Earlier this year, Gov. Mark Dayton set a Sept. 30 deadline to having a plan in place. A MnDOT spokesman now tells MPR News that the date is 'no longer valid' and haven't established a new deadline.
BMTN Newsletters Deliver The Biggest MN Stories
Canada is just the 2nd nation to approve a nationwide regulated pot market.
It follows an assault on a GOP candidate on Friday.
It follows an attack ad that ran last week.
Excelsior Blvd. is closed at Fairview Ave. until about 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Minnesota is first in the U.S. among states where over 90 percent of students take the test.
It's true. Kevin Garnett swears a lot.
The Tuesday jackpot was $667 million.
Mikko Koivu didn't play after learning that his wife went into labor.
The Bullseye is expanding its toy department at hundreds of stores.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating.
Details on her disappearance are still limited.
MnDOT officials tell MPR that foundation work on the new bridge crossing the St. Croix River downstream from Stillwater will begin next spring, rather than in 2014. The proposed four-lane bridge connecting Minnesota and Wisconsin will replace the 80-year-old Stillwater Lift Bridge. The entire project is estimated to cost up to $676 million and take about three years to complete.
Gov. Mark Dayton says state money earmarked for a new bridge over the St. Croix River can only be held until March 15. After that date, it will be spent on other needs. That gives Congresswoman Michele Bachmann limited time to get a bill passed by the House and signed by President Obama.
Crews building the St. Croix River bridge near Stillwater will have to drill through 85 feet of mud and muck before they hit sandstone -- then another 30 or 40 feet to reach bedrock. That helps explain why the cost of building the bridge will be nearly triple what we paid for the 35-W bridge in Minneapolis.
Gov. Mark Dayton and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker held a joint celebration Friday afternoon near the 81-year-old Stillwater Lift Bridge. It comes after President Obama signed the bill to exempt the new crossing from the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Construction on the $675 million four-lane bridge is likely to begin in early 2014 and take three years to complete.
The $700 million project is fully funded, but needs congressional action to bypass federal environmental regulations that protects rivers like the St. Croix from construction projects. The bill now goes to the House floor.
