(Falcon Heights, MN) -- Attendance at this year's state fair continues to lag behind last year's record-breaking totals. Wednesday's numbers are not in yet, but through six days of the Great Minnesota Get-Together, this year's turnout was more than 60-thousand people shy of 2009's total up ...More
(St. Paul, MN) -- Veterans receive a lot of training in the military, but can they use some of it towards college credit? That's the question state college and university officials say a new on-line service will help prospective students answer. They're unveiling what's dubbed the "Veterans Education ...More
(Minneapolis, MN) -- Officials from Minnesota's largest city are scheduled to outline a bevy of street improvements planned for next year -- then detail which ones won't get done if the state cuts local government aid. Mayor R-T Rybak says Minneapolis is due 87-and-a-half-million-dollars in 2011 but over recent years ...More
(St. Paul, MN) -- A Ramsey County resident is the second confirmed human case of West Nile virus in Minnesota this season. In mid-August, a man in Yellow Medicine County was the state's first confirmed case of the mosquito-spread virus. The Department of Health's Dave Neitzel (NITE'-zull) says ...More
(Minneapolis, MN) -- Authorities have identified the railroad worker who was fatally struck and killed by a Northstar commuter train yesterday in Coon Rapids. Fifty-three-year-old Andrew Kim Weaver of Fridley was hit in between the Northstar line's Coon Rapids and Fridley stations just before 7 a.m. It was the ...More
(Undated) -- Good news for the unemployed in the Twin Cities and across the state. State officials say employers reported 41-thousand job vacancies in the second quarter, up 32-percent from the same time last year. That means there are now about five unemployed people for each job vacancy, down from eight ...More
