University of St. Thomas announces $10 million donation for its two-year...
The University of St. Thomas on Thursday announced an anonymous $10 million donation that will sustain funding for its two-year school in Minneapolis, the Dougherty Family College. The Dougherty...
View ArticleMN Gov. Tim Walz pushes back against food fraud criticism
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz pushed back Thursday against critics who say his administration should have done more to thwart what federal prosecutors have called a scheme to take advantage of the COVID-19...
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Newspaper students hold ice cream fundraiser after Bethel University cuts...
Students with Bethel University’s student newspaper are holding an ice cream fundraiser this weekend to help offset a recent reduction in school support. Makenzi Johnson, editor of the Bethel Clarion,...
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Protesters and supporters turn out at St. Paul library’s drag story hour
More than 100 people showed up to attend a drag story time at a St. Paul library Saturday morning despite reported threats to kill the librarians holding the event. Librarians speaking at a city...
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‘A simpler time’: Students who attended Washington County Rural Schools...
When Sandra Lundin Valleen and her family moved to Scandia in 1960, it was like stepping back in time. She went from an all-grades elementary school in Sauk Centre, Minn., to Goose Lake School, a...
View ArticleWilder Foundation plans to proceed with sale of Stillwater area land to...
Even after learning that the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation planned to sell 600 acres of land it owns in northern Washington County to a Catholic youth organization, River Grove elementary school...
View ArticleRuling: MN school segregation not unconstitutional unless lawmakers intended it
Racial segregation in Twin Cities schools does not violate the state constitution unless it can be proven that state lawmakers intentionally caused it, an appeals court panel ruled Monday. The ruling...
View Article$11M offer for Wilder Forest land to save Stillwater-area school comes too...
An $11 million offer that would have allowed River Grove elementary school to remain at Wilder Forest in northern Washington County appears to have come too late. The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation board...
View ArticleSt. Paul City Council convenes early learning, child care committee
In an effort to explore the possibility of subsidizing early learning and child care programs citywide, the St. Paul City Council on Wednesday approved the creation of a new committee to study how such...
View ArticleNative American culture is topic of upcoming Stillwater event
Amber Annis, the Minnesota Historical Society’s director of Native American Initiatives, will be the featured speaker at an event next week sponsored by The Native American Parent Advisory Council of...
View ArticleWoman who mailed lewd packages to St. Anthony schools superintendent won’t be...
Prosecutors have agreed to dismiss a gross misdemeanor harassment charge they filed against the woman who had two lewd packages mailed to the St. Anthony-New Brighton schools superintendent. Alicia Ann...
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In Shoreview, a $3.8 million play area is an ode to the outdoors — and the...
A zip line featuring a molded bucket seat with boarding at either end of the corridor isn’t the main attraction within the newly-improved Shoreview Commons, but it’s up there. The “ZipKrooz” area took...
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You’re a winner: Listening in on ‘the call’ for the Nobel Prize
This is what it’s like to get “the call” — the Swedish Academy of Sciences ringing you up to say you won the Nobel Prize. It’s usually a dream-of-a-lifetime call that only the special few get in...
View ArticleUMN, Minnesota State colleges join forces to take on nursing shortage
A dire shortage of nurses in the workforce is the focus of a new collaboration between the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State college and university system. With the Coalition for Nursing...
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State Sen. Karin Housley criticizes Wilder Forest sale
State Sen. Karin Housley on Monday criticized the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation’s decision to sell the Wilder Forest property in northern Washington County to the Minnesota Catholic Youth Partnership,...
View Article1,500 Teamsters members at University of Minnesota campuses authorize strike
About 1,500 workers at the five University of Minnesota campuses are set to strike later this month. Members of Teamsters Local 320, which represents custodians, cooks, mechanics, groundskeepers and...
View ArticleACT scores fall to historic lows for HS graduates hit by pandemic school...
This year’s high school graduates from Minnesota and the rest of the country posted historic low scores on the ACT college admissions exam, the testing nonprofit announced Wednesday. Nationwide, the...
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South Washington County schools to go ‘back to the drawing board’ for bond...
Voters in the South Washington County School District in August decisively rejected a $462 million bond request by a nearly two-to-one ratio. Now, district officials say they are “going back to the...
View ArticleSouth St. Paul voters to decide on two school levies, pick from 22 board...
Years with statewide elections are typically quiet for local school districts, but not this year in South St. Paul. The small Dakota County school district of 3,200 students has two tax levies before...
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UMN regent criticized for asking if diversity to blame for low enrollment at...
A member of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents is under fire for suggesting the relatively high percentage of nonwhite students at the University of Minnesota-Morris could be hurting its...
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