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Minneapolis rain gardens were built to reduce water pollution. Research shows they’re making it worse.

Environment

Minneapolis rain gardens were built to reduce water pollution. Research shows they’re making it worse.

The city may retrofit its rain gardens to prevent phosphorus from contaminating lakes.

Lynx

Lynx waive their 2024 first-round draft pick

Twin Cities Suburbs

A colony of cormorants is dumping 14,500 pounds of feces in this south metro lake

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Health Care

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Former staff allege addiction treatment provider Care Crossings is breaking law, putting clients at risk

Twin Cities

Former staff allege addiction treatment provider Care Crossings is breaking law, putting clients at risk

Minneapolis

One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs

Minneapolis

One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs

Twins

Reusse: Pirates’ McCutchen stands alone as an active position player who endured the Metrodome

Patrick Reusse

Twins

Reusse: Pirates’ McCutchen stands alone as an active position player who endured the Metrodome

Patrick Reusse

Minneapolis

Minneapolis landlord opens homeless camps on his parking lots in defiance of city

Minneapolis

Minneapolis landlord opens homeless camps on his parking lots in defiance of city

Greater Minnesota

St. Cloud

First new Minnesota medical school campus in 50 years aims to train rural doctors

St. Cloud

First new Minnesota medical school campus in 50 years aims to train rural doctors

U Medical School’s CentraCare site recruits students from rural areas and will prepare them for practices there, too, with the hope they’ll serve long term in greater Minnesota.

Greater Minnesota

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Greater Minnesota

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Greater Minnesota

Tolkkinen: No shrubs, no native grasses. Was I really driving through southern Minnesota?

Karen Tolkkinen

Greater Minnesota

Tolkkinen: No shrubs, no native grasses. Was I really driving through southern Minnesota?

Karen Tolkkinen

St. Cloud

First new Minnesota medical school campus in 50 years aims to train rural doctors

St. Cloud

First new Minnesota medical school campus in 50 years aims to train rural doctors

U Medical School’s CentraCare site recruits students from rural areas and will prepare them for practices there, too, with the hope they’ll serve long term in greater Minnesota.

News & Politics

Prosecutors argue ex-Sen. Justin Eichorn didn’t have ‘immunity’ to sex sting charges as former lawmaker

St. Cloud

St. Cloud business owner accused of swindling $240K from customers

Duluth

CHS to close Twin Ports largest grain elevator, all 504 concrete silos

Greater Minnesota

Ex-sheriff’s deputy in northwest Minnesota and wife charged with trafficking, animal cruelty in Tennessee

Opinion

Columnists

Rash: The debt effect of the Big Beautiful Bill, by the numbers

John Rash

Columnists

Rash: The debt effect of the Big Beautiful Bill, by the numbers

John Rash

Fiscally focused think tanks sound the alarm.

Readers Write

Readers Write: New state flag, the ‘real’ America, aquatic invasives, Northstar

Readers Write

Readers Write: New state flag, the ‘real’ America, aquatic invasives, Northstar

Columnists

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Commentaries

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Columnists

Rash: The debt effect of the Big Beautiful Bill, by the numbers

John Rash

Columnists

Rash: The debt effect of the Big Beautiful Bill, by the numbers

John Rash

Fiscally focused think tanks sound the alarm.

Columnists

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Commentaries

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Strib Voices

Aurora

Souhan: Aurora again experience a rare loss at a high cost, falling to Utah in USL W semifinals

Jim SouhanColumnist

Sports

Neal: Twins alums have Home Run Derby memories — and advice

La Velle E. Neal IIIColumnist

Twins

Reusse: Pirates’ McCutchen stands alone as an active position player who endured the Metrodome

Patrick ReusseColumnist

Food & Culture

Music

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Music

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Is it addiction to adoration, inability to lead a normal life or just what they do?

Travel

Minneapolis nonprofit takes travelers across rural Italy: ‘Walk with your hearts’

Travel

Minneapolis nonprofit takes travelers across rural Italy: ‘Walk with your hearts’

Culture

Did you just call arm wrestling a kids’ game? Now you’re making Minnesota’s pro arm wrestlers mad.

Culture

Did you just call arm wrestling a kids’ game? Now you’re making Minnesota’s pro arm wrestlers mad.

Music

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Music

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Is it addiction to adoration, inability to lead a normal life or just what they do?

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Daily Games

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A wild black bear was spotted in Graceville, a small rural town in western Minnesota

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Business

Number Crunch

Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs made 7% more, with top earner making $59.4M

Number Crunch

Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs made 7% more, with top earner making $59.4M

The 50 highest paid CEOs made a total of $495.5 million. Still, that figure is down 23.6% from 2020.

Business

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Automatic money decisions, like target-date funds, makes investing easy

Business

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Generosity in relationships can help make financial decisions

Number Crunch

Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs made 7% more, with top earner making $59.4M

Number Crunch

Minnesota's highest-paid CEOs made 7% more, with top earner making $59.4M

The 50 highest paid CEOs made a total of $495.5 million. Still, that figure is down 23.6% from 2020.

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A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man

Young Democrats have called for a rebrand. They're vying to replace the party's old guard

Former Wisconsin clerk who failed to count ballots broke laws, the state’s elections commission says

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Culture

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Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Minneapolis nonprofit takes travelers across rural Italy: ‘Walk with your hearts’

Did you just call arm wrestling a kids’ game? Now you’re making Minnesota’s pro arm wrestlers mad.

