Officials say highway patrol troopers from South Dakota and Minnesota have made 188 arrests and issued 522 warnings during a joint enforcement operation on a stretch of Interstate 90. The daylong enforcement effort took place Thursday on I-90 between Chamberlain, …
Partly for safety reasons, permits are required to hunt for fossils at a St. Paul, Minn., park where a rockslide killed a fourth-grader on a field trip, left one missing and injured two others. St. Paul requires applicants to sign …
President Barack Obama has declared a major federal disaster for five southwestern Minnesota counties hit by an April ice storm. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says Obama declared the disaster for Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles and Rock counties. Gov. Mark …
Liability claims for improper uses of Minnesota’s driver’s license database could reach several million dollars. Many cities, counties and state agencies involved in recent breaches are backstopped by insurance and rainy-day funds that would soften the blow of potential payouts. …
The spring snowstorm is being blamed for more than 700 accidents across Minnesota. The State Patrol said it responded to 296 crashes plus 440 vehicles that either spun out or went off the road from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. …
An advocacy group is out with a new report that illustrates Minnesota’s vulnerability to weather disasters. The report released by Environment Minnesota includes a clickable online map showing that 82 of Minnesota’s 87 counties have sustained federally declared weather disasters …
Minnesota hockey coaches and officials say temporary rules adopted to make the youth game safer do more good than harm and should be made permanent. Minnesota Hockey introduced tougher penalties for dangerous hits after Benilde-St. Margaret’s player Jack Jablonski became …
Officials say this has been the deadliest winter on Minnesota ice in more than five years. The Department of Natural Resources says five people have died after going through the ice in Minnesota this winter. A sixth is missing and …
Auto insurance companies say false and exaggerated injury claims are on the rise in Minnesota. The National Insurance Crime Bureau says suspicious personal injury claims have tripled since 2008. Minnesota ranked tenth in the nation in 2011 with 53 such …
A Minneapolis man is accused of taking a customer’s Lamborghini for a joyride and then crashing it in a park, causing $82,000 in damage to the luxury sports car. Forty-year-old David Norman Juntunen was charged Friday with unauthorized use of …