Gasoline prices are climbing. The war in Iran has created instability in oil markets and driven fuel prices up across the country. ​In Minnesota, gas prices have jumped roughly 50 cents in the last month according to AAA, and analysts warn continued instability in shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz could push them even higher in the weeks ahead.

For families ...

Nathan Hansen, a right-wing attorney and influential X user who has amplified racist conspiracies and fringe legal theories, will make decisions on which immigrants will be deported in his new job as ...

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig made an unannounced visit on Thursday to the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, the hub of the Trump administration’s deportation operations in Minnesota. Thousands of immigrants have passed through Whipple on the way to jails and detention facilities across the country.

Craig, a Democrat representing the south metro, said she came to verify t...

I’ve noticed this week that the volunteers that had been greeting us at the door of my 4-year-old’s child care center aren’t there anymore. 

I take it as another small sign of normalcy, which many Minnesotans rightly crave after months of federal quasi-occupation. “Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget,” wrote John Keats. 

For so many Minnesotans, ...

On the morning of Feb. 13, a 52-year-old man from Ecuador was in a car with four people when the driver noticed they were being followed by a white van and pulled over into an elementary school parking lot, according to a petition filed to challenge the 52-year-old’s immigration detention.

A plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent then approached the car...