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Spring truck weight restrictions on state highways in Minnesota's north and north-central frost zones will end Friday, May 24. Spring load restrictions have now ended in all six Minnesota frost zones. Ending dates for spring load restrictions are established by monitoring roadway strength as weather conditions change. The information also is available toll-free by calling...

WASHINGTON – Today, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn issued for public comment a proposed rule designed to demonstrate the Administration’s commitment to restoring tribal homelands and furthering economic development on Indian reservations. The proposed rule will provide for greater notice of land-into-trust decisions and clarify the mechanisms for...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced Tribal Wildlife Grants awards to Native American tribes in 14 states to fund a wide range of conservation projects. “The mindful stewardship of fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats is a value that tribal nations share with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,” said Service Director Dan Ashe. “Tribal Wildlife Grants...

FARGO — Now that Memorial Day weekend has arrived and summer has unofficially begun, those taking to the woods should remember: Beware of ticks....

ST. PAUL — Democrats almost were giddy when Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill upping education spending $485 million in the next two years....

MAHNOMEN — Students at White Earth Tribal and Community College are protesting the new president’s decision to fire a handful of faculty and staff members earlier this week, saying those firings would irreparably harm the school’s Native American identity. Just two weeks into the job, President Vincent Pellegrino informed four of the school’s 10 or so faculty members...

Frank Lang, the head of Lang Nelson, one of Minnesota’s largest property management companies, does not brag of what he did for St. Thomas Academy — but he did plenty....

A Plymouth family paid $5,675 to secure a room at a facility in Golden Valley for their 87-year-old mother, who died before she moved in, but the facility refused to refund the money. A family of an 83-year-old woman who had dementia paid $750 to hold an apartment at an assisted-living facility in Mankato, but they later questioned the fee after learning it may have violated...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Navajo Code Talkers are legendary. Then there was Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes, the Pima Indian who became a symbol of courage and patriotism when he and his fellow Marines raised the flag over Iwo Jima in 1945....

Minnesota’s 2013 Legislature took important strides forward in education — especially for the state’s youngest students. Last week, legislators and Gov. Mark Dayton agreed to put $485 million in new funding into programs from preschool through 12th grade in the next two years....

Ready for a new challenge after leaving the Marines, Ryan Erickson joined the ranks of veteran entrepreneurs in 2008 when he became majority owner of Erickson Builders and Co. in Rogers, the construction company his father had started 13 years earlier....

The race for the Minnesota House and the governor’s office kicked off the moment legislators adjourned at midnight Monday....