Snow falling at 1 to 2 inches per hour and 50-mph wind gusts are creating whiteout conditions. Eight to 15 inches of snow is expected, and travel is discouraged. Flights are grounded at MSP Airport, and Sunday events are now getting called off.

A new documentary explores the “city of the future” that was meant to provide a blueprint for urban centers across America. By Lorraine Boissoneault.

The medicinal chemicals are concentrated in the flowering buds of a cannabis plants. In Minnesota’s first report card on cannabis and chronic pain, more than 60 percent of patients responding to a state survey said they benefited greatly from using pot in inhaled or pill forms.

In a letter to listeners, Minnesota Public Radio pushed back on Mr. Keillor’s account that all he’d done was touch a woman’s back. The network cut ties with him last year.

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson tells Minnesota Public Radio that her state will be joining the growing roster of states who plan to sue the Trump FCC for their rushed, unpopular repeal of net neutrality. The FCC faces numerous lawsuits over the repeal in the new year, once the order formally hits the federal register in January. The lawsuits will focus on how the FCC lied repeatedly about the justifications for the repeal...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals reinstated a transgender man's discrimination lawsuit Tuesday alleging that employees at Starbucks coffee shops in Eden Prairie and Edina refused to serve him. Earlier this year, Hennepin County District Court threw out the complaint because the plaintiff, Paul Bray, 43, didn't prove the discrimination was based on his transgender status. The district court also ruled that Bray's right to sue over allegations from July 2013 had expired under the one-year statute of limitations established by the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA).

Minneapolis police have removed a memorial created by a white nationalist group to honour an Australian woman killed by a Somali-American officer. Identity Evropa said it created the "shrine" to Justine Damond after a prosecutor suggested there was not enough evidence to bring charges. Damond, 40, was killed after calling police to report a woman screaming outside her Minneapolis home in July.

When a Trillion Locusts Ate Everything in Sight. By Caroline Fraser.

The Democratic senator of Minnesota announced his plans to resign, a day after a sixth woman accused him of misconduct and dozens of his colleagues called for him to step down.

Garrison Keillor, the folksy former host and creator of "A Prairie Home Companion," has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over "allegations of his inappropriate behavior with an individual who worked with him." Keillor was axed a month after the public radio station received a report about his alleged "conduct" while he was still producing the show that he hosted from 1974 until he retired last year.

The creator of “A Prairie Home Companion” told The Associated Press that he was fired from Minnesota Public Radio.

GOP lawmakers are upset by Thunderbird Strike, a new game about Native traditions. By Daniel Starkey.

Jared Taylor choked a man until he blacked out. Steven Brown fired a .38 Special during a confrontation with his fiancée. Tom Bernardson punched a man so viciously that he put him in the hospital with a concussion. All three were convicted in Minnesota courts. And all three still work in law enforcement. They are among hundreds of sworn officers in Minnesota who were convicted of criminal offenses in the past two decades yet kept their state law enforcement licenses, according to public records examined by the Star Tribune.

The police officer who shot dead an Australian woman outside of her Minnesota home was already under investigation for 'violently' forcing a woman to hospital, court documents allege. Mohamed Noor reached over and shot Justine Damond, 40, multiple times from the passenger seat of his squad car while she spoke to his colleague on the drivers side in a back alley behind her upscale Minneapolis home.

Father calls for justice after meditation coach was shot dead by Minneapolis police who had been responding to her 911 call for help. By Jared Goyette.

The Minnesota State Fair introduces 31 new deep-fried, fattening, sweet, and savory foods to its 2017 culinary lineup and we can't wait. Have a defibrillator handy.

Minnesota is grappling with 73 cases of measles right now — more cases than the entire country had last year. The outbreak is thanks to people who don’t vaccinate their children, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. These people wrongly believe a debunked theory that vaccination causes autism. The Minnesota outbreak has exposed more than 8,000 people to the virus, mostly in schools and hospitals.

Health experts in Minneapolis are pointing fingers at anti-vaccine activists who hosted information workshops in Somali immigrant communities for the state’s worst measles outbreak in decades. There have been 41 cases of measles reported recently in Minnesota, according to the state’s department of health. Of those 41 cases, 34 are Somali Minnesotans.

Why a budget battle over a small state office could have big consequences for Minnesota. By Briana Bierschbach. (Apr. 17, 2017)

Minnesota is experiencing its largest measles outbreak since the 1990s following a targeted and intense effort by anti-vaccine groups there to spread the false belief that vaccinations cause autism. As of Thursday, health officials reported 41 confirmed cases, nearly all unvaccinated children from a Somali immigrant community in Hennepin County. The community has for years been a target of anti-vaccine groups, aided by Andrew Wakefield, a fraudulent former physician.