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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The informal style and sloppiness of texting and social media is finding its way into students' writing, and teachers are learning it's a problem they need to...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota churches are deciding whether or not to perform gay marriage ceremonies with Minnesota's law about to change. Gay marriage becomes legal August 1. Minnesota Public Radio...
Lorna Benson MPR News 91.3 ST. PAUL — Black Minnesotans who have reached the age of 65 can expect to be healthy for far less of their remaining years than...
By Dan Gunderson MPR News 91.3 FM MOORHEAD — Be observant. Don’t hit anything. Pilots in the cockpit live by those rules. Take the pilot out of the plane, though,...
Julie Siple MPR News 91.3 FM ST. PAUL — Supporters of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — food stamps — worry that a heated debate underway in Washington could end...
Lorna Benson MPR News 91.3 FM St. Louis Park — Leslie Johnson struggles with migraines and memory issues. Her joints ache and she’s suffered problems with her heart, bowels and...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota is putting $3.3 million worth of property up for sale next week, including a parcel on Lake Superior where outdoors advocates had hoped to...
By Dan Gunderson MPR News 91.3 FM MARION LAKE — Property owners throughout Minnesota are increasingly turning to a new funding tool called lake improvement districts to protect water quality...
SOUTH TURTLE LAKE, Minn. - How do you sneak up on a loon? That's the question this night as wildlife scientists slide a boat into South Turtle Lake, a few miles east of Fergus Falls. The biologists want to know why so many of the iconic birds die of botulism poisoning on the Great Lakes every fall. They want to learn more about environmental toxins loons face on their long annual migration. But first they have to catch them.
Tim Post MPR News 91.3 FM PLUMMER — The Oklee and Plummer schools in northwestern Minnesota shared sports teams and resources for nearly a decade. So when officials sought to...