Robbinsdale schools to make budget cuts to address $20M shortfall error
Administrators at Robbinsdale Area Schools said they will be making budget cuts and reducing staff after an error left the district with a $20 million shortfall. The district held a town hall meeting ...
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Richer countries are starting to pay poorer ones for climate change damages
With climate-related disasters getting more extreme, richer countries are piloting ways to compensate developing nations, since they bear the least responsibility for causing climate change.
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14-vote lead for DFL state House candidate up for review in Scott County recount
County officials will hand count ballots in the contest that could determine control of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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10 downtown St. Paul buildings ID'd as promising residential conversions
A recent study commissioned by the St. Paul Downtown Alliance identifies 10 buildings in the downtown area that could easily be converted from office space to residential units.
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Art Hounds: The M gets bigger, student-curated Black joy and fancy chairs you can't sit on
Art Hounds discuss the expanded Minnesota Museum of Art’s new wing, a show curated by students at the University of Minnesota about Black joy and a new exhibit with 20 chairs and five mini golf ...
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Queer couples marry at new LGBTQ+ center in Uptown Minneapolis after Trump win
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s reelection, queer Twin Cities residents are finding security at Queermunity, a café and social space that opened earlier this month.
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Percival Everett wins the National Book Award fiction prize
Everett's novel “James” is a retelling of Mark Twain's “Huckleberry Finn.” The prestigious literary prize also awards the best in non-fiction, poetry, translated literature and...
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The Justice Department is trying to make Google sell its Chrome browser
If a judge orders Google to sell Chrome, it could dramatically upend the multibillion-dollar online search business.
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Survivor tells story of fatal night in human smuggling trial
The jury in the federal trial to two men accused of human smuggling heard dramatic testimony Wednesday from a man who crossed the U.S. Canadian border in a snowstorm on Jan. 19, 2022. He was in a grou...
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Two former St. Paul school employees file lawsuit, alleging they were fired for raising financial concerns
Two former St. Paul Public Schools employees are filing a lawsuit against the district, claiming they were fired after raising concerns about how district leaders were handling finances.
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'Brad the Sheep' back home after three weeks on the lam
After three weeks evading capture and garnering social media fame along the North Shore, an Icelandic sheep nicknamed “Brad the Sheep” is safely back home on a farm in Carlton.
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