Frank Lloyd Wright began calling his idealized vision of an American community “Usonia” in the 1930s and the Usonian homes he built then were affordable and simple, and showcased the influential architect’s utopian vision.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit heard oral arguments Thursday by two Minnesota farm wineries that claim a state law harms their businesses because it prevents them from using grapes, unfermented juices and honey from other states and countries.
Read moreA construction trade group representing 22,000 employees filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Minneapolis school district’s policy to only grant labor agreements to contractors who use union workers.
Read moreSpeaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday the House will vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate after an upheaval that split Democrats and clouded their agenda. But Pelosi said the measure won’t name Ilhan Omar, the freshman Democrat whose comments about Israel sparked the uproar.
Read moreack in January, Democrats welcomed their brash young newcomers to Congress with smiles and hugs. That was before the new colleagues dragged the party’s simmering divisions over Israel into the open.
Read moreIn an ongoing battle over First Amendment rights on college campuses across the country, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro is pushing back against university policies that conservatives say are designed to stifle their speech.
Read moreUnder the threat of criminal prosecution, landlords say they are forced to be the carriers of the government’s “ideological” message in violation of their protected free speech.
Read moreRepublicans flipped the open seat in a special election Tuesday evening, broadening their narrow control over the state Senate.
Read moreVoters in northern Minnesota will decide in a special election Tuesday whether Republicans will expand their narrow control ofthe state Senate as a new Democratic governor begins his first term.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit cleared a Wisconsin bank Thursday of claims it aided and abetted a $194 million Ponzi scheme, finding it was not aware of the fraud when it opened and serviced the scammers’ accounts.
Read moreThe Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday reversed the nuisance conviction of a protester who helped block an interstate as part of a mass demonstration after the officer-involved shooting death of Philando Castile in 2016.
Read moreMinnesota’s attorney general accuses Teknicians Inc. of running a tech-support scam, falsely claiming victims’ computers are infected with viruses, and charging hundreds of dollars to “fix,” and falsely claiming association with Microsoft, in Hennepin County Court.
Read moreMinnesota pollution regulators granted the final state permits Thursday for the operation of a contentious $1 billion copper-nickel mine and processing plant in the Superior National Forest.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday in two Minnesota boys’ challenge to the state high school arts and athletics association’s policy of barring boys from participating on competitive dance teams.
Read moreTwo statewide bird conservation groups and local environmentalists claim Minneapolis’ proposed rezoning plan would increase housing density and relax regulations at the expense of natural resources such as trees and lakes.
Read moreA federal judge ordered Minnesota-based Sellers Playbook Inc. to pay $20 million to the state and Federal Trade Commission to resolve claims that it lured people into paying for its business coaching program by claiming they could make thousands of dollars per month selling items on Amazon.
Read moreFormer pro wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura told a federal jury Wednesday that the Mongols Motorcycle Club is not a criminal gang and did not commit crimes when he was a member in the mid-1970s. “Nobody in the club ever told me to commit a crime, ever,” Ventura said.
Read moreIn the Midwest, Democrats lost crucial Senate seats in Indiana and Missouri, giving Republicans firm control of the U.S. Senate, but Democrats racked up victories in hotly contested races for U.S. House seats.
Read moreFive-term Republican incumbent Erik Paulsen lost his House seat to Democratic challenger Dean Phillips in Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District, inching the Democrats closer to a House takeover.
Read moreA Republican congressman from Minnesota who won his seat by just 2 percentage points in 2016 faces the same Democratic challenger this year, sparking divisions among neighbors in the suburbs of the Twin Cities.
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