February 5, 2021

Crow Wing's eye in the sky put to use 30+ times in 2020

Calls included vehicles through ice, fires, missing children and a vulnerable adult, crash reconstructions, a duck hunter in need of rescue, a burglary in progress […]
February 5, 2021

Walz targets smoking, vaping with higher taxes

In his proposed budget, Gov. Tim Walz increases the tax on cigarettes and puts a new tax on vaping devices.   The DFL governor concedes that […]
February 5, 2021

Cook, Duluth and Hermantown receive DEED broadband grants

St. Louis County broadband projects received around $1 million in grant funding from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development’s Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant […]
February 5, 2021

A sexy Alexa, Dan Levy's M&M habit: Super Bowl ads to watch

It might not have seemed likely early in the pandemic, but the 55th Super Bowl Sunday is upon us yet again. Each year advertisers pull […]
February 5, 2021

Employers start hiring again, but 'not anywhere close' to recovering lost jobs

Construction workers at a site in Simi Valley, Calif., on Tuesday. Nationally, hiring resumed in January although the labor market still has a big hole […]
February 4, 2021

Australian man convicted in nearly $90M cryptocurrency scam

NEW YORK — An Australian man pleaded guilty Thursday to securities fraud for cheating investors of over $90 million by squandering money they spent on […]
February 4, 2021

US regulators launch review of stock market turbulence

WASHINGTON — The nation’s top financial markets regulators say they will look into whether recent stock market turbulence is an indication that current trading practices […]
February 4, 2021

Indigenous, historic preservation groups object to wind project near Jeffers Petroglyphs

The Big Bend project planned for southern Minnesota would be one of the state’s biggest wind farms, and paired with a large solar plant, would […]
February 4, 2021

Chicago mayor demands teachers return, union offers proposal

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday that the city was reviewing the teachers’ union latest proposal on COVID-19 safety protocols to return to […]
February 4, 2021

Biden team pitches US on big virus aid as Senate starts work

WASHINGTON — As senators launched an all-night session Thursday to lay groundwork for President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, the White House is […]