Mpls. struggles to build a more inviting downtown, with room to, well, sit
You can find a seat downtown, if you know where to look. You just have to navigate blocks of seatless streets and charmless plazas to get there.
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Portrait of champion livestock is this year's Minnesota State Fair highlighted art
For the first time, official artwork is a photograph.
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Pedestrian standing on tracks is fatally hit by freight train in NW. Minnesota
The incident occurred early Sunday in Frazee.
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2 of 4 teens in car are killed in collision with camper on Iron Range
The crash occurred about 13 miles west of Hibbing, according to the State Patrol.
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Landmark farm rule aims to protect Minnesota's drinking water
Hoping to cut nitrate levels in drinking supply, Minnesota regulating fertilizer use
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Trump must hold rural Wis. voters he won on economic promises
Trump's shot at a second term could come down to parts of rural Wisconsin, where the economy is always on people's minds and threatened tariffs on Mexico could cause new woes.
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'Road diets' gain traction in safety planning by metro counties
Counties cutting lanes on busy streets to protect drivers and pedestrians.
E-mails reveal U's rushed effort to rename 4 Twin Cities buildings
Intense deadline pressure, hurdles to tracking down records and skepticism about administrator support plagued a task force that weighed renaming the buildings.
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Top cop John Harrington charts a path for change in Minnesota
John Harrington wants to scale up the ethos of community policing to a vast wing of government serving law enforcement from Duluth to Albert Lea.
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Scandia group proposing tourism upgrades, including arts and heritage center
Washington County town considers reconstructing a structure from its past.
Virginia Beach shooting sparks call for more security at Mpls. City Hall
After Virginia Beach shootings, council member calls for guarded entries, other changes.
Duluth's new boat helps fight fires from Lake Superior
Duluth vessel equipped for fire, medical, environmental response
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Rep. Ilhan Omar jointly filed tax returns prior to legal marriage
Questions about Omar's complicated marriage and immigration history resurfaced Thursday when a state campaign finance board revealed that she and Ahmed Hirsi filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 — a period when she was legally married to another man.
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