A new bison herd is roaming near the Mississippi River in the south Twin Cities metro. Spring Lake Park Reserve in Dakota County is the latest place in Minnesota to welcome the giant mammals. It’s part of a decades-long effort to both increase their numbers and restore native prairielands.
The last few elections for the Senate District 14 seat in St Cloud have been nail-biters, with just a couple hundred votes separating the candidates. The trend is expected to continue this year.
Election deniers in Minnesota are training some election judges. Groups led by election skeptics and deniers have been working to influence the behavior of Election Day judges, and in at least one case trying to persuade them to commit possibly unlawful acts. That “training” has alarmed state and local officials. Ready to toss out your pumpkins? Here's how to keep them out of the landfill. The U.S. produces lots of pumpkins each year — more than 2 billion in 2020 alone. But that year, only one fifth were used for food, which means Americans are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the gourds annually, just to toss them in the trash when Halloween ends. This Minnesota hazelnut can pump up your favorite recipe and the environment. Whether it’s the kind of cooktop you use or how much meat you eat, what you do in the kitchen is connected to the health of our environment. And here’s something easy you can do to help the climate this holiday season: swap the hazelnuts you might find at large grocers — they’re typically from Oregon and Turkey — with hazelnuts that are native to Minnesota when you bake. Build Your Ballot:MPR News and Populist have teamed up to allow you to create a personalized voting guide.
