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Tara Cliff, health services supervisor at Eastern Carver County schools, said that turnover has been a challenge for her district so she's spending the start of the school year getting new nurses ready.

A new Minnesota Supreme Court council on Child Protection and Maltreatment Prevention has begun its work. State lawmakers voted to form the group after a Minnesota Star Tribune investigation found hundreds of children were abused after the state’s child protection system returned them to their parents.

Thousands are left wondering what’s next after China announced last week it has ended its international adoption program. Grace Shu Gerloff is one of more than 80,000 kids who were adopted from China and brought to the U.S. in the past three decades. She grew up in Minnesota and now studies transnational adoption.

The impending closures of three child care centers in Duluth have parents and stakeholders scrambling. It’s more examples of the child care crisis across the state that has left many with difficult decisions.

A new state law requiring sober houses to allow residents to have access to prescribed medications has some advocates worried. Those who follow an abstinence-based addiction treatment model say the presence of these drugs could lead to chaos.

Minneapolis Police are ramping up their presence in downtown this weekend after two deadly incidents.

It’s finally pumpkin season but this year’s heavy rainfall has made the harvest “one of the hardest,” according to University of Minnesota pumpkin expert Jenny Thull.

A senior U.S. intelligence official has found that Russia is behind viral disinformation about Gov. Tim Walz.

A new report estimates there are more than 40 million eligible voters with disabilities; yet turnout rates among this voting bloc continue to be lower than in the wider population. Changes in the law have helped to reduce these gaps, but experts say challenges still remain.

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