Amanda Anderson

Walz’s surprise announcement upended Minnesota’s political scene, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar is said to be seriously considering jumping into the race. Walz, who said he concluded he couldn’t give his all to the campaign, has been under increased scrutiny from fraud in state programs.

At last week’s No Kings rallyon March 28, more than 150 people carried a giant replica of the Constitution of the United States and 50 large and 100 small handmade monarch butterfly puppets. The Constitution navigated twists and turns through big crowds as it journeyed from Western Sculpture Park, where many people signed it, to the State Capitol in St. Paul.

To get a sense of the danger politicians are facing, the Star Tribune requested service calls to the homes of more than 200 elected officials in 2024 and part of 2025, amounting to 226 addresses. The reports show a wide range of threats at lawmakers’ homes, at public events and online.

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More details about what led to a stay of proceedings in a sexual assault case against the leader of a spiritual group and his wife have emerged.

A trial started Monday for the owner of two dogs that killed an 11-year-old boy from B.C.

On day two of a criminal negligence trial, court heard from two more witnesses about attacks involving two dogs that later killed an 11-year-old boy from BC.

A man who dropped a dumbbell off an Edmonton overpass, injuring a woman, was sentenced Thursday afternoon.

In March 2025, Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs idled two Minnesota mining operations: Hibbing Taconite Co. in Hibbing and the Minorca Mine in Virginia. 600 steelworkers lost their jobs.Al King, president of the union representing the steelworkers at Cleveland-Cliffs' Minorca Mine, pushed for extended unemployment benefits, but those are now set to expire in June. Many hoped the mine would reopen and Cleveland-Cliffs would call the laid-off miners back, but that has become a pipe dream. King is a second-generation miner, and he wants to be sure there are employment opportunities on the Iron Range for his four kids when they grow up. From pushing for investment in job diversity to helping people navigate the changing job situation, King has been thrust into a world of advocacy for the Range.Other families, like the Salinases, have decided to leave the Range, seeking better opportunities elsewhere. After a 14-year career at the Minorca Mine, Roy Salinas has decided to take a job out of state. His wife, Missy, was born and raised on the Range, but they no longer see the area as one that can provide a solid future for their family.While it's impossible to know the full economic impact shuttering the mines will have, King sees parallels in his hometown of Orr. Just 44 miles north of Virginia, Minn., Orr was once a thriving town supported by the logging industry but is now a ghost of its former self. What will happen when a town supported by mining shuts down its mines?