The two-term board member will start Thursday.

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS STORY IS PART OF A SIX-PART SERIES COVERING BILLS THAT HAVE PREVIOUSLY FAILED IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE BUT ARE STILL REINTRODUCED YEAR AFTER YEAR.

Problems involving parolees from California's overcrowded prison system have long beset state officials.

100 former service members were hired nationally as outreach specialists.

The National Weather Service lowered its crest forecast for Wahpeