Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are in Minneapolis this week debating many issues, most notably whether or not to allow sexually active homosexuals in committed relationships to serve as clergy.
The city of St. Paul has temporarily closed the circus academy where about a dozen spectators were injured when a set of bleachers collapsed last night. The accident happened at the end of the final performance of the summer show at Circus Juventas.
Trapping and pollution almost drove the river otter out of Minnesota, but now there's been a report of an otter living on a once badly polluted stretch of the Mississippi River.
For nearly a week, golf fans all over the world became familiar with Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., as it hosted the PGA Championship. Whether that kind of exposure will bring a long-term impact to the area is not clear.
A portion of Lowry Avenue will re-open today, as construction in the north Minneapolis neighborhood was completed two months ahead of schedule, Hennepin county officials said.
An engineering firm blamed for not
spotting the fatal flaw in the doomed Interstate 35W bridge in
Minneapolis argues the state was at fault and shouldn't be able to
recover damages from the company.