4 individual actions are best at fighting climate change A recent scientific review finds that having one fewer child, giving up your car, avoiding air travel and eating a vegan diet are the most-impactful actions one person can take to cut their carbon emissions. This MPR News Earth Week fact of the day is sponsored by All Energy Solar.
Photographer Craig Blacklock is best known for his sweeping images of Lake Superior. But his new book, "St. Croix & Namekagon Rivers: The Enduring Gift," is an up-close portrait of the rivers forming the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, established 50 years ago by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Many school referendums attract little or no spending. Most campaign finance advocates have big-money national contests and high-powered lobbyists to occupy their attention. Still, Minnesota School Boards Association communications director Greg Abbott said increasingly, school tax votes are worth closer scrutiny.
Southwest pilot Tammie Jo Shults is being praised for her cool demeanor after her plane suffered a blown engine — killing one passenger — and she was forced to make a one-engine, emergency landing in Philadelphia with nearly 150 people onboard Tuesday. | NewsCut: A pilot who was told women can't fly saved a planeload of people.
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered inspections of fan blades on some jet engines of the same type as the one that blew apart on a Southwest Airlines flight, causing the death of a passenger and injuring seven others.
Even as prospects dim for a bill to charge pharmaceutical companies a fee for every opioid they sell in the state of Minnesota, supporters of the proposal remain defiant. There are signs that the issue of opioids may become a campaign issue this November.
Attorneys in the case of a Minneapolis police officer accused of criminal sexual conduct on Wednesday offered very different accounts of the night of the alleged crime.
When Lane Murdock, a high school sophomore, heard that 17 high school students and educators had been killed in a shooting in Parkland, Fla., she says she felt numb.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., may not have any interest in allowing a vote on a measure to make it harder for President Trump to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, but that isn't stopping some Republicans from forcing the debate.
President Donald Trump said that although he's looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he feels it's "not going to be fruitful."
