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Governor Tim Walz has declared Sunday Minnesota Fallen Firefighters Memorial Day.

Minnesota’s state veterans cemeteries will remain open during the Stay at Home order, but with a few changes in response to COVID-19.

Driver exam stations and license centers across the state will be closed during the two week Stay at Home order.

An annual festival in Walker has been canceled for this season.

A judge has sentenced a northeastern Minnesota man to 35 years in prison for the ambush slaying of his ex-girlfriend outside the Aurora American Legion.

About 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will soon get a chance to vote on competing compensation plans.

The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum has replaced a beloved statue that was stolen earlier this year. The arboretum says its new version of "South Wind II" by the late, internationally recognized Minnesota sculptor Paul Granlund was installed in the shrub rose garden Nov. 19 It's the fir…

A pedestrian has died after being struck by a car in Rochester. It happened on Civic Center Drive around 9:30 p.m. Friday. The victim has been identified as 60-year-old Paul Michael Ohnstad.

Affluent communities on the fringes of the Twin Cities metro area have lost out to Greater Minnesota in this year's competition for grants to subsidize broadband communications in poorly served remote locations.

A Little Falls man was killed in a broadside crash in Wadena County on Thursday afternoon. A truck driven by 25-year-old Don Poplin of Hewitt was traveling north on Highway 71 approaching the intersection at Bottemiller Drive.