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.
This comes amid a White House effort to get its "Build Back Better" plan passed.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner has identified the man as David Rodney Hardaway.
The suspect died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
It happened last month at an Eastern Carver County Schools hearing.
The Wild forward scored with 7.2 seconds left to beat Anaheim.
There are few details at this stage as to what has happened.
Wiseman owns properties in both Minnesota, Nevada and China.
Betty & Earl's will shut down for two weeks before reopening under a new name.
The victim was described as a loving father of two who was devoted to his church.
A fundraiser was created to support the family after the "sudden and senseless loss."
The Lakers dusted off an old favorite to get a victory on Thursday night.
The coldest spots could dip to below 30 degrees overnight.
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.
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 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.
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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