Travel

Minneapolis nonprofit takes travelers across rural Italy: ‘Walk with your hearts’

Delta defies summer travel slump as profits beat expectation, push up stock

Four reasons to take Delta’s new nonstop flight from MSP to Rome this summer

Health Care

UnitedHealth invokes executive’s murder in campaign to quiet critics

First new Minnesota medical school campus in 50 years aims to train rural doctors

Mental health care is limited in rural Minnesota. It’s also most vulnerable to Medicaid cuts.

Outdoor Activities

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The Latest

59 Palestinians in Gaza are killed by Israeli airstrikes or shot dead while seeking aid

Iran says it would resume nuclear talks with US if guaranteed no further attacks

Souhan: Aurora again experience a rare loss at a high cost, falling to Utah in USL W semifinals

Buxton hits for the cycle, driving Twins to victory over the Pirates

Minnesota United grabs a lead and keeps a tight grip, defeating San Jose

Twins' Correa sits one out amid relief over injury

Millville’s Jeremy Martin finishes second in hometown event to end his standout motocross career

Neal: Twins alums have Home Run Derby memories — and advice

Lynx waive their 2024 first-round draft pick

Lynx fall to Sky, endure second loss of road trip on their crowded itinerary

Reusse: Pirates’ McCutchen stands alone as an active position player who endured the Metrodome

Trump says he's considering 'taking away' Rosie O'Donnell's US citizenship

Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between Bondi and Bongino at the Justice Department

A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man

Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico to begin Aug. 1, rattling major US trading partners

Unhealthy smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the Upper Midwest when people want to be outside

Decades-long sentence for murder of chef at memorial gathering in St. Paul

Young Democrats have called for a rebrand. They're vying to replace the party's old guard

Iga Swiatek's 6-0, 6-0 win over Amanda Anisimova delivers her her first Wimbledon title, 6th major

Brooklyn Park businesses brace for change as Blue Line extension project advances

Minneapolis rain gardens were built to reduce water pollution. Research shows they’re making it worse.

Minneapolis rain gardens were built to reduce water pollution. Research shows they’re making it worse.

Lynx waive their 2024 first-round draft pick

A colony of cormorants is dumping 14,500 pounds of feces in this south metro lake

Unhealthy smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the Upper Midwest when people want to be outside

The 30 restaurants most vital to the Twin Cities area right now

UnitedHealth invokes executive’s murder in campaign to quiet critics

Former staff allege addiction treatment provider Care Crossings is breaking law, putting clients at risk

Former staff allege addiction treatment provider Care Crossings is breaking law, putting clients at risk

One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs

One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs

Reusse: Pirates’ McCutchen stands alone as an active position player who endured the Metrodome

Reusse: Pirates’ McCutchen stands alone as an active position player who endured the Metrodome

Minneapolis landlord opens homeless camps on his parking lots in defiance of city

Minneapolis landlord opens homeless camps on his parking lots in defiance of city

Greater Minnesota

First new Minnesota medical school campus in 50 years aims to train rural doctors

First new Minnesota medical school campus in 50 years aims to train rural doctors

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Woman admits she was driving, not her twin, when she hit Amish buggy and killed two kids

Tolkkinen: No shrubs, no native grasses. Was I really driving through southern Minnesota?

Tolkkinen: No shrubs, no native grasses. Was I really driving through southern Minnesota?

First new Minnesota medical school campus in 50 years aims to train rural doctors

First new Minnesota medical school campus in 50 years aims to train rural doctors

Prosecutors argue ex-Sen. Justin Eichorn didn’t have ‘immunity’ to sex sting charges as former lawmaker

St. Cloud business owner accused of swindling $240K from customers

CHS to close Twin Ports largest grain elevator, all 504 concrete silos

Ex-sheriff’s deputy in northwest Minnesota and wife charged with trafficking, animal cruelty in Tennessee

Opinion

Rash: The debt effect of the Big Beautiful Bill, by the numbers

Rash: The debt effect of the Big Beautiful Bill, by the numbers

Readers Write: New state flag, the ‘real’ America, aquatic invasives, Northstar

Readers Write: New state flag, the ‘real’ America, aquatic invasives, Northstar

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Rash: The debt effect of the Big Beautiful Bill, by the numbers

Rash: The debt effect of the Big Beautiful Bill, by the numbers

Brown: Rural health care providers go from the emergency room to the picket line

Opinion | Is it fair that immigrant children are often asked to bear so much weight?

Strib Voices

Souhan: Aurora again experience a rare loss at a high cost, falling to Utah in USL W semifinals

Neal: Twins alums have Home Run Derby memories — and advice

Reusse: Pirates’ McCutchen stands alone as an active position player who endured the Metrodome

Food & Culture

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Minneapolis nonprofit takes travelers across rural Italy: ‘Walk with your hearts’

Minneapolis nonprofit takes travelers across rural Italy: ‘Walk with your hearts’

Did you just call arm wrestling a kids’ game? Now you’re making Minnesota’s pro arm wrestlers mad.

Did you just call arm wrestling a kids’ game? Now you’re making Minnesota’s pro arm wrestlers mad.

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Why are Paul McCartney and so many older singers coming to Minnesota this year?

Minneapolis recommends two nonprofits to run shuttered Cowles Center

The 30 restaurants most vital to the Twin Cities area right now

John Grisham, Stacey Abrams and more top authors headed to St. Paul for Talking Volumes

Dancing toward autonomy: 5 takeaways from SAATH’s ‘2 Suitcases’

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One Minneapolis police lieutenant earned about $500,000 last year amid record overtime costs

Lynx waive their 2024 first-round draft pick