Minnesota News

A Minneapolis-based boat retailer says it will close six of its 12 stores in Minnesota and Iowa and lay off 100 workers.

The National Weather Service says a brief tornado touchdown was reported east of Becker Saturday afternoon.

The four men sitting at a downtown coffee shop here recently told me a story that sounded too far-fetched to be true.

US Democrat Barack Obama is set this weekend to tout his foreign policy expertise on a trip to the Middle East and Europe, while his rival for the White House John McCain campaigns in America's heartland to ...

A legislative panel approved a plan Friday that boosts the salary for the head of Minnesota's State Board of Investment by $101,000, or 70 percent.

Jurors in Minnesota will soon be paid half of what they get now for a day of duty.

A female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was in the process of acquiring a blood meal from its human host Minnesota health officials say West Nile virus has stayed away so far this summer.

A hog farm fire has killed about 1,200 pigs in south-central Minnesota. The blaze broke out Tuesday night and consumed 2 of 3 barns about four miles southeast of Waldorf, in Waseca County.

The congressman-lead singer had a question for the guest keyboardist at the all-congressional band gig Wednesday night.

Today is Tuesday, July 15, the 197th day of 2008 with 169 to follow. The moon is waxing.

A U.S. House report says Minnesota was tied for last in the percentage of federal bridge funds it actually spent on bridges over a 5-year period.

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson has sued a central Illinois debt-collection agency for allegedly attempting to collect invalid debts from Minnesotans.

The U.S. Navy says its next two fast-attack submarines will be named Minnesota and North Dakota.

U of M has bright hopes in solar-powered car race Eds: APNewsNow. MINNEAPOLIS The University of Minnesota has sunny expectations for its solar-powered car.

Even though lawmakers pushed through a state gas tax hike this year, transportation officials say there isn't enough money for some expansion projects in central Minnesota.

Plymouth, Minnesota, gets bragging rights as the best small city to live in America.

The AMA reminds motorcyclists that Ride to Work Day is this Wednesday, July 16, and encourages all riders to put some extra fun in their daily commutes, save a little gas--and then take the long way home.

The third ship in the history of the U.S. Navy to be named the USS Minnesota will be a new nuclear attack submarine.

The former, colorful Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura announced that he will not be running for the Senate as an independent on CNN's "Larry King Live," deciding to stay out of an already-entertaining Senate ...

Immigration reform advocates and religious leaders hope hundreds of people will descend on a small Iowa town this month for a rally in support of workers arrested in a large raid at a meatpacking plant.