Gov. Tim Walz issued an executive order Monday to “safeguard” vaccine access in Minnesota, joining other Democratic-led states in breaking with restrictive eligibility policies unveiled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the newly approved COVID-19 vaccines for the … Continued
The Minnesota Court of Appeals panel has issued the University of St. Thomas at least a partial legal victory in a tussle with neighbors over a new Division I basketball and hockey arena on campus. Homeowners near the St. Paul … Continued
By STEFANIE DAZIO and MALIN HAARALA KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — High atop the Luossavaara Mountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other Indigenous people whose reindeer have roamed this land … Continued
A Forest Lake man has been sentenced to a year in the Ramsey County workhouse and seven years of probation for selling fentanyl-laced heroin to a childhood friend who then overdosed and died at a White Bear Lake hotel in … Continued
By KEN SWEET NEW YORK (AP) — Armen Kirakosian remembers the frustrations of his first job as a call center agent nearly 10 years ago: the aggravated customers, the constant searching through menus for information and the notes he had … Continued
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and JOSHUA GOODMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard detects and detains scores of drug-running vessels in the Caribbean every year in its role as the world’s drug police on the high seas. Now, that anti-narcotics … Continued