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(ABC 6 News) — Gov. Tim Walz announced Tuesday that Minnesota is the fifth state to effectively end veteran homelessness. Walz made the announcement alongside veterans and leaders from the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs (MDVA) and the Minnesota Interagency Council on Homelessness (MICH) at Veteran Village in Eagan. The announcement does not mean there […]

Minneapolis has agreed to pay $2 million to six people who say police officers fired rubber projectiles at them while they stood guard outside a gas station during the unrest that followed George Floyd's murder, with court judgments filed Monday. The plaintiffs are friends and family of the gas station's owners, who had watched the business get looted by rioters and returned on the night of May 30, 2020, to protect what remained.

Minnesota’s Department of Human Services made an additional $2.4 million in Medicaid overpayments to the White Earth Nation, of which Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is a member, under the Walz-Flanagan administration in 2019, as a state audit found that millions in additional payments to White Earth and Leech Lake that year were made after DHS determined the payment practice did not comply with state and federal legal requirements.

Jose Luis Lopez-Xique killed Kayli Arseth the day after she told him she didn't want to date.

A Maple Grove mother has been sentenced for stealing from her child’s youth softball association while serving as its treasurer. Kristin Allyenne Williams, 53, was charged in Hennepin County Court in December 2025 with one count of theft-by-swindle. On Oct. 8, she was sentenced in the case to 60 days in the Hennepin County Workhouse, which will be served by electronic home monitoring and/or work release. The home detention begins on Oct. 27. She will also be on supervised probation for three yea

Minnesota State is considering a plan to shift millions of dollars from its colleges to help two financially unstable universities – a move college presidents, students and employees condemned as the school system considers longer-term fixes to a growing financial crisis. The proposal, headed to the Board of Trustees...

A 25-year-old St. Michael man has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of his father, a longtime teacher and golf coach at Wayzata High School. Colton D. Christopherson was arrested Sept. 26 after Washburn County deputies were requested to conduct a welfare check at about 1:18 p.m. at a Casey Township residence on County Highway E near McKenzie Lake in Wisconsin. Upon arrival, deputies encountered the younger Christopherson exiting the property through the attached ga

Almost 40 prospective food truck owner-operators will eventually get their day in Dakota County District Court, as a St. Paul man faces felony theft charges. Omar Alexis Emmanuel Cruz, 41, is accused of taking large down payments from 37 parties to build custom food trucks. Those who paid more in advance were accorded faster service. None of the trucks were delivered.

With the help of federal tax credits, Xcel Energy could postpone it's next rate hike for at least two years.

It's news that's frustrating and confusing for 350,000 Minnesotans. Because of changes in federal funding, Medicare plans are being cut.