May 3, 2019 After a search that latest nearly six months, Gov. Tim Walz announced he’d finally found the right person to take over the troubled Minnesota IT Services -- Tarek Tomes. A week after Tomes’ appointment, we learned Chris Taylor would be packing up his bags at the Minnesota Historical Society to go work at the Capitol as Minnesota’s chief inclusion officer, a position that has been elevated to assistant commissioner status. I spoke with each of the new state officials on today’s show,listen to it here.~ Angela Davis, MPR News host | Forecast | Updraft
Police continue to investigate but say the two young brothers were being cared for by a "capable adult" and that drugs and alcohol were not a factor in what happened.
The Minnesota Historical Society wants to make its sites more inclusive of all histories, and an example of its efforts came at an event for the Dakota community at Fort Snelling.
More than 100 teenagers rallied outside the Capitol on Friday to urge lawmakers to include a 100 percent clean energy mandate in final bill negotiations.
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The Minnesota Twins begin a road trip Friday night when they take on the Yankees in New York. They are leaving town after a home stand in which they won six out of seven games.
Duluth city administrators have proposed selling a section of one of its two struggling golf courses to provide badly needed housing. The plan goes before the Duluth City Council on May 13.
St. Paul police are seeking the public's help to find out what happened in a daylight shooting Friday that left a man dead outside a North End neighborhood grocery. It was the city's eighth homicide this year.
