Minnesota’s Hmong American Farmers Association is celebrating its recent purchase of 155 acres of land in Dakota County. The group said the land acquisition, in the works for a decade, will help many Hmong farm families build up their operations and plan for the long-term.

Steve Sviggum, vice chair of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, is coming under fire for a suggestion he made that the Morris campus is "too diverse" and that diversity might be making it harder to draw students there.

In an era when politics is sometimes defined by shouting and outrageous behavior, the two leading candidates for Congress in southern Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District held a thoughtful, measured debate Monday at the Owatonna Country Club.

While installing the 330-mile crude oil pipeline across northern Minnesota in January of 2021, Enbridge crews punctured an underground aquifer in Clearwater County, causing uncontrolled flows of groundwater.

MPR News host Angela Davis talks about the payment increase and the history and future of Social Security.