Minnesota Public Radio's parent company laid off 30 staff members Friday after Congress clawed back funding that it had previously approved for public broadcasting. Cuts in state funding from the Minnesota Legislature exacerbated the budget gap.| MPR News
Many parents are worried about how their children will cope with the mass shooting. Sarah Jerstad, psychologist and medical director of outpatient mental health services at Children's Minnesota, shared how to help children process and manage their feelings of distress related to school shootings.| MPR News
A large majority of survey respondents said they believe science can address challenges like pollution, habitat loss, climate impacts and overdevelopment.| MPR News
Minnesota uses miles of snow fences to catch blowing snow before it drifts onto roadways in a typical winter. At a one-of-a-kind test site near Moorhead, researchers are finding a year-round use for the snow fence.| MPR News
University of Minnesota officials are facing accusations they mishandled claims of plagiarism against a prominent professor who delivered millions of dollars in grant money to the university.| MPR News
A federal judge Friday heard a motion to dismiss a suit brought last year by a group of plaintiffs arguing that Minnesota laws protecting access to abortion are unconstitutional.| MPR News
The program, which has now been in effect for a year, says it has found success in getting criminal suspects connected with mental health services.| MPR News
President Trump’s hostage affairs envoy, Adam Boehler, says a new Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal could happen “within weeks,” as he defends his direct talks with Hamas.| MPR News
Trump can pardon Chauvin’s 20-year federal convictions for violating Floyd’s civil rights, but pardoning or commuting Chauvin’s 22 1/2 year state sentence is out of Trump’s jurisdiction.| MPR News
The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate nearly 6,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, according to a ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board.| MPR News
Gov. Tim Walz had been weighing a Senate run since fellow Democrat Sen. Tina Smith announced earlier this month she wouldn’t run in 2026. Walz expects to decide by early summer if he’ll run for another term as governor.| MPR News
The GOP framework that passed Tuesday allows the party to move ahead on a sweeping multitrillion plan to address defense, energy, immigration and tax policy.| MPR News
Twenty-one members of the United States DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE’s ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.| MPR News
The letters sent earlier this month warn any scholarships, programming and even graduation ceremonies based on race could be considered “discriminatory” due to a 2023 Supreme Court case.| MPR News
The company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline is suing Greenpeace for at least $300 million for damages the oil pipeline company says it suffered from protests in 2016 and 2017.| MPR News
In Minnesota, deadly drug overdoses doubled between 2018 and 2023. In Minneapolis, those deaths are disproportionately represented. In 2022, Minneapolis had nearly a quarter of the opioid deaths in the state, while the city only makes up eight percent of the population.| MPR News
Tuesday marks one year since Burnsville lost three first responders in the line of duty. Burnsville Police Deputy Chief Matt Smith and Burnsville Fire Chief BJ Jungmann joined MPR News host Nina Moini to reflect on the year since the tragedy.| MPR News
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war. But many will find there is nothing left and no way to rebuild.| MPR News
Donald Trump won the election largely on the promise of cracking down on border crossings. When he takes office next week, he will be inheriting a quiet border, with crossings plummeting for the past few months.| MPR News
From his “one-man shop out in the woods” in Otter Tail County, throwback musician Maurice Skogen builds old-school vacuum tube amplifiers that generate a “spiritual sound.“| MPR News
Master fiddle builder Bud Larsen is passing on his knowledge of the Hardanger fiddle to apprentices in the Fargo-Moorhead area. His work is creating a new generation of fiddle makers and players.| MPR News
St. Paul’s all-female city council has been on the job for a year now. What have they learned? MPR News host Angela Davis talks with this historic, young and diverse group about what it’s like to be a woman in politics today.| MPR News
From a modest workshop, Dan Larson turned his love of music, history and woodworking into a life building violins, lutes and and other stringed instruments. He’s known internationally for creating sounds that reach back to the 16th century.| MPR News
President-elect Donald Trump is preparing more than 100 executive orders starting Day One of the new White House, in what amounts to a shock-and-awe campaign on border security, deportations and a rush of other policy priorities.| MPR News
More than 40 athletes competing in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games, representing various countries, have connections to Minnesota. Whether they live here, train here or were born here, here’s your chance to learn about the Minnesota ties at the Paris Games.| MPR News
The Syrian government collapsed early Sunday, falling to a lightning rebel offensive that seized control of the capital of Damascus and sent crowds into the streets to celebrate.| MPR News
The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral rang on Saturday evening in Paris for the first time since a fire heavily damaged the Paris landmark in 2019.| MPR News
The last time Syrian President Bashar Assad was in serious trouble was 10 years ago. That was at the height of the country’s civil war, when his forces lost control over parts of the largest city, Aleppo, and his opponents were closing in on the capital, Damascus.| MPR News
Chaos gripped the Twin Cities Thursday night into Friday as peaceful protests gave way to spasms of looting and fire. Gov. Tim Walz called up the National Guard amid the unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody.| MPR News
Hundreds of protesters lined a south Minneapolis intersection Tuesday night calling for justice in the Memorial Day death of George Floyd after a video surfaced showing a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck as Floyd told the officer repeatedly he couldn’t breathe.| MPR News
A year has passed since George Floyd’s murder. Host Angela Davis led a conversation with community leaders, memory keepers and activists working to maintain his legacy in our communities and beyond.| MPR News
The new agreement will help Trump officials on agency landing teams access classified information needed to prepare to take over on Jan. 20.| MPR News
A DFL state lawmaker will have legal fees covered by the Minnesota House after alleging her rights were violated by an outside employer. Republicans say the move sets a bad precedent.| MPR News
On a unanimous vote, the city council appointed Hudda Ibrahim to fill a vacancy on the seven-member board. She replaces Jake Anderson, who was elected St. Cloud mayor last month.| MPR News
Most Black women voters supported Kamala Harris in her presidential run against Donald Trump. Now some say they are pulling back, to rest and mourn.| MPR News
After a recount upheld a DFL candidate’s narrow win, the outcome moves next to the courts for a race that would determine whether the Minnesota House is in GOP hands or tied next year.| MPR News
The Office of Cannabis Management is facing pushback this week after it rejected more than 1,100 applicants it deemed ineligible for the first round of business licenses.| MPR News
A Ramsey County judge blocked a regulatory agency from holding a license pre-approval lottery after applicants who were denied entry sued the Office of Cannabis Management over the process.| MPR News
Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal judge to dismiss the case accusing President-elect Donald Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.| MPR News
Conservative groups have filed lawsuits against workplace diversity initiatives that prioritize historically marginalized groups.| MPR News
From "no tax on tips" to Social Security, Donald Trump has made a range of promises about the taxes Americans will pay. We take a look at three changes we could see in the months ahead.| MPR News
Officials in two counties revisited results in close House races on Monday after experiencing vote reporting issues after Election Day.| MPR News
The Minnesota Senate will stay in DFL control next year but there was no definitive word on the House. There were no surprises in Minnesota’s U.S. House and Senate elections. And voters were poised to continue using lottery money to fund natural resources projects.| MPR News
MPR News has compiled answers to some frequently asked questions about how votes are counted, when we will know the results and how election officials ensure the process is fair and accurate.| MPR News
LaTrisha Vetaw survived a rare form of cancer that doctors told her was likely caused by her exposure to toxins in the air and land where she grew up in Chicago. That was on her mind when the Minneapolis City Council voted recently in favor of closing a solid waste incinerator.| MPR News
According to state elections data, support for Vice President Kamala Harris in parts of Minneapolis with concentrations of East African immigrants and Somali voters was weaker than in the city as a whole.| MPR News
The OCM turned to a lottery because more than 1,800 applicants had sought 282 licenses. This week, regulators disqualified two-thirds of the applicants for a variety of reasons.| MPR News
A jury in Fergus Falls took only about an hour to return verdicts of guilty on all charges to two men accused of human smuggling. The trial arose from the hypothermia deaths of a family from India who in January 2022 were directed to walk across the border from Canada into Minnesota during a bitterly cold snowstorm.| MPR News
After hearing three and a half days of testimony, the jury in a federal human smuggling case will begin deliberating judgement Friday. Two Florida men face charges alleging they brought migrants from India into the U.S. illegally.| MPR News
The Minneapolis City Council’s Climate & Infrastructure Committee voted unanimously Thursday to advance the conversation about plans for George Floyd Square and the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue.| MPR News
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said St. Paul police officers Eric Jaworski and Matthew Foy shot and killed Mychel Allan Stowers on Saturday afternoon.| MPR News
A recent study commissioned by the St. Paul Downtown Alliance identifies 10 buildings in the downtown area that could be converted from office space to residential units.| MPR News
The jury in the federal trial for two men accused of human smuggling heard dramatic testimony Wednesday from a man who crossed the U.S. Canadian border in a snowstorm on Jan. 19, 2022. He was in a group which included the Patel family of four who froze to death that night.| MPR News
The event held a moment of silence for two trans women, Liara Kaylee Tsai and Savannah Ryan Williams, killed in the last year in Minnesota.| MPR News
A group within the Minneapolis teachers union is set to host an event with Taher Herzallah. Critics are saying remarks he made last year were antisemitic.| MPR News
Two former St. Paul Public Schools employees are filing a lawsuit against the district, claiming they were fired after raising concerns about how district leaders were handling finances.| MPR News
After three weeks evading capture and garnering social media fame along the North Shore, an Icelandic sheep nicknamed “Brad the Sheep” is safely back home on a farm in Carlton.| MPR News
The state’s Department of Human Services and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe have been working on improving relations.| MPR News
The annual Rock Your Mocs social media event invites Indigenous people worldwide to show off their moccasins during Native American Heritage month. Minnesota, we want your pics for our online album.| MPR News
Police are increasingly using judge-approved "reverse location" search warrants to find cellphones near crime scenes. Civil liberties experts worry it's a digital dragnet ripe for abuse. Authorities say it's an important new crime fighting tool.| MPR News
While the welcome will be warm, Australia’s national and state leaders want the royals removed from their constitution.| MPR News
From school choice to college affordability, Trump and Harris don't have a lot in common. Ahead of the candidates’ only scheduled debate, we’ve put together a handy primer of their education views.| MPR News
Former President Donald Trump is heading to Mosinee, Wisc. for a rally that’s intended to focus heavily on the economy, marking his first trip to the mostly rural central part of the key battleground state.| MPR News
Minnesota for the win. The 35-year-old, four-time Paralympian added to her collection of gold, silver and bronze medals from across the world.| MPR News
China's Foreign Ministry says the only exception will be for families who are adopting the children or stepchildren of blood relatives in China.| MPR News
Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.| MPR News
At United South Central Public Schools in Wells phones will be locked in a pouch for the entire day. Meanwhile at Grand Rapids-Big Fork Public Schools, phones will be put in a designated area during each class period.| MPR News
More than 7,100 Minnesota National Guard members were pressed into duty for a mission unlike any other in Minneapolis after George Floyd was killed. The Guard’s commander offered an inside look at the mission to state lawmakers Thursday.| MPR News
Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill into law Friday that will provide breakfasts and lunches at no charge to students at participating schools. It makes Minnesota the fourth state in the country to do so.| MPR News
Friday marks the return of over 2 square miles of state-owned land in southwest Minnesota to the Upper Sioux Community. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources closed the Upper Sioux Agency State Park mid-February.| MPR News
