With average Minnesota gas prices up over $4.70 per gallon and summer well underway, people are feeling pinched at the pump, where depending on the vehicle, it costs most drivers somewhere between
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Anybody who knows anybody house hunting in the Twin Cities right now has probably heard the horror stories: in the current real estate market, some people are putting offers on
Anyone who’s spent time in Northeast Minneapolis is likely to have at least a passing awareness of the neighborhood’s status as the heart of the Twin Cities’ Ukrainian community. Maybe
As more and more Minnesotans have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in recent months, many have resumed activities forsaken for more than a year — eating inside a restaurant, hugging friends
With less than a month until the State Fair begins, vendors are hiring staff to serve the droves of people who could turn out during the 12 days of the
After the shock of Covid-19’s arrival in Minnesota last spring, and the virus’s ebb over the summer, the pace of new cases of the disease picked up during the fall.
In March of last year, Jen Fuller was working at both the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board and at Minneapolis Public Schools. Then Covid-19 hit, and both positions were cut.
Minnesotans who have watched the bar scene across the border from the Twin Cities in Hudson, Wisconsin remain relatively lively during parts of the Covid-19 pandemic when their own state’s watering
A month ago, the world marked the one-year anniversary of learning about Covid-19, at that time a still-unidentified respiratory virus causing pneumonia in patients in Wuhan, China. In the weeks
In 2011, Corey and Ket Christianson relocated from Singapore to buy the grocery store in the northwest Minnesota town of Badger, on Highway 11 southwest of Roseau. Badger, a town
If you haven’t returned your absentee ballot to your elections office, you might want to do that now — and not by U.S. mail. On Thursday — five days before
With the exception of a couple of infamously long and drawn out recounts, and a switch to takes-long-to-tabulate ranked-choice voting in Minneapolis, St. Paul and St. Louis Park, Minnesotans are
The period in late spring and early summer is the time of the year when construction crews are typically hard at work, getting things built, whether it’s roads, bridges, office
Minnesota hasn't had many presidential primary debates. South Carolina has hosted 21.
As part of a bankruptcy plan, Shopko shuttered all its stores last spring. Now, small Minnesota towns are figuring out what to do with them.
These days, the sectors with some of the highest earners in the U.S. are tech and finance. Minneapolis-St. Paul doesn’t have as much tech or finance — particularly tech investing and finance — compared to the country’s biggest cities.
Food manufacturing, accounting for about 700 firms that make up about 15 percent of all manufacturing jobs in Minnesota and is driven by firms like General Mills held relatively steady through the Great Recession has seen a 4 percent increase in jobs since 2013.
In 2018, Minnesota households earned a median $70,315 in income, down slightly from the year prior.