politics

If gun control becomes the gateway issue that entices distrustful millennials into the voting booth, America is in for a makeover. Never before has this country produced a generation with political views and demographic traits so different from those of its elders. On nearly every...

DULUTH — A new statewide opinion poll appears to show growing opposition to copper mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. In the poll, paid for by opponents to copper mining, 70 percent of 800 Minnesota voters said they opposed allowing a copper mine near the...

Vladimir Putin used his state-of-the-nation speech to deliver a stern warning to the U.S. that Russia has a series of new high-technology nuclear weapons that he said can overcome any defenses. "Efforts to contain Russia have failed, face it," Putin said in a nearly two-hour address...

BEMIDJI—The Beltrami County Democratic-Farmer-Labor party will host its 2018 Convention at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 4, at the Bemidji Middle School, 1910 Middle School Ave. Registration begins at noon. At the convention, delegates elected at precinct caucuses will vote on a variety...