Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen told an audience in Willmar that agriculture continues to benefit from bipartisan support in Legislature.
Harsono is facing potential deportation despite having a valid F-1 visa. He also had pending applications for permanent residency based on his marriage to a U.S. citizen.
Many counties in west central, southwest and northern Minnesota are under an increased fire danger warning due to warm weather and high winds, according to the National Weather Service.
One person is reported to have died and another victim was injured by a man fleeing law enforcement from Minneapolis and leading a high-speed chase all the way to Willmar. The suspect is in custody.
Dave Coahran, fisheries supervisor with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Spicer, has raised the possibility of adding muskie to a lake in Kandiyohi County, but it's currently only a talking point.
Christopher Flatten, 39, was injured in a July 18 crash. He is also the former Willmar police officer named in an unrelated civil suit alleging a man was arrested for "walking while Black."
A lawsuit alleges that a Willmar police officer unlawfully arrested Derrick Gilbert, 39, on another Black man's warrant, and then, after discovering the mistake, arrested Gilbert for obstruction
