Judge: City OK inclosing homeless encampments
MINNEAPOLIS —A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of homeless people against [...]
Finstad aide’s travel expenses ”raise eyebrows”
WASHINGTON — A political scholar at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, Cynthia Brown, said [...]
Finstad on aide’s travel expenses: All routine
WASHINGTON — The press aide to Congressman Brad Finstad tried to dampen growing ethics [...]
Finstad aide’s travel expenses exceed norms
WASHNGTON — The chief of staff for southern Minnesota’s representative in Congress has been [...]
Temporary site OK’d for Winona homeless shelter
WINONA, Minn. — The Winona Planning Commission unanimously approved an overnight homeless shelter through [...]
Islamist decry sweeping Trump Somali threat
ST. PAUL, Minn. —The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations warned that [...]
Finstad: Local Somalis financing global terrorism
WASHINGTON — Congressman Brad Finstad jumped sideways into the fray about President Trump’s pending [...]
Minnesota Democrats rally to defend Somalis
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz faulted President Trump for using Somali refugees [...]
Trump to Minnesota Somalis: Go back to Africa
WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered Somali refugees living in Minnesota to go back to Africa. [...]
How they voted: On pedophile documents /2
WASHNGTON — The U.S. Senate agreed unanimously and swiftly to endorse a House bill [...]
Official now: Democrats retain Senate edge
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two new state senators, elected to fill vacancies, took their [...]
How they voted: On pedophile documents /1
WASHINGTOI — The U.S. House voted 427-1 to order the U.S. Justice Department to [...]
Rochester plans 2-1/2 miles more trails
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The City Council voted unanimously to buy 126 acres in southeast [...]
Schimel to U.S. attorney post in Milwaukee
WASHINGTON — President Trump named long-term supporter Brad Schimel as U.S. attorney for the [...]
Researchers: Autism-Tylenol link is quackery
LONDON — Another group of researchers has discredited a link between the complex child [...]
Hub-feeder flights resume at LSE, RST
WASHINGTON — The Trump Administration said airlines were free to resume full schedules as [...]
Minnesota’s hemp-infused industry at risk?
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Nobody except the perpetrators noticed that a “sleeper amendment” against [...]
Craig: Congress has misread public preferences
WASHINGTON — Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Angie Craig, currently a member of Congress, expressed disappointment [...]
Finstad: Shutdown end was people-friendly
WASHINGTON — Southern Minnesota’s representative in Congress, Brad Finstad, said he was serving the [...]
How they voted: On federal shutdown /3
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted 222-209 to acept a Senate bill to end [...]
Trump pardons ex-Wisconsin GOP bigwigs
WASHINGTON — President Trump pardoned 10 Wisconsin Republicans, who involved criminally to declare him [...]
Funding OK’d for regional buses
LACROSSE, Wis. — The LaCrosse County Board voted 18-12 to spend $157,000 to support [...]
How they voted: On federal shutdown /2
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted 60-40 to extend federal spending through January, in [...]
Aviation slowdown deepens at hub airports
WINONA, Minn. — Airlines canceled 30 flights at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and delayed [...]
Hy-Vee extends free meals for SNAP kids
WEST DES MONES, Iowa — Hy-Vee groceries will continue to provide $3 hot meals [...]
Trump salary cuts squeeze MSP traffic
MINNEAPOLIS — Airlines canceled 23 flights to Minneapolis and delayed 47 others on the [...]
Ellison senses Court qualms on Trump tariffs
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, expressed “cautious optimism” that [...]
Democrats retain majority edge in state Senate
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two special elections for state Senate vacancies left Democrats with [...]
SNAP food aid not yet in pipeline
Trump is slow-walking $5 billion in overdue November grocery money for needy people. Tikki [...]
Fareway to customers: Please support foodbanks
JOHNSTOWN, Iowa — The 137-store Fareway grocery chain announced a “Lead with Love” initiative [...]
Second U.S. judge slams Trump food denial
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to [...]
Judge to Trump on stopping food aid: You can’t
BOSTON — A federal judge gave President Trump Trump until Monday to restore SNAP [...]
Trump glows on China soybean deal: All talk?
WASHIGTON — President Trump returned from a whirlwind Asia trip and claimed he had [...]
LaCrosse bettering waste discharge standards
LACROSSE, Wis. – A 10-year $68 million project for a new LaCrosse wastewater treatment [...]
UW-Eau Claire on GOP’s ICE to-do: Yes but so?
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — To calls to discipline students in the campus Republican club [...]
Internal GOP rift over Kresha fraud charge?
ST.PAUL, Minn. — A fellow Republican legislator called for a House investigation into claims [...]
Army Corps on Bad River pipeline: Go ahead
ASHLAND, Wis. — In a setback for environmentalists and the Bad River band of [...]
Walz orders outside audit for Medicaid fraud
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz has suspended payments to 14 Medicaid providers [...]
Campus GOP event: Light-heartedness? Cruel racism?
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Campus Republicans at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire thought it [...]
Ellison: Trump “cruel” for shelving food aid
ST.PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, with 22 other state attorneys general, [...]
Veteran GOP legislator accused of loan fraud
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A six-term Republican legislator, Ron Kresha, has been accused of [...]
Walz assigns $4 million for foodbank crisis
EAGAN, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz pledged $4 million to Minnesota foodbanks to meet [...]
Foodbanks ill-equipped for federal shutdown
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. — Foodbanks operated by Second Harvest aren’t equipped to pick up [...]
Judge: Wabasha salary squabble had petty roots
WABASHA, Minn. — The Wabasha County Commission has been ordered by a judge to [...]
Booze crackdown: Sippi’s fined, license at risk
WINONA, Minn. — In a rare crackdown, the City Council fined Sippi’s Pub & [...]
Now cast in stone: City Council pay hikes
WINONA, Minn. —The Winona City Council voted 5-2 to raise the salaries of council [...]
No Kings update: Three dissidents left when urged
WINONA, Minn. —Police took three disturbance calls from the No Kings Day mass demonstration [...]
Van Orden touts Trump as peace-maker: Uhh?
WASHINGTON — Representative Derrick Van Orden, a Republican elected from western Wisconsin, proposed that [...]
Study: Minnesota lakes filling with microplastics
MINNEAPOLIS — Forty Minnesota lakes have worrisome levels of non-biodegradable microplastics, according to a [...]
Cops: No reason to expect Trump troops here
WINONA, Minn. — Police have no reason to expect Trump deportation agents at the [...]
LaCrosse County marijuana fine now $1
LACROSSE, Wis. — The La Crosse County Board voted 18-11 to lower the fine [...]
Farmer or not, Finstad sticks with Trump
NEW ULM, Minn — Critics of southern Minnesota’s representative in Congress, Brad Finstad, say [...]
Democrats support new No King rally
WINONA, Minn. — The Winona County Democratic Party issued a call for people to [...]
MSP to Trump: Take down political messaging
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — The Minneapolis airport’s governing board banned a video from President Trump’s [...]
Proposal: To ease cost of fertility care
MADISON, Wis. — A bill proposed in the Wisconsin Legislature would require health insurers [...]
Ferry displaces Lansing bridge 12 cars at a time
LANSING Iowa — Who will hold historic honors as the last human being to [...]
Desperate soybean farmers: “Buy U.S.”
Farm visits. Wisconsin soybean farmers, like their counterparts in other states, have been wining [...]
Finstad’s wedge politics: Why be divisive?
ST,PAUL, Minn. — The four Republicans in the Minnesota Congressional delegation, including Brad Finstad, [...]
Rosen as Minnesota’s new U.S attorney: ”Unexpected”
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A political scientist at Hamline University expressed surprise at President [...]
Gun law update: Walz seems to yield to GOP
ST. PAUL. Minn. — Governor Tim Walz said Republicans have dug so deeply into [...]