Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union have asked a federal judge to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct enforcement actions in and near schools.

An Alaska brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth after a first-of-its-kind procedure.

Here’s where you’ll find the Nov. 5, 2024 General Election results for U.S. President.

A cat aptly named Drifter is safe at home after sneaking out and getting trapped in a sewer for nearly eight weeks.

Several small-town tourist meccas in northern Minnesota are inundated in floodwaters after heavy rain earlier this week, while another powerful storm turned a New Mexico village into a lake.

Firefighters in Duluth, Minnesota battled 8-foot waves and freezing temperatures to rescue a dog who escaped his leash and jumped into Lake Superior.

Minnesota recorded a 20% jump in abortions in 2022.

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Inside northern Minnesota’s only abortion clinic, patients from Wisconsin and Texas sit among Minnesotans.

Kenzie Hauswirth broke a tie with 6:20 left and top-seeded Ohio State beat Minnesota Duluth 3-2 on Sunday for the Buckeyes’ first women’s Frozen Four championship.

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with murder in the fatal Christmas Eve shooting of a man at a cabin in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

President Joe Biden has taken his pitch to Georgia for $4 trillion in spending to rebuild America’s aged infrastructure and vastly expand the government social safety net.

2-seeded University of Michigan men’s ice hockey team will not be allowed to participate in the 2021 NCAA Championship due to positive COVID-19 test results, the NCAA announced Friday. Michigan (15-10-1) was set to take on No. AdThis is a disappointing finish for Michigan as there were high hopes for the Wolverines at this year’s tournament. There was belief that they could do some damage in the tournament despite a 4th-place finish in the Big Ten. The conference was very strong this season, with both Wisconsin and Minnesota finishing ranked among the top four men’s college hockey teams in the nation.

Since narrowly losing Minnesota in 2016, Trump has emphasized the state in hopes that a victory this year could offset losses in other states. David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth, which has produced anti-Biden ads, said Minnesota may help the Trump campaign build momentum. In 2016, Trump won that district, which includes the Democratic city of Duluth, by 15 percentage points. Duluth Mayor Emily Larson said the Trump campaign has far outpaced Biden in local yard signs — which indicates enthusiasm but may not ultimately affect the outcome. "One of the things the Trump campaign has been very good about is visibility in Duluth, but also in areas around Duluth,” Larson said.

(Glenn Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)ST. PAUL, Minn. The Minnesota Legislature passed a package of police accountability measures early Tuesday that includes a ban on neck restraints like the one that was used on George Floyd before his death in Minneapolis. Passage of the measures comes after nearly two months of negotiations that followed Floyd's death May 25. The Democratic governor had to call the special session to give lawmakers a chance to rescind the emergency powers hes been using to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The session also gave legislators another chance to pass the policing measures and a bonding bill, which they were unable to agree on during last months special session. The bonding bill fell to the wayside as legislators worked to pass police reform as time expired on the session.

(Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP)Minnesota's pardons board on Friday granted a posthumous pardon to a black man imprisoned a century ago in the alleged rape of a white woman, part of a case that included the infamous lynchings of three other black men in Duluth. The board voted 3-0 to pardon Max Mason, one of several traveling circus workers accused in the 1920 case. According to the summary, the young man made no mention of any attack when dropping off Tusken at her parents house but related the story to his father early the next morning. Mason was allowed to travel to the circus next city, but was re-arrested the next day, and eventually identified as an attacker by Tusken and the young man. In recent weeks we have seen an injustice at the hands of those who are sworn to serve and protect in the murder of George Floyd, Tusken said.

The homeless man who started a Duluth synagogue on fire has been sentenced. Matthew James Amiot was in court Friday before Judge Shaun Floerke. Floerke had sentenced one year and a day to Amiot's prison sentence but it was stayed. Instead, he faces four years of probation. It includes 90 days in jail, 192 hours of community service, and $66,000 in restitution.

Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, Georgia decorated as the Starcourt Mall from Stranger Things 3. (CNN) - The Georgia mall featured in the third season of the Netflix show "Stranger Things" is up for sale. Though the show painted the idea of a crowded shopping center, the once bustling suburban mall in Duluth, Georgia, is so empty that a decomposing body went unnoticed for two weeks in 2017. Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District Executive Director Joe Allen confirmed the sale to The Gwinnett Daily Post. However, Moonbeam only owns the largest chunk of Gwinnett Place Mall.

CNN video(CNN) - A man suspected of burning a synagogue in Duluth, Minnesota, said he tried to spit the fire out and walked away when he was not successful, according to a criminal complaint. An attorney representing Amiot said the man denies all allegations against him, according to Duluth affiliate KBJR. Police over the weekend said they do not believe the burning of the nearly 120-year-old synagogue was a hate crime. Investigators have no indication that the fire was motivated by hate or bias, Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken said. The synagogue could not be saved and was deemed a total loss, according to court documents.

Police do not believe the burning of a nearly 120-year-old synagogue in Duluth, Minnesota, was a hate crime. DULUTH, Minnesota (CNN) - Police do not believe the burning of a nearly 120-year-old synagogue in Duluth, Minnesota, was a hate crime. Investigators have no indication that the suspect arrested, Matthew Amiot, was motivated by hate or bias, Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken said in a Sunday news conference. "This may change as the investigation progresses," Tusken said. The ATF was called in to assist with the investigation, Duluth Fire Chief Shawn Krizaj said -- a standard move for fires involving places of worship.

The city of Duluth has dealt with three major storms on Lake Superior in less than two years, with the latest hitting last October. (WDIV)DULUTH, Minn. - Rapidly rising water levels in the Great Lakes are damaging shorelines and creating uncertainty for lakeshore residents. Duluth's construction project supervisor, Mike LeBeau, tells Minnesota Public Radio News high water levels are making the storms even more destructive. Lake levels began rising rapidly in 2014. But the higher lake levels are a boon for the shipping industry, which was complaining about record low water levels only six years ago.