While loons and ducks share habitat on Minnesota lakes, they aren’t close relatives. Ducks are closer cousins to geese and swans.

Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s daily roundup of Minnesota news. There are at least 20 active fires in the Superior National Forest, which includes the BWCAW, according to the Star Tribune’s ongoing ...

Niron Magnetics boasts University of Minnesota-linked, homegrown technology that could reduce reliance on the rare-earth minerals.

State auditor candidate Nate George speaks at the Minnesota Republican Party Convention in Duluth, Minn., on May 29, 2026. Credit: Submitted photo via campaign One endorsement that did not erupt in ...

Instead of one Blue Line, imagine interconnected bus rapid transit routes linking north metro neighborhoods east-west and north-south.

Sugarloaf Cove sits on a protected bay of Lake Superior, surrounded by cliffs of volcanic rock 1.1 billion years old. Credit: MinnPost photo by Lydia Moran Diver Van Avery grew up in the Twin Cities ...

The financial squeeze from tariffs and other policies facing farmers has become a political issue in this election year.

Plus: Teen arrested for threats to schools; Black women in Minnesota more likely to be victims of violence; Twin Cities population projected to grow and more. Frederick Melo at the Pioneer Press ...

Will the Minnesota Legislature break out of its log jam? In the last two years, Minnesota has operated with a House split evenly between Republicans and DFLers, only the second time that has happened ...

Plus: Feds hand over evidence in Good, Pretti killings; heat wave this week; Walz pulls Guard from D.C. early The bodies of three missing boaters were recovered in Lake Pepin on Sunday night after a ...

Doug Grow, part of the original crew of MinnPost journalists, was a South Dakota-bred populist who started as a Watertown ...

Plus: Pickle pie at the State Fair; Minneapolis fires its comms chief; St. Paul to dismantle encampments; a bold wolf on Isle Royale; and more.