Good news for some states in August. While California showed a rise in unemployment to 12.2%, Wisconsin's unemployment rate continued to fall in August. Minnesota's unemployment similarly fell.

In Northeastern Minnesota there’s a 56-mile paved scenic byway that meanders through the Superior National Forest on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. This road less traveled is the Gunflint Trail and on a special weekend each September everyone is invited to have a taste of the Gunflint Trail.

The P.G.A. Championship returns to Minnesota this week, with the Hazeltine National Country Club in Chaska, outside Minneapolis, playing host to the tournament, which runs from August 13th-15th.

Democrat Al Franken won a unanimous ruling from the Minnesota state Supreme Court on Tuesday. The court ruled that Franken should be certified the winner of Minnesota's hotly contested Senate race. Given that, Republican Norm Coleman conceded, ending a nearly eight-month recount and court fight.

Norm Coleman's attempt to use the court system to reverse the results of the Minnesota Senate election, which shows Al Franken with a narrow lead after the mandatory recount, has been rejected by a three-judge panel.

The Minnesota canvassing board has certified Al Franken as the winner of November's U.S. Senate election in the great state of Minnesota. Nonetheless, despite having virtually no chance of victory, Norm Coleman is vowing to file suit in an attempt to drag out the process of Senator-elect Franken's victory.

Seven weeks after the 2008 Election Day, and guess what? We still don't have a race decided: the Minnesota Senate Race between Al Franken and incumbent Norm Coleman. But on Friday, for the first time, Franken moved ahead in the race.

The latest Minnesota employment report is starting to look pretty bleak as the MN unemployment reaches the highest point since 1983.

Pope Benedict XVI has been urged to act on autism after Adam Race, a 13 year old boy with severe autism was banned from the Roman Catholic Church of St.Joseph in Bertha, Minnesota by his priest Fr.Daniel Walz. According to court documents, Fr. Daniel Walz took out a temporary restraining order on the boy with autism and his mother Carol Race on the grounds of disruptive behaviour.' They were threatened with arrest by the Sheriff of Todd County if they entered the church for Mass.

Autism Campaigners have urged Pope Benedict XVI to provide guidelines to the Roman Catholic Church on how to deal with children and adults with autism and Asperger's syndrome in the light of the banning of a 13 year old boy with autism, Adam Race from the Church of St.Joseph in Bertha, Minnesota.

A half-mile down in an old iron ore mine in Minnesota, incredibly sensitive detectors have been waiting for a particle of dark matter, an invisible substance that may form the skeleton of galaxies, to make itself known.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has issued an Air Pollution Health Advisory through Friday due to elevated levels of fine airborne particulates for most of Minnesota, with the worst air quality occurring in the Twin Cities and Rochester. Stagnant winds overnight are helping trap fine particles and allowing them to build.