The Minnesota Department of Commerce says the state will receive $73 million in federal funds to help low-income families pay their heating bills. That's half of what the state got last year.
Here's what the St. Paul mayor is putting his focus on for the upcoming year.
The 15 employees will join on-air talent and producers as members of the SAG-AFTRA union.
The investigation prompted a SWAT response in an Eagan neighborhood on Tuesday.
She operated a psychic reading shop in Hopkins.
The latest reporting period averaged just under 1,300 new cases per day.
The property was bought in 2020, months after Jason Zucker was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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The county is now the 36th in the state with a confirmed presence of the invasive insect.
Authorities arrived to find the home fully ablaze.
The westbound lanes were closed in Edina from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday night.
Flooding and damage from a non-severe storm Wednesday evening.
Low-income Minnesotans can get Internet connections from CenturyLink for about $10 a month. The deal is part of CenturyLinks recent merger with Qwest. Comcast made a similar deal to win approval of its merger with NBC last month.
Sen. Al Franken says he is co-sponsoring a low-income energy assistance bill to help families pay their utility costs. Franken says funding has dropped despite high demand, adding he expects the measure to pass since both Republicans and Democrats get cold.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells KARE-11 a change in a federal formula could reduce the heating aid available to Minnesotans by $160 million. But she says the change is still not a done deal.
Applications are now available for low income families that need help taking care of their heating bills. The program runs from October through May.
One in three students in Fargo public schools now gets a free or reduced price lunch. The number is four in ten in Moorhead. The number of students in the area using the federally-subsidized program jumped almost 40 percent in the last year.
The federal health care overhaul was aimed at providing affordable health insurance to millions of Americans who lack it. But a low-income group falls into a kind of no-man's land for affordable coverage, and Minnesota officials are considering an optional program to help fill this gap. But there is a huge unknown: cost.
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