WCCO owner CBS ousts network news chief
NEW YORK – The president of CBS News, Wendy McMahon, was forced out amid [...]
How they voted: Trump budget /4
WASHNGTON – In a 1 a.m. session, too late even for most devout C-SPAN [...]
GOP Jewish group: Walz trivializes Holocaust
WASHINGTON – The Republican Jewish Coalition has taken umbrage at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz [...]
Judge blocks Trump anti-school moves
BOSTON -- A federal judge stopped President Trump from dismantling the U.S. Education Department [...]
Lawsuit: Keep transgender girls off teams
MINNEAPOLIS – A Texas-based conservative advocacy group, Female Athletes Unted, wants a federal judge [...]
Comment: On transgender girls in sports
Some teen-age girls are amazons physically – big, brawny and not to be messed [...]
Walz sees way out for moribund Legislature
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz expressed confidence that the Legislature will resolve [...]
Walz berated as enemy of Trump deportations
WASHINGTON – Lockstep Trump loyalist Kristi Noem, his secretary for homeland security, blamed Minnesota [...]
Walz on Trump deportation practices: They’re Gestapo
Fired up. The governor minced no words in addressing 239 University of Minnesota law [...]
Trimmed-down state budget emerging in Legislature
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Nobody is pleased with the state’s 2026-2027 budget that’s emerged [...]
Walz: State can’t offset Trump cuts to safety net
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Major budget cuts proposed by President Trump and congressional Republicans could [...]
No impediments to U.S. attorney choice
WASHINGTON – The appointment of Dan Rosen as U.S. attorney for Minnesota appears headed [...]
Corporate-type named to Minnesota law job
WASHINGTON – President Trump nominated a Minneapolis litigator, Daniel Rosen, to be the next [...]
Chainsaw massacre: Trump undercuts river life
WINONA, Minn. – The Trump budget-slashing, ordered in the name of government efficiency, has [...]
Gender expert: Minnesota indecency law intact
ST. PAUL, Minn. – There won’t be wanton sex in the streets because of [...]
Judge to Trump deportation agency: Back off
MINNEAPOLIS -- An immigration judge terminated the deportation case against a University of Minnesota [...]
Judge cuts off secret UM student deportation
ST.PAUL, Minn. – A federal judge ruled that Trump deportation agents cannot transfer a [...]
Court relaxes ban on baring female breasts
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Supreme Court has opened the way for women [...]
Arrested Milwaukee judge is cast as Trump victim
MADISON, Wis. – The federal arrest of a Milwaukee judge for protecting a defendant [...]
Demuth: Transgender rights not worth the risk
ST.PAUL, Minn. – The Republican leader in the Minnesota House, Lisa Demuth, lit into [...]
Walz upbeat on Minnesota status but also worried
State of state address. Packed in the House chambers at the Capitol were legislators, [...]
Minnesota to Trump: Don’t mess with our culture
AT. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota’s attorney general. Keith Ellison, sued the Trump administration for [...]
Billions at stake in slash-crazed Trump state projects
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota state government relies on federal agencies for 35% [...]
Trump goes for death penalty in Mangione trial
NEW YORK – The Trump-appointed U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi, pushed through a federal [...]
WSU student reportedly eyed for Trump deportation
WINONA, Minn. – Winona State University discovered that the visa of one international graduate [...]
How they voted: Trump budget /3
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted 216-214 to add $5.7 trillion to the federal [...]
More Trump budget whacks for Upper Mississippi
ST.PAUL, Minn. -- The Army Corps, which maintains navigation on the Upper Mississippi, has [...]
Criminal allegation: $15 million in fake Insurance billings
MINNEAPOLIS – An Eden Prairie couple has been charged with defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and [...]
Quavering investors continue Fastenal sell-off
WINONA, Minn. – Publicly traded stock in Fastenal, Winona’s largest employer, continued its precipitous [...]
Fastenal stock down again – lowest in year
WINONA, Minn. – Publicly traded stock in Winona-based Fastenal dropped like a stone to [...]
