Speaking publicly for the first time about the night he shot 911 caller Justine Ruszczyk, ex-Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor described hearing a bang and reacting to his partner's fear as he moved to shoot the figure next to the squad.

The latest controversy is over signs that went up that say "Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote." The old signs just said "Historic Fort Snelling." Bdote is the Dakota word meaning the point at which two waters meet. One GOP lawmaker calls it "a rewriting of our history."
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The Minnesota House voted to amend a large health and human services bill with a statewide ban on conversion therapy.

According to a new NPR/Ipsos opioid poll, 71 percent of Americans surveyed also say the government should do more to curb the epidemic.

North Korea reportedly insisted the U.S. agree to pay $2 million in medical costs in 2017 before it released detained American college student Otto Warmbier while he was in a coma, according to a report published Thursday.

After more than a year of debate, the Board of Regents hold a special meeting Friday where it will discuss and potentially vote on renaming buildings named for Lotus Delta Coffman, Edward Nicholson, William Middlebrook and Walter Coffey.

There are several native groups that call Minnesota home, including Dakota and Ojibwe. But fewer and fewer people can speak the languages of those groups fluently. Bdote charter school in Minneapolis is trying to change that.

"In some ways we're better," says activist Melissa Mays. "In other ways, we're forever poisoned, damaged, traumatized ... that's not gonna ever be better."

Take a moment to do an inventory on your friends. How much diversity is there in your social circle?

Work will soon start on the Southwest light rail line, kicking off four years of construction on the $2 billion project. The Cedar Lake and Kenilworth trails will be closed in some areas for at least two years, Metro Transit officials said.