A nationwide bipartisan group of former federal and state judges released a letter Monday, calling on an Eighth Circuit judge to dismiss the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) complaint against two Minnesota federal judges. Toward the end of September, the DOJ began efforts to dismiss Minnesota Distri...
Local
A Minneapolis man with a history of assaulting women is facing charges for trying to pull a woman through an open apartment window in St. Paul last week, before she fought him off. Eduart Gomez Ochoa, 28, was charged Monday in Ramsey County court with one count of first-degree bu...
business
Minnesota businesses are still hiring seasonal workers as inflation pushes some people to look for extra holiday cash. A Rosedale Center store, Rose & Loon, is adding five new hires for the holiday season. Emily Sortor said new faces will soon be working alongside her. “It’s goin...
schools
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS learned of a warning to a North Metro district over ongoing financial problems that could become taxpayer problems. KSTP verified the letter with the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). In it, MDE writes that it has serious concerns about the financial mana...
News
The Trump administration is attempting to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey for what it calls disclosing classified information, employing the unusual maneuver of bypassing a grand jury — a move Comey's lawyers say makes the case legally invalid....
News
A Minnesota appeals court said a jury had enough evidence to convict the owner of a Medicaid provider agency in a multimillion-dollar Medicaid fraud case....
News
Orono climbs into the top 10, while four teams join the Minnesota Top 25 as playoffs begin this week.
government
5 INVESTIGATES created an interactive map showing operational, decommissioned and proposed data centers in Minnesota. Most of the facilities are either enterprise data centers or colocation facilities. Enterprise data centers are operated and maintained solely by one company and ...
News
Minnesota has quietly provided more than $1 billion in tax breaks to data centers over the past decade, subsidizing everything from computer equipment and software to electricity and cooling systems. The tax incentive, originally created to attract and grow the data center indust...
News
A new development in St. Peter aims to reinvent the traditional manufactured home community. Rural communities across the state have tight housing markets....
safety
Minnesota hunters heading into the Saturday, Nov. 7 firearms opener have new deer rules to review and a mixed but mostly favorable outlook across the state....
News
Good Monday evening! It’s a cold, wet, and gloomy start to the week across Minnesota, with showers continuing tonight and temperatures falling into the mid-40s. Tuesday stays mostly cloudy and seasonably cool. A few showers may linger early, but much of the day looks quieter with...
News
A man has been charged with burglary and attempted kidnapping, only months after being charged during a similar attack only miles away and previously being released from custody....
