3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (134+ words) Thousands of Minnesota nursing-home employees are receiving higher minimum wages under standards that took effect September 10. The new minimum is $19 an hour for general nursing-home workers. Certified nursing assistants must receive at least $22.50, trained medication aides must receive $23.50 and licensed…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (152+ words) Minnesota can continue enforcing its new ban on artificial-intelligence tools that generate realistic nude images of identifiable people. Federal Judge Donovan Frank rejected xAI’s request for a preliminary injunction that would have suspended the law while the company’s constitutional challenge…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (99+ words) Voting is underway in the 2026 “Coolest Thing Made in Minnesota” contest. Sixty-four Minnesota-made products are competing in a bracket-style tournament organized by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by B-M-O. Minnesotans can vote through five rounds of head-to-head matchups....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (153+ words) NASA has selected Minnesota State to lead one of seven new aerospace workforce hubs across the country. The Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence will receive one-and-a-half million dollars over three years to expand technical education, apprenticeships and hands-on training…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (81+ words) Minnesota’s workers’ compensation claim rate has fallen to its lowest level on record. A new state report shows the number of paid claims per full-time-equivalent worker dropped 42 percent between 2004 and 2024. Minnesota’s workers’ compensation system cost an estimated 1.7 billion dollars in…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (100+ words) Minnesota health officials are warning consumers not to eat alfalfa sprouts sold under the Calco and Everything Sprouts brands. The sprouts have been linked to a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli and Salmonella. Twenty-three Minnesotans became sick between July…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (98+ words) Ingstad Media Minnesota Job Growth Outpaces Nation Over Past Year Minnesota added more than 44,000 jobs over the past year, growing at a faster rate than the nation as a whole. New state figures show Minnesota employment increased 1.5 percent from July…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (141+ words) Minnesota’s minimum wage is going up at the beginning of next year. The statewide rate will increase to 11-dollars and 87-cents an hour on January 1st, 2027. That is a three-point-nine-nine-percent increase from the current rate of 11-dollars and 41-cents. The 90-day…...