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‘It’s not something you do by posting on Twitter’: Man behind Ross Perot’s campaign gives Musk third-party advice

‘It’s not something you do by posting on Twitter’: Man behind Ross Perot’s campaign gives Musk third-party advice

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

POET planning a friendlier way to produce ethanol

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) -- A Sioux Falls-based ethanol company intends to stay economically competitive while being nicer to the environment. That's why POET is working with Antora, a California-based maker of thermal batteries, on a new approach....

Minnesota Senior Games returns to Mankato in August

Minnesota Senior Games returns to Mankato in August

MANKATO — Minnesota Senior Games returns to Mankato after a two-year absence, bringing Olympic fun for the older crowd. The National Senior Games, an organization dedicated to advocating for a healthy lifestyle for people ages 50-plus, is hosting...

SICK's Displacement Sensor OD200 Offers High Performance, Even on Complex Surfaces

SICK's Displacement Sensor OD200 Offers High Performance, Even on Complex Surfaces

SICK's Displacement Sensor OD200 Offers High Performance, Even on Complex Surfaces MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 9, 2025 - SICK announces the launch of the OD200, a miniature measuring distance sensor for short ranges that will set new standards in...

Businesses close months after Minneapolis water main break

Businesses close months after Minneapolis water main break

Businesses on West 50th Street and Penn Avenue South in southwest Minneapolis say the future is uncertain after a water main break badly damaged their building this winter. "It's sad to see this whole corner just devastated like this," Paperback...

Sparks see ‘opportunity’ against Napheesa Collier and the Lynx

Sparks see ‘opportunity’ against Napheesa Collier and the Lynx

LOS ANGELES — The Sparks are looking to make a statement against the first-place Minnesota Lynx on Thursday afternoon at Crypto.com Arena. “It would be a huge opportunity to beat them at home and that’s how we’re approaching it,” Sparks coach...

Where's The Most Remote Spot In All Of Minnesota?

Where's The Most Remote Spot In All Of Minnesota?

Go anywhere outside the Twin Cities Metro and there's a lot of wide open spaces in Minnesota. Greater Minnesota has some desolate spots, whether you're talking about the Boundary Waters in the north, or the seemingly endless farm fields in the...

Layoffs hit UMN Extension food educators as MN grapples with Trump’s budget

Layoffs hit UMN Extension food educators as MN grapples with Trump’s budget

For 35 years, the University of Minnesota Extension Service has funded nutrition education in low-income areas statewide, including innovative projects like the medicine garden at the Ramsey County Fairgrounds, which connects the county’s military...

New 2025 MN State Fair Food: Predicting the Winners and Losers

New 2025 MN State Fair Food: Predicting the Winners and Losers

For years, MinnPost aggregated critical reactions to new Minnesota State Fair food offerings. Before that public-service tradition's sad pandemic demise, the City Pages review chew crew was reliably the toughest to satisfy. CP's own pandemic...

Phil Jenni on running the nation’s busiest wildlife rehab — based in Minnesota

Phil Jenni on running the nation’s busiest wildlife rehab — based in Minnesota

They’re the busiest wildlife rehab center in the U.S. — located smack in the middle of the Twin Cities — and on pace to treat over 22,000 animals this year. Phil Jenni with the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota joins to explain how they...

The versatile Maddyn Greenway

The versatile Maddyn Greenway

The versatile Maddyn Greenway Published 8:30 am Tuesday, July 8, 2025 Maddyn Greenway is playing with Team USA this week but could also become Minnesota's all-time leading scorer in soccer and already has four state track titles to go with four...

Corps of Engineers seeks comments on Upper Pool 4 dredge cut

Corps of Engineers seeks comments on Upper Pool 4 dredge cut

GOODHUE COUNTY, MINNESOTA, UNITED STATES 07.09.2025 ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking public comments on a draft Environment Assessment, or EA, for a proposed routine dredge cut below Goose Bay in...

Minnesota lawmaker shootings suspect tells judge he’s ‘looking forward’ to facts coming out at trial

Minnesota lawmaker shootings suspect tells judge he’s ‘looking forward’ to facts coming out at trial

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Minnesota on track for above above-average tornado season

Minnesota on track for above above-average tornado season

ST. PAUL — In the last few weeks, severe storms have spun up tornadoes across Minnesota, Iowa and North Dakota, with one twister near Enderlin claiming three lives last month. In Minnesota alone, there have been 48 tornado reports so far this...

Former University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Director Peter Olin remembered

Former University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Director Peter Olin remembered

Former University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Director Peter Olin passed away Monday, June 30, 2025, in Saint Paul. Peter Olin served as the Arboretum’s third director for nearly 24 years, from 1984 to 2008. He leaves behind a legacy as a...

New app helps Minnesotans track turtles, keep them safe while crossing roads

New app helps Minnesotans track turtles, keep them safe while crossing roads

WCCO By Jeff Wagner Click here for updates on this story Minnesota (WCCO) — Minnesota summers means turtles are on the move, and a new app helps them cross roads safely. “I moved into a house at the intersection of two ponds and I noticed turtles...

University of Minnesota researchers: More nature, less concrete to control Mississippi River flooding

University of Minnesota researchers: More nature, less concrete to control Mississippi River flooding

The concrete walls and barriers that line much of the Mississippi River along cities in the Upper Midwest aren’t suited for managing floods.Certain hot spots, including portions in St. Paul, brace for flooding each spring when the river frequently...

Minnesotan with troubling driving history runs stop sign and causes fatal crash, State Patrol says

Minnesotan with troubling driving history runs stop sign and causes fatal crash, State Patrol says

A pickup truck driver failed to obey a stop sign in east-central Minnesota and caused a crash that killed the other motorist and critically injured a passenger, officials said Thursday.The crash occurred about 6 p.m. Wednesday near Hinckley on...

Minnesota Aurora’s Mariah Nguyen brings Spicy Uno and confidence into playoffs

Minnesota Aurora’s Mariah Nguyen brings Spicy Uno and confidence into playoffs

And One with Britt Robson | Minnesota Timberwolves analysis and exlusive commentary from sports columnist Britt Robson. Delivered weekly. It’s a ritual. At the beginning of every road trip, after the Minnesota Aurora FC team bus pulls away from...

Minnesota on track for above average tornado season

Minnesota on track for above average tornado season

Minnesota on track for above average tornado season Published 5:18 am Thursday, July 3, 2025 By Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton, Minnesota Public Radio News In the last few weeks, severe storms have spun up tornadoes across Minnesota, Iowa and...

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