September 11, 2020

Coming up: How are Minn.'s minority-owned businesses navigating pandemic, economic crisis?

Only 12 percent of minority-owned businesses have received coronavirus relief loans. On Monday at 11 a.m., MPR News host Angela Davis looks at how Minnesota’s […]
September 11, 2020

Media access to wildfires, disasters varies widely by state

SAN FRANCISCO — Journalists have captured searing, intimate images of active and dangerous wildfires burning in California, due in large part to a decades-old state […]
September 11, 2020

Firm looks to build housing on Duluth municipal golf course property

On Monday, councilors will take up a resolution providing Consortium Minnesota Consulting Group LLC with the sole right to develop plans for the city-owned property […]
September 11, 2020

Las Vegas shooting victims closer to getting $800M payout

LAS VEGAS — More than 4,400 relatives and victims of the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history could receive a total of $800 million […]
September 11, 2020

Ex-Driscoll's exec sentenced for stealing from berry giant

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A former executive for one of the world’s largest berry suppliers was sentenced to federal prison Thursday and ordered to repay […]
September 10, 2020

Private equity won't fill Minnesota's pension gap

The state’s investment arm has a formal goal of earning 7.5% per year for pension plans. Thankfully, it has invested a big chunk of pension […]
September 10, 2020

Fair State Brewing becomes country's first unionized microbrewery

Twin Cities-based Fair State Brewing Cooperative has become the first microbrewery in the United States to unionize, as part of a wave of local craft […]
September 10, 2020

Black couple sues over social distancing fight at steakhouse

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Black couple who got into a fight with white customers at a Little Rock steakhouse who weren’t wearing masks and […]
September 10, 2020

Pentagon rescinding order to shutter Stars and Stripes paper

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is rescinding its order to shut down the military’s independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, in the wake of a tweet […]
September 10, 2020

Airlines, unions running out of time to get more federal aid

A couple hundred flight attendants and pilots rallied this week on Capitol Hill and tweeted at lawmakers, asking them for $25 billion in additional federal […]