Just in time for Earth Day, the Associated Press carried a story Thursday about a crew of people who returned from a three week cleanup effort in the northernmost islands of the Hawaiian archipelago. The group spent their time working at the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, 1,300 ...

Minnesota’s Walter “Fritz” Mondale died Monday at the age of 93. He should be remembered as a politician and statesman who brought a uniquely Minnesota flavor to the profession of politics. He was a small town from Elmore, to his lifetime of service as a state attorney general, a U.S. ...

Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday on all three counts of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd last May. Chauvin’s guilt was decided by the 12 jurors in the Hennepin County courthouse, but it was established last May, when video shot by a ...

Another mass shooting, this time at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, killed eight people last week Thursday night before the gunman turned his gun on himself. Again, the shooter appears to be someone with enough red flags surrounding him to preclude him being able to get guns legally. Yet ...

The Twin Cities are waiting for the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. In the meantime, Brooklyn Center has been the focus of nightly protests outside of police headquarters after the shooting of Daunte Wright last week on Sunday. The state is on edge. The nation is on edge as it awaits the ...

When is a town just too small for its citizens to expect accountability from its taxpayer-paid leaders? Never? That would be our answer, too. But under current Minnesota law, residents of small cities — those with fewer than 7,500 people — have less access to information about the ...