Negotiations between the Minnesota Nurses Association and the city鈥檚 health care systems are ongoing. Contracts with Essentia and Aspirus St. Luke鈥檚 are set to expire June 30.
Employees at the freshwater lab were told they could leave their jobs or apply for a limited number of new jobs elsewhere in the EPA, and funding for an estimated 25 early-career researchers ended.
The union's proposed three-year contract requests that hospitals prioritize nurses' physical and mental health and improve staffing levels to ensure better patient care and safer workplaces.
The NCT, created in 1980, is the longest National Scenic Trail in the U.S., and it is still unfinished. Cavour Johnson, 78, has been working to change that.
A former Lake Superior College professor is suing the college and Gov. Tim Walz after being dismissed for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing his constitutional rights were violated.
The bacterial insecticide 鈥� nontoxic to people, animals and bees 鈥� can only be applied during a short period in the spring, at a certain moment in an insect's lifespan. The money didn't come in time.
The 45-year-old Minnesota man also engaged in "sexually charged chats with children" as young as 10, a prosecutor said. Kramer's attorney said the defendant isn't sexually attracted to minors.
