New Hope man pleads guilty to threatening SomalisApril 19, 2010 5:27 PMA New Hope man has pleaded guilty to making terroristic threats for posting on Craiglist that he would bring his rifle for target practice at a Somali cultural event in St. Cloud.
Walleye size limits remain in place on Upper Red LakeApril 19, 2010 4:49 PMRegulations that require anglers on Upper Red Lake to release smaller walleyes during the first month of the season will remain in place this year.
Western Minn. city settles case over gardenApril 17, 2010 10:24 AMBy Mark SteilThe City Council in the western Minnesota town of Watson has agreed to let a town resident keep a vegetable garden which had sparked turmoil in the community.
Minn. moms work to slow rate of childhood obesityApril 17, 2010 9:53 AMLynn Mader, a dietitian and self-described "angry mom," Mader is promoting the idea of eating more locally grown food through the Farm to School project in west central Minnesota, to help improve the diets of school children.
Fish dump threatens to ignite tensions over tribal fishingApril 16, 2010 5:34 PMBy Madeleine BaranSeveral hundred walleye carcasses were dumped in a field near Mille Lacs Lake in central Minnesota. A neighbor found the heap of rotting fish, including hundreds of filleted walleyes and several whole northern pike, on Tuesday afternoon.
Search continues for woman's killer in RochesterApril 15, 2010 7:52 PMThe third anniversary of the death of 27-year-old April Sorensen is Saturday and Rochester police are still looking for her killer.
Farm income in Minnesota dropped sharply in 2009April 15, 2010 4:47 PMBy Mark SteilMinnesota farmers took a financial bruising last year after posting some of the highest income levels ever in 2008. Farm income in the state fell to an eight-year low in 2009, down by almost two-thirds from the previous year. That stress is showing up in farmhouses across the state.
Feds change bovine TB regulations; Minn. will benefitApril 15, 2010 3:43 PMA change in federal regulations on bovine tuberculosis is expected to benefit Minnesota cattle producers.
Play4min 00secSmall gestures help improve race relations in BemidjiApril 15, 2010 3:00 AMBy Tom RobertsonA year ago, Bemidji business owners began to display greetings and words of thanks written in the Ojibwe language. It was a simple, symbolic gesture, but the idea caught on.
Fish-killing virus found again in Lake SuperiorApril 14, 2010 4:38 PMThe Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reports that more fish infected with the fish-killing VHS virus have been found in Lake Superior.