This weekend brought the first multi-day rock music festival to Harriet Island since Taste of Minnesota died with a sparsely attended whimper two years ago. The River's Edge Music Fest enjoyed much bigger crowds and lots of raves on Twitter.

Event promoters aim to make the new River's Edge Music Festival a high-profile destination event akin to California's Coachella or Lollapalooza in downtown Chicago. Will it stack up? We'll know soon. The weekend-long outdoor concert on downtown St. Paul's Harriet Island, featuring the Dave Matthews Band among many others, launches Saturday.

The River's Edge Music Festival debuts on Harriet Island June 23rd and 24th. It will feature a mixture of rock styles put together by concert promoters Live Nation. That company will also handle St. Paul's Fourth of July festival at the same location.

St. Paul-based Ecolab plans to close its Grand Forks office next July, the Herald reports. The facility has 144 full-time employees who support accounting, customer service, human resources, information technology and other administrative functions related to Ecolab's Pest Elimination business. Layoffs could begin as soon as January. Some employees may be able to work from home or take other jobs at Ecolab locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois or Indiana.

Federal nuclear regulatory officials and Prairie Island Indian Community have agreed to cooperate on some issues as the agency considers how to deal with the high-level nuclear waste that has been piling up for years at Xcel Energy’s nuclear plant in Red Wing. Nuclear plants nationwide have been storing their own spent-fuel waste as long-discussed plans for a national waste repository have stalled.