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Hennepin County Attorney candidate envisions big changes

Reforms on policing, substance abuse, and juvenile detention are top of the list for Hennepin County Attorney candidate Mary Moriarty. This fall, the previous chief public defender of Hennepin County is running for Minnesota’s largest public law office, having...

Gorbachev’s 1990 visit to Minnesota was an enormous deal. Listed below are some highlights and memories.

Tom Dombrock, a history major at St. Thomas University, shouted out a greeting in Russian. The subsequent thing he knew he was shaking the hand of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Summit Avenue in St. Paul. After which the 2 men...

Big Tech could possibly be forced to pay for online news under laws aimed toward helping local publishers

The newspaper industry, which has been battling deep ad revenue declines within the digital age, is backing proposed laws that might force Big Tech to pay publishers for aggregating their news stories online. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act seeks...

Betty McCollum wins big in 4th Congressional District

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum won big over challenger Amane Badhasso within the 4th Congressional District DFL primary election Tuesday. With 180 of 212 precincts reporting, the 22-year congresswoman from St. Paul had received 83 percent of the vote to Badhasso’s...

Fed unleashes one other big rate hike in bid to curb inflation

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark rate of interest by a hefty three-quarters of a degree for a second straight time in its most aggressive drive in greater than three a long time to tame...
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St. Paul prevails in legal fight to raze, replace historic Hamline-Midway Library

Following 16 months of litigation, a Ramsey County district judge has given the town of St. Paul the go-ahead...
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St. Paul-based Securian Financial lays off 58 employees across departments

Securian Financial has notified 58 employees — roughly 2% of its total workforce — that their roles with the corporate are being eliminated in...

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum seeks thirteenth term in rematch with May Lor Xiong in 4th District

Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...

Believed to have been the oldest working nurse in Minnesota, Joyce Gimmestad retired at 88. She reflects on 7 many years in healthcare

Joyce Gimmestad hoped to succeed in 90 before retiring from being a nurse. Still, she retired on June 22, at 88, attributable to a...

Family of 83-year-old St. Paul man killed in hit-and-run: ‘We’ll forgive you. … Please turn yourself in’

For 30 years, John Bidon took each day runs around Lake Phalen near his St. Paul home. He’d stretch it out to 5 miles...