Kirsti Marohn

Environmental advocates are tapping into Minnesotans’ passion for loons to focus attention on how lake health and natural shorelines are vital for the survival of Minnesota’s beloved state bird.

Xcel Energy is proposing a new rate plan that would charge customers a higher rate for electricity they use during peak hours, and less at night. Hannah Yang | MPR News

Customers will now have to opt in to pay lower price during off-peak hours.

Richard and Mary Gallea spent 20 years transforming their property on the Sauk River Chain of Lakes to a colorful native landscape. It’s helped to keep their lake clean. Here’s how they did it.

It will be the first time Minnesota has required an industry to limit PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, in its wastewater. 3M’s Cottage Grove plant, the epicenter of the global PFAS problem, has been operating under a permit than expired more than 20 years ago.

"We know a lot of our patients end up leaving our service area to go to find the care that they need,” said Dave Larson, vice president of facilities

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In July 2023, a Stearns County jury found Jairo Fernandez Sorto guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for abusing a teenage girl for years starting when she was 8. Stearns County’s facility dog, Nova, was present in the courtroom as the 15-year-old testified.

The DNR says starry stonewort was found in Rush Lake, near the city of Crosslake in Crow Wing County. It’s the first time the invasive algae has been confirmed in the Whitefish chain.

In Minnesota, there's no law allowing facility dogs in court, but none banning them, either.