimens are legally admitted through U.S. customs each year.
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The fine art of eating gross amounts of food
In the end you eat too much, throw away less than you'd like, and wish that someone would put motor oil down by the transit plaza so you could be dragged by a rope to the bus.
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Duluth enjoying a new image, and it's been long in the making
Such positive attention is the envy of midsize cities across America. So how did Duluth do it? City leaders started long, long ago with careful plans, lots of patience and, most recently, loud cheerleading.
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Misdiagnoses are getting a closer look with help of local doctor
Doctors and safety advocates have targeted many causes of patient harm — such as bungled prescriptions, excessive imaging scans and wrong-site surgeries — but have given little attention to an equally common cause: making the wrong diagnosis.
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Motorcyclist killed in Washington County crash
The fatal crash occurred just before 8 p.m. on Saturday.
Lion trophies just a drop in vast exotic species trade
Vulnerable but coveted, animals and plants at risk of being endangered are traded into the U.S. every year, and it's completely legal.
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Gallery: Carrie Underwood performs to a sold-out crowd
Carrie Underwood performs to a sold-out crowd at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights August 29, 2015.
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Following national trend, nonprofits grow in Minnesota's smallest towns
Rural counties have seen number of organizations rise even as populations have fallen
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Gallery: Duluth, a rebirth on Lake Superior
So many towns in Minnesota are constantly trying to remake themselves. It's working in Duluth.
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