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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed spending more than $3 billion to settle claims dating back more than a century that American Indian tribes were swindled out of royalties for oil, gas, grazing and other leases.

" programs that are vulnerable to cuts as the economic climate has worsened and taken a toll on state budgets.

Not long ago a Tribune reader came to the newsroom and asked me to check into something hea d heard years ago about Albert Lea Lake.

Do Emails Reveal Global Warming is a Myth? Privacy and Confidentiality Have Never Stopped the Media from Leaking Things Before.

Companies can grow despite the recession and even get financial incentives for doing so if they know where to look.

Whether or not Minnesota ever adds another passenger train service, the state is facing a steep price in coming years for upgrading its rail system.

Members of a Minnesota Native American community with a nuclear power plant as its neighborA rallied FridayA to voice opposition to a utility's expansion plans there.

27, 1909: The return of St. Olaf College president J.N. Kildahl the day before Thanksgiving made the holiday especially joyous.

Aided by grain loadings and increases in a number of other cargoes, small North American railroads picked up more shipments in the week ending Nov.

Dear Answer Man, I know you're not a humbug and will know the answer to this: Was Charles Dickens ever in Minnesota? I know he went on speaking tours of the United States.

Statistics show that the holidays are the most dangerous time of year for drunk driving.

A legal settlement has been reached paying thousands of dollars to a family whose middle school student was injured playing kickball during summer school in North Mankato, Minn.

Future commuter rail corridors in Rochester have been tentatively mapped and will be on display Monday in a public open house to start the long process of updating the area's long-range transportation plan.

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A federal agency that markets electricity generated by Missouri River dams is increasing its partnerships with wind farms in the Dakotas.

Share + Oct 27, 2009 8:13 am US/Central BISMARCK, N.D. 1 of 1 Seventy percent of the durum crop in North Dakota and Montana was found to be top quality compared with 43 percent last year.

Nebraska looks to fairing better than other dry bean producing states like North Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan.

An Inver Grove Heights plan to turn the deteriorating Rock Island Swing Bridge into a scenic Mississippi River viewpoint comes with a $300,000 catch for Dakota County.

Members of Tri-County Electric Cooperative enrolled in Operation Round Up recently gave $5,640 in donations to worthy causes in September.

Ground work has begun on a $90 million Sanford Heart Hospital that doctors say will incorporate cutting-edge technology and minimally invasive techniques to reduce the need for open-heart surgeries.