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The planned strike, which was voted on with "overwhelming" support from the 15,000 nurses in the Minnesota Nurses Association, will begin on Dec. 11 and could last until Dec. 31.

The Minnesota Nurses Association on Thursday announced the intent for 15,000 nurses to strike beginning Dec. 11 as union leaders and hospitals work to make a contract deal.

Four lions that were born at breeding facilities in Ukraine have been sent to a Minnesota animal sanctuary. The cubs stayed at a zoo in Poland before being sent to the U.S.

The four lion cubs survived sporadic bombings and drone attacks to find refuge in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday on an attempt by environmental groups to cancel a key permit for the long-stalled PolyMet copper-nickel mine.

A Minnesota woman allegedly stole her son's blood and abused her other two children, authorities said. She now faces charges of child torture, stalking.

A Minnesota man who drove into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring three others in June 2021, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Thanksgiving will be filled with food and winning football teams.

Beekeepers head to Texas, raising queen bees and supplying hives for commercial and hobby beekeepers

Thanksgiving is observed on the fourth Thursday of November each year. Here are 12 fun facts about the holiday and its popular food staples, including turkey, cranberries and pies.

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves anticipates that the company's iron ore mine in northern Minnesota will close around 2025 without mineral rights.

"As long as my hands are steady, I'll just keep doing it," Tom Gorzycki said.

A Minnesota suspect filed a lawsuit against the Saint Paul Police Department after an officer shot him while he was "naked, unarmed, and attempting to surrender."

Even with higher-than-usual gas prices, road tripping is still an affordable ways to travel. These 10 routes will give you bang for your buck.

Gambling Insider Patrick Everson recaps another fun betting weekend, including how Josh Allen's elbow caused line movement in the Vikings-Bills game.

Justin Jefferson's one-handed catch against the Bills on Sunday was spectacular. But was it better than OBJ's?

Minnesota pulled out yet another one-score victory. Here's what the game of the year means for both the Vikings and the Bills.

The rarest known Buddy Holly poster from "The Day the Music Died" has sold for a record-breaking $447,000 at Heritage Auctions.

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins told reporters that the 2020 trade with the Buffalo Bills for receiver Stefon Diggs worked out for both sides.

A Bible helped solved the 2015 murder of a Minnesota farmer who was killed in his home, authorities said

Food company's sanitation services provider is accused of employing kids for risky jobs, including a 13-year-old burned by chemicals.

Insider Patrick Everson breaks down how bettors and sharps are wagering on NFL Week 10, including Cowboys-Packers, and the college football slate.

“Nightmare fuel,” one person commented after seeing photos of the massive creature.

The couple named the diamond “HIMO,” the initials of their children.

Minnesota voters elected Leigh Finke to the state's House of Representatives, making her the first transgender lawmaker to be elected in the state.

Republicans in Minnesota were decimated by a Democratic blue wave, conceding full control of the state government to Democrats for the first time in eight years.

Democrats did better than expected and appeared to have staved off a "red wave."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is facing Scott Jensen in his bid for re-election. Jensen first gained attention for his skepticism regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.

Details surrounding Adam Zimmer's death were revealed in a court filing on Monday. The football coach died at 38 last week at his home in Minnesota.

With a large number of incumbents leaving office for various reasons, the election will add many new faces to different state offices. This year's turnover rate is already above 26%.

Singer Mimi Parker has died.

Changes are coming to state capitols across the country.

A Minnesota man has been charged with second-degree intentional murder after allegedly executing his daughter's boyfriend because he believed he was abusing her.

A Minnesota man has been charged with second-degree intentional murder after allegedly executing his daughter's boyfriend because he believed he was abusing her.

Control of state government hangs in the balance in Minnesota, one of the few Midwest states where Democrats have had the upper hand in recent years.

A federal prison transport guard faces up to 10 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting a woman he was transporting from Washington to Minnesota.

A North Dakota judge says he'll keep the state’s ban on abortion from taking effect because there's a "substantial probability” that a constitutional challenge to the law will succeed in court.

DeAndre Hopkins is looking for an explanation after game officials failed to call a helmet-to-helmet hit during Sunday's game between the Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings.

Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., roasted a CBS news host for hypocrisy during a contentious interview after she tried to call out Republican rhetoric for inspiring violence.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar criticized what she said were “dangerous propagandists” after she was heckled as a “warmonger” during an event in Minnesota.

Minnesota GOP Rep. Tom Emmer, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, says ads tying Democratic candidates to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are "absolutely about the issues," and that "there should be no violence in our society."

Rep. Tom Emmer, Rep. Sean Patrick Malone, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly, and more, will appear on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" this Sunday.

Paul Wellstone, a fiery liberal senator, died 20 years ago Tuesday in a plane crash in Minnesota's Iron Range, a bedrock of Democratic support. Now, the big mining region has broken toward Trump, a miniature version of what's happened in other rural, once-liberal regions.

Some Muslim American communities across the country are joining forces with conservative groups to push back on what they see as the politicization of America's schools.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison claimed that he didn't know anyone who supports the "Defund the Police" movement despite previous support for replacing police.

Minnesota grower claims his second victory at weigh-off in Half-Moon Bay, California.

Wisconsin and Minnesota families, who are dealing with the recent loss of loved ones, have been targeted by scammers and fake online accounts asking for donations.

Republican challenger Scott Jensen launched sharp attacks against Gov. Tim Walz over his handling of the violent unrest that followed the police killing of George Floyd.

A Minnesota woman drove her SUV over her 2-year-old daughter after the child fell out of the vehicle. The child was airlifted to a local hospital.

A convicted felon in Minnesota is accused of attempting to murder his ex-girlfriend while out on bond from a previous domestic assault case,

A Minnesota woman says she was assaulted after wearing an American flag shirt. Police said the woman's face was so swollen they could barely see her eyes.

A Minnesota woman says she was assaulted after wearing an American flag shirt. Police said the woman's face was so swollen they could barely see her eyes.

Minneapolis-area man Qadar Mohamed Aden was ordered by police out of a stolen vehicle and allegedly possessed more than 100 fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills on his person.

Denis Molla gave an emotional interview on local television after the devastating blaze, which he has now admitted he started himself.

A Minnesota teacher set the new U.S. record on Monday at the 49th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, presenting a massive gourd that weighed 2,560 pounds.

The winning pumpkin, grown by a Minnesota teacher, set a new North American record for heaviest pumpkin.

Travis Gienger broke a record set last week in New York where a grower raised a massive pumpkin weighing 2,554 pounds.

A horticulture teacher from Minnesota has set a new U.S. record for the heaviest pumpkin after raising a giant gourd weighing 2,560 pounds.

UnitedHealth Group says it has completed its acquisition of Change Healthcare, closing the roughly $8 billion deal a couple weeks after a judge rejected a challenge from regulators.

Keith Ellison gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for Minnesota attorney general, saying it was his best chance to push back against the policies of Donald Trump.

In-person voting for the midterm elections has started in Minnesota, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming, in a landscape that has changed since the pandemic drove a shift to mail balloting in the 2020 presidential contest.

Wild rice, or manoomin in Ojibwe, is sacred to Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region because it’s part of their creation story and because for centuries, even a handful made a difference between life and starvation during harsh winters.

Bird flu has returned to the Midwest earlier than authorities expected after a lull of several months.

Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing may be held under less restrictive conditions.

The Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association is resuming its Dream Gap barnstorming tour for a fourth consecutive year.

Seguin police are warning parents about the potential dangers of sharing back-to-school photos.

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins has tested positive for COVID-19 and won't play in the team’s first preseason game.

Minnesota Republican Brad Finstad has been sworn as the newest member of the U.S. House.

Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Republican challenger Scott Jensen scored easy victories Tuesday in their primaries to set the stage for their fall matchup in Minnesota’s top race this fall.

Cavan Biggio hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and Whit Merrifield scored on an overturned call to lead the Blue Jays to a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins and split the four-game series.

Police in Minnesota confirm three gunshots were fired at the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis, but say no one appears to have been hurt.

A 52-year-old Minnesota man was charged Monday with killing a teenager and stabbing four other people in a dispute that allegedly began with a lost cellphone during a weekend tubing excursion on a western Wisconsin river.

The owner and operator of North Dakota’s lone abortion clinic says a judge’s ruling that will delay the closing of the state's lone abortion clinic should provide more than enough time for her to move it a few miles away to Minnesota.

North Dakota’s only abortion clinic is preparing for what could be its final day of performing procedures.

For the first time in the history of the famed U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron Blue Angels, a woman has been named as a pilot for the team.

A judge has scheduled sentencing this week for a former Minneapolis police officer convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights.

UnitedHealth Group hiked its 2022 forecast Friday after riding both growing health insurance enrollment and its newer care-providing businesses to a better-than-expected second quarter.

The implications of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade are reverberating nationwide as states reemerge as the new battlefields for abortion rights.

Now that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to federal prison, attention turns to the fates of three fellow ex-cops.

An 18-year-old was killed Monday after a fireworks incident in Minnesota.

The bodies of three young children and a woman believed to be their mother have been recovered from a Minnesota lake.

The Minnesota Twins dodged a sweep by cooling off the Cleveland Guardians in a 1-0 win.

A judge has rescheduled the state trial for two former Minneapolis police officers in George Floyd’s killing to Oct. 24 to resolve dueling requests for a new trial date.

Minnesota prosecutors and a defense attorney for one of two former Minneapolis police officers who still face a state trial in George Floyd’s killing have made dueling requests for a new trial date.

The AL Central-leading Twins start a home series against the AL East-leading Yankees with their rotation in a dire situation.

The judge overseeing the remaining case against two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing has ordered that the trial be delayed until January to improve prospects for a fair trial.

To the Super Bowl winner goes the spoils of opening the entire schedule at home.

The Cleveland Guardians are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that has sidelined manager Terry Francona and several of the team’s coaches, prompting the first coronavirus-related postponement in Major League Baseball this season.

Becky Hammon's first two games as a head coach in the WNBA went well for the former NBA assistant with the Las Vegas Aces winning both contests.

Vladimir Tarasenko had three goals in the third period to break open a tied game and series, and the St. Louis Blues pushed the Minnesota Wild to the edge of elimination with a 5-2 victory in Game 5.

Jordan Kyrou and David Perron each scored twice, Jordan Binnington made 28 saves in his first start this postseason and the St. Louis Blues beat the Minnesota Wild 5-2 to even the best-of-seven Western Conference series at 2-2.

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Milwaukee’s Willy Adames is powering a Brewers surge with seven homers in his past 10 games, including two during a 10-5 trouncing of Cincinnati on Thursday.

A Minnesota judge has ruled that the trial of three fired Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting George Floyd’s killing will not be livestreamed.

Scoring has rarely looked so difficult for Kevin Durant.

Game 1s brought greatness out of some.

For many Christians, this weekend marks the first time in three years they will gather in person to celebrate Easter Sunday, a welcome chance to share one of the faith’s holiest days side-by-side with fellow parishioners.

Prosecutors have revealed that they offered plea deals to three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd, but say the defendants rejected them.

An external review of Minnesota’s response to days of civil unrest following the May 2020 killing of George Floyd found several problems, including a lack of clear leadership early on as businesses were being destroyed and set ablaze.

Deandre Ayton scored a career-high 35 points and had 14 rebounds, Devin Booker had 22 of his 28 points in the second half and the Phoenix Suns surged past trash-talking Minnesota 125-116 on Wednesday night.