Kirsti Marohn

Sidii ay u soo badaneysay tirada Soomaalida ee Minnesota, waxay u muuqdaan dad adeegsan kara cudud siyaasadeed. Si gaar ah St.

A central Minnesota dairy farm will pay $250,000 to settle a wage-theft claim made by the state attorney general's office.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced it's linked PFAS contamination in one of Hastings’ wells to 3M's Cottage Grove facility. City officials say the money will help, but won’t cover the full $70 million to build three new treatment plants.

“In many parts of the country, districts are safely blue or red, but in St Cloud, I don't think either district can be characterized that way,” said King Banaian, an economics professor at St.

State regulators have ordered Xcel Energy to refund customers for costs related to a catastrophic failure at its Becker coal plant 13 years ago.

This fall marks the first time in more than two decades that Dave Kleis' name hasn't appeared on the ballot. St.

Four residents of a central Minnesota mobile home park are suing its current and former owners alleging fraudulent practices and health violations, including a faulty sewer system that caused sewage to back up into their homes.

Some of the priciest local proposals before Minnesotans are in Stearns County, Cottage Grove and Richfield. MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer was joined by Collegeville-based MPR Correspondent Kirsti Marohn, Cottage Grove Journal Publisher John McLoone and Mike Hanks, editor of the Bloomington-Richfield Sun Current on Wednesday to break down those ballot questions.

Xcel Energy wants to build the roughly 170-mile power line from Garvin in Lyon County to Becker in central Minnesota. It would connect solar and wind energy from southwest Minnesota to the electrical grid.

Chad Aanerud, 35, was charged Monday in Crow Wing County District Court with 12 criminal counts, including second-degree murder, first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping, arson and assault with a dangerous weapon.