The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are building them from hemp
The Indigenous nation will soon have the only facility to create hempcrete in the country.
Greater Minnesota
A collection of news and stories from around the state of Minnesota.
‘Do your job.’ How the railroad industry intimidates employees into putting speed before safety
As powerful railroad companies race to maximize profits through efficiency, safety is left behind.
Wastewater treatment plays large role in spread of Minnesota’s PFAS contamination, report finds
Researchers found PFAS in the Mississippi River, as well as the Sauk River, Clearwater River and Johnson Creek in central Minnesota.
Could a solution to provide legal care in Alaska work in rural Minnesota?
Through a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers will expand Alaska’s ‘community justice worker’ model, allowing non-attorneys to represent people.
Providing hope: National grant brings addiction prevention programs to Brainerd Lakes schools
Advocates say this level of substance use prevention support is needed by young people in Greater Minnesota. While teens in rural communities struggle with the impact of substance use in levels similar to those in the Twin Cities, support programs in the region are few and far between.
Biden touts rural achievements as part of ‘barnstorming’ tour
President Biden and his cabinet have ‘taken to the country roads’ to show that rural investments are an administrative priority. In 2024, rural votes will also be a priority.
How emerging tech could change the game for nuclear power forever
Minnesota has 17 years to decarbonize its power grid following a mandate passed this year, but all new nuclear technologies are off the table unless a 30-year moratorium can be amended or overturned.
Is two too many? Second company seeks state financial assistance to grow marijuana on Minnesota’s Iron Range
M.N. Technology of Cohasset has submitted a pre-application for financing from the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation agency, weeks after the state pledged to help a Missouri-based company.
Proposed hubs hope to show hydrogen energy economy is more than just hype
Heartland Hub partnership among Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin is one of seven winners in national competition for $7 billion from federal infrastructure law.
Minnesota DNR gives Twin Metals green light for exploratory drilling near Boundary Waters
With its plan to explore for nickel, cobalt and other minerals on non-federal land, Twin Metals has made an end run of a 20-year federal moratorium that dashed its efforts to mine in the Superior National Forest, whose watershed feeds into the Boundary Waters.
A utility, a tribe, a professor, and Miss America? 4 voices in today’s nuclear power debate as Minnesota faces 2040 carbon-free deadline
Should Minnesota and other states embrace nuclear power as they look to produce electricity from carbon-free sources?
DEED and weed: Loan to Missouri cannabis company is not a done deal, says one of state agencies overseeing the plan
The Department of Employment and Economic Development, which administers a fund meant to promote job creation in the Iron Range, said it is not bound by an endorsement of the project by the Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation board.
Minnesota legalized marijuana. Now it’s giving a Missouri-based company up to $15 million in forgivable loans to grow it on the Iron Range
Legalization advocates ask whether the state financing gives large, out-of-state cannabis businesses a taxpayer-funded advantage over local companies.
Minnesota makes plan to reduce disparities in cardiovascular health and diabetes statewide
From 2018-2021, Black adults ages 35-64, died from heart disease at approximately two times the rate of Minnesotans overall.
At Gustavus Adolphus Nobel conference, cricket cookies and other insect inspiration
Experts in insect science spoke in St. Peter this week about how eating insects could help solve climate change and the global food crisis.
Across the Midwest, communities grapple with the idea of a future without coal
The fossil fuel defined economies and local traditions. What happens when it goes away?
These 2 countries embraced nuclear power. Here’s what they can teach Minnesota
Minnesota and the U.S. as a whole could learn from Canada and other countries that have leaned into nuclear power in the transition away from fossil fuels.
Nuclear at a Crossroads: Does nuclear power stand a chance in Minnesota amid a moratorium and carbon-free mandate?
By 2040, all of the state’s power must come from carbon-free sources. Solar, hydro, and wind generation are being deployed at break-neck speed, but there’s one black sheep in the carbon-free family: nuclear power.
New DEED commissioner on Greater Minnesota’s economy and implementing ‘massive’ new spending
MinnPost interviewed Matt Varilek on Monday about his views on the economy in Greater Minnesota, child care, broadband, South Dakota, fraud in grant programs and more.
