Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map.

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

MARSHALL — Lyon County is one of several southwest Minnesota counties that has been called an immigration “sanctuary county” by outside groups. But county officials say they don’t know how they got ...

MARSHALL — Lyon County is one of several southwest Minnesota counties that has been called an immigration “sanctuary county” by outside groups. But county officials say they don’t know how they got ...

The 13 states listed by the Center for Immigration Studies are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and ...

For nearly 30 years, leaders in southwest Minnesota have collaborated to provide a consistent and informed approval process for wind and solar farms, while landing millions of dollars in tax revenue ...

The funds allocated by the governor's emergency assistance authorization will go toward six of the state's hardest-hit ...

The bill could still lead to a patchwork of different regulations across county lines, which was a hang-up in last year’s ...

More than one-fifth of Minnesota's federal employees work in Hennepin County. Much of the rest of the federal workforce in Minnesota works in the outlying counties of the Minneapolis/St. Paul ...