Police: Winona “Hands Off” mega-rally peaceful
WINONA, Minn. – The Hands Off demonstration that packed Windom Park as part of [...]
How they voted: Trump budget /2
WASHNGTOIN – The U.S. Senate voted 51-48 for massive tax breaks for top-bracket taxpayers [...]
University denies any part in deportation arrest
MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota acknowledged the arrest of a Carlson School of [...]
Profs may be exempted from Walz telework order
WINONA, Minn. -- Professors at Minnesota state universities, including Winona State, apparently are not [...]
Sheriff sticks to guns in settling Iowa showdown
DECORAH, Iowa – Sheriff Dan Marx complied with an ultimatum from the Iowa attorney [...]
Vets meet with Finstad stand-in on issues
ROCHESTER, Minn. – After Congressman Brad Finstad said he was too busy to meet [...]
Winona police now with on-call trauma counsel
WINONA, Minn. -- Police Chief Tom Williams said a chaplaincy agreement with Rochester-based Salt [...]
Finstad still avoiding risk with MN-1 crowds
NEW ULM, Minn. -- Congressman Brad Finstad flew back to Washington from a weekend [...]
Minnesota on Trump “green” freeze: Not so fast
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison joined a muti-state suit in [...]
Iron Range jobs a casualty of tariff unknowns
HIBBING, Minn. – Two Iron Range mines will be closed and 630 employees furloughed [...]
Feedlot battle: Daley vows to fight on
LEWISTON, Minn. – The patron of the Daley dairy farm family, Ben Daley, says [...]
New setback for Daley dairy feedlot growth
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Supreme Court decided against hearing the latest attempt [...]
Trump target: Winona headquarters of Wildlife Refuge
WINONA, Minn. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in Winona has gone [...]
Why beer costing more: Thank Trump
BOULDER, Colo. – Beer drinkers will be among bearers of the brunt of skyrocketing [...]
Trump yanks school food aid, also related projects
ST. PAUL, Minn. – People who run school meal and childcare programs, as well [...]
What Trump school cuts mean locally
ROCHESTER, Minn. – A survey of southeast Minnesota schools by Rochester television station KTTC [...]
Pelowski lauded for House intern project
Winona legislator. Minnesota House members recognized retired Representative Gene Pelowski of Winona for leadership [...]
Ellison: A Trump pardon for killer-cop a dead-end
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Attorney General Keith Ellison expressed utter dismay at right-wing chatter [...]
WSU vulnerable in Trump education assaults
WINONA, Minn. -- President Trump’s confirmation to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education sent [...]
Unknowns lurk in dim state budget update
ST. PAUL, Minn.—The new state government budget forecast sees continued slippage in the state’s [...]
How WSU lost $1.1 million community-building grant
WINONA, Minn. – Winona State University has begun an internal assessment of whether its [...]
Iowa plan bars juveniles from drag shows
DES MOINES, Iowa – A bill to make it a felony to take minors [...]
GOP: Keep violent criminals in prison longer
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A proposal to keep violent criminals in prison longer has [...]
Ellison defiant to feds on transgender sports
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Attorney General Keith Ellison called it morally repugnant for President [...]
Hortman frets over Medicare under Trump
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The leader of the Minnesota Hiuse painted a grim picture [...]
ICE raids Duluth roof project: Mexicans hauled off
DULUTH, Minn. – Federal agents pulled roofers off their jobs in the upscale Lakeside [...]
Trump to Minnesota: Conform or lose federal funds
WASHINGTON -- The new U.S. attorney general, Trump-appointee Pam Bondi, threatened to cut off [...]
Performance rating: Less than middling for Repinski
ST.PAUL, Minn. – State Representative Aaron Repinski, R-Winona, has introduced his eighth bill of [...]
How they voted: Trump budget /1
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted 217-215 in favor of the Trump bill to [...]
Anti-child porn bill targets software purveyors
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A bill is bouncing around the Minnesota Senate to stiffen [...]