Congresswoman Betty McCollum took the top prize in this year’s Minnesota Congressional Delegation Hotdish Competition with her “Hotdish A-Hmong Friends”. This is McCollum’s second time winning the event–which has been held nine times. This year’s competition was hosted in Washington DC by Senator Tina Smith. Other hotdishes prepared this year: Sen. Smith’s “Herd on the […]

Governor Tim Walz delivers his first State of the State address tonight at the Capitol to a joint session of the Minnesota House and Senate. The speech comes more than halfway through a legislative session marked by major differences with Republicans over taxes, spending, and health care. To listen to the speech click HERE.    

A vote is expected in the state Senate today on a bill that beefs up the fight against Minnesota’s opioid crisis.  What makes the measure controversial is how additional programs are paid for: an annual licensing fee on opioid manufacturers and distributors. The Senate is also to vote on a bill that would increase reckless […]

A man and woman were rescued after their vehicle got stranded in flood waters about 9 miles southwest of Madison, in western Minnesota. They called 911 shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday to report they drove around a road-closed barricade and attempted to drive through flowing water on the road but the current was so strong […]

The man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents is due in a Barron County Wisconsin court this afternoon.  21-year-old Jake Patterson, is charged with two counts of intentional homicide and a count of kidnapping and armed burglary. Since his arrest in January, Patterson has communicated with TV journalists at least twice. In […]

A rural Rochester woman was arrested Monday after running over her adult son – intentionally. Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Scott Behrns says 58-year-old Cynthia Grund and her 37-year-old son got into a confrontation at her Salem Corners-area home because he had been drinking all day. Behrns says Grund told her son to leave and […]

Crews are on the scene of a train derailment in Le Sueur County. Just before five this morning a Union Pacific train left the tracks between Ottawa and the river. Emergency workers on the scene reported that the locomotive and four or five cars came off the tracks and landed in a creek. They also […]

The Scott County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a snowmobile crash Sunday afternoon that left two people dead. Deputies say the snowmobile with two riders was on a marked trail in a right of way when it collided with a power pole near Jordan. The driver 42-year-old Jeremy Pumper of Le Sueur died at the scene. […]

A Detroit Lakes, Minn. man says the popularity of a video that shows a BNSF freight train barreling through a monstrous snowdrift has taken him by surprise. Cory Bellefeuille was on a bridge near Hawley, Minn. on Sunday when he shot the video from the top of a bridge during a ground blizzard. The video […]

A Minnesota House committee is advancing a bill requiring “uniform criminal background checks” on firearms purchases following an emotional, five-hour debate. The DFL-backed gun safety legislation passed on a 9-7 party line vote and is now headed to the House Ways and Means Committee. The hearing ended just after midnight this (Thursday) morning without a […]