The air quality in Minneapolis is among the worst in the world. Here’s how to avoid exposure to the fine particles that can damage your health.

Heavy smoke from several large wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota is engulfing large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. this week.

According to Swiss air quality company IQAir, as of 9 a.m. Chicago was the fourth most-polluted major city in the world, behind Detroit, Toronto and Minneapolis.

Dense smoke from northern wildfires has descended on the Twin Cities, smudging the skies and causing hazardous air quality. Air quality warnings were upgraded for the metro area and a large swath of the state to the highest level on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s six-level warning system,

Another hot day is ahead Wednesday as the heat wave continues and wildfire smoke affects air quality across parts of Minnesota.

Minnesota Twins center fielder Byron Buxton is finally doing what fans envisioned when he was selected second overall in the 2012 MLB Draft. Throughout the first nine seasons of his career, Buxton played in 100 or more games just one time.

Every time I mention that Minnesota’s white population peaked last decade, as I did in a column last week about President Donald Trump’s latest bashing of Somalis in Minnesota, a reader or two will email me to say I’m wrong.

Por DORANY PINEDA y JACQUELINE GANUNSe prevé que el denso humo de varios grandes incendios forestales que arden en Canadá y Minnesota cubra amplias zonas de las regiones centro-norte y noreste de Estados Unidos esta semana,

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is extending its pause on accepting new providers for 12 high-risk Medicaid programs as it continues its efforts to combat fraud.

Former Minnesota Republican Gov. Arne Carlson is backing Democrat Jake Johnson in his bid to unseat GOP Rep. Brad Finstad in southern Minnesota’s First District. Carlson’s endorsement comes as national Democrats are paying close attention to Johnson’s congressional race and see a chance to oust the three-term Republican congressman come November.