Also: Inflatable watercraft have people super pumped in the land of lakes. And diminishing wild rice harvests feed a debate over the best response.

The Minnesota Timberwolves took Joan Beringer with their first round draft pick and he's already being considered a steal.

An air quality alert due to wildfire smoke from Canada has been expanded to include the Twin Cities metro and much of northern, central and southwestern Minnesota until Friday night.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is facing a growing political headache as new revelations of fraud in a state program revive questions about his administration’s oversight of taxpayer funds. Federal investigators last week searched five housing service provider sites as they investigated what they called a “massive scheme” to defraud Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program,

House Republicans in Minnesota are asking for a federal audit of the state's Department of Human Services. The push is spearheaded by state Rep. Kristin Robbins, R-Maple Grove, who serves as chair of the Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee.

Friday brings warm temperatures and hazy skies before the heat and humidity ramp up this weekend in Minnesota.

Over Memorial Day weekend, 30 Canadians participated in Le Grand du Nord, a popular gravel bike race in Grand Marais that usually draws about 50 across the border. And that was before Minnesota’s entire Republican congressional delegation responded to devastating wildfires in Manitoba by complaining about the smoke.

Baetzold remembers breaking the butterfly record at his alma mater, North High, years ago. When later swimming for Iowa State's club team, he met Adam, a friend who swam the English Channel in 2015. Adam's story pushed him to set his own goal, first attempting the swim in 2022, which was canceled due to weather, giving him more practice time.

Here's a look back at the five worst losses of the season for the Twins (so far). Just to be clear, there have been enough of these this year that a bunch of rough ones won't even make the list. This one hurt more because of the context of the games that had come before.

The 2024 Arkansas Gatorade Player of the Year saw playing time in three games last season and completed 4-of-5 attempts for 50 yards and a touchdown while being mentored by Max Brosmer, who signed with the Vikings as an undrafted free agent in April.

The illness, called tularemia, is caused by the bacteria Francisella tularensis. People typically develop the illness from tick and fly bites, scratches from infected cats or by touching animals that have tularemia.

Homeless encampments were cropping up across the Twin Cities in summer 2020 when Minnesota debuted a pioneering new program that uses Medicaid dollars to help people find and keep housing. Five years later,