A west metro company says it has developed a $10 test kit that can check for 17 conditions then direct users to treatment options online. The kit is waiting on FDA approval. But a physicians group says nothing will beat in-person care and that doctor visits will remain "the gold standard."

The Minnesota Court of Appeals will allow an Orono man to keep his residential wind turbine that city officials say violates the zoning ordinance. The turbine is not as large as those seen in rural Minnesota and Iowa, homeowner Jay Nygard's machine is a vertical-axis turbine about 20 feet high.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals gave AT&T permission to build a 450-foot cell phone tower just outside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The group Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness hopes Supreme Court justices will agree with a lower court that ruled the tower would be a blight on the federal wilderness area.

A group of landlords and tenants argue that the city's rental inspection requirements violate their constitutional rights against unlawful search and seizure. On Wednesday the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed an appeals court's decision to dismiss the claim and sent the case back to the lower court.

The Court of Appeals ruled that a lifetime ban on gun ownership for people convicted of "crimes of violence" does not violate the state constitution.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed a $60,000 judgment against the Minneapolis blogger known as Johnny Northside. A post led to the firing of a University of Minnesota employee, who then claimed the blogger had interfered with his contract with the U. In overturning the award the appeals court said the information was true and the blogger protected by the First Amendment.

A lower court rejected AT&T's proposal to build a 450-foot tower just outside the BWCA, ruling that the tower would intrude on the federally protected wilderness area. In its appeal the company emphasized the tower would be on privately-owned land outside the BWCA.