Greater Minnesota

Nurses union rejects mediated offer from Range Regional Health Services, but no date for strike set.
This could be critical week for Minnesota farmers
This could be a critical week for Minnesota farmers, who are running late with spring planting due to soggy fields, but have a chance to catch up thanks to good weather forecast for the next few days.
Sediment from farm runoff poses a threat to Lake Pepin
The upper third of the scenic lake in the Mississippi could be filled in over the next 100 years. An MPCA draft report cites farm runoff as a major cause, but state officials have little leverage to compel changes that could save the lake.
Ojibwe bands still upset about treaty rights battle with state
Minnesota is approaching another walleye fishing opener this weekend, but there is still no resolution to a treaty rights dispute between the state and two Ojibwe bands in northern Minnesota.
Twin Cities Presbyterians could clear the way for gay clergy
If Twin Cities church leaders vote to remove a requirement that ministers and lay leaders be faithfully married heterosexuals or celibate singles, it would be the final vote needed to ratify the change nationally.