City workers are cutting down the old-growth trees in hopes of stopping the pest from spreading even farther. The city has already chopped down hundreds of infected trees this year.
The Buffalo health clinic shooter is accused of fatally shooting one person and injuring four others last year.
The latest from the state health department.
The driver was in a black 2006 Lincoln MKZ.
The framework deal includes spending on education, health care, human services and public safety, as well as tax cuts.
River levels are expected to rise through the week.
It emerged that the church leader was a registered sex offender.
The girl was found by a concerned citizen around 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
Around 1,000 goats and a litter of puppies were killed when a barn caught fire on Friday.
The suspect fled police in Osseo and was going south on County Road 81.
The individual's name has not yet been released.
Police say a large fight was happening on the ferris wheel before kids fled into the mall.
Jensen beat to multiple other hopefuls for the endorsement at Saturday's convention.
Minnesota made it through most of the summer without a new infestation of the emerald ash borer. But that's ended now that the pest has turned up in trees at the Fort Snelling Golf Club. The Agriculture Department will check nearby Dakota County to see if it should be added to the list of four counties where firewood is quarantined because of the bug.
Agriculture officials hope the insects -- a natural enemy of the ash borer -- will help combat a newly discovered infestation of the pest near the city's historic Summit Avenue.
Kare 11 reports crews will be lopping off tree branches and stripping bark on trees in six metro cities to find early signs of the pest.
MPR reports the Department of Agriculture will start hanging about 6,500 purple traps next week throughout the state. The beetle has already killed and infested millions of ash trees across the country, including several hundred in the Twin Cities metro.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is hoping trained detection dogs will help locate ash trees infested with the invasive beetles. The organization Working Dogs for Conservation claims to have found encouraging results in training dogs to find emerald ash borers.
Scientists who are monitoring the invasive pest in Minnesota have wrapped up the first year of a three-year study and say they found fewer infested trees than they expected and low numbers of the beetles in those that are infested.
The wasps will be released in Great River Bluffs State Park in Winona County, where a recent borer infestation was reported. The state has released the wasps on four separate occasions since the pest was first discovered in 2009.
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