Dan Gunderson

Numerous studies have found the chemicals harm bees and other pollinators.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to designate 1.6 million acres of critical habitat for the rusty patched bumble bee in six states, including Minnesota.

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Arn Kind turned his passion for the past into a second career making history entertaining and educational in school classrooms and small town libraries across Minnesota. From Vikings to the voyageurs to Vietnam, he delivers lessons like few others.

To the beat of drum-heavy Nordic music, Arn Kind steps in front of an audience of about 20 people in the basement of the Elysian public library. He’s dressed in

Columnist, county commissioner and former farmer Brent Olson is a “bleeding heart liberal” in the middle of rural Minnesota Trump country. He tries to bridge that political and social gap in his national writing and through his local community work.

In every corner of Minnesota, there are good stories waiting to be told of places that make our state great and people who in Walt Whitman's words “contribute a verse” each day.

Minnesota officials hope a new grant program will jump start a green fertilizer industry in the state.

The Piney Pinecreek airport is closing because of low use and the need for costly repairs. The northern Minnesota airport boasts the only paved runway crossing the U.S. Canada border. Courtesy MnDOT

Canada geese hunker down in a parking lot at Silver Lake Park in Rochester during a winter storm in December 2015. Alex Kolyer for MPR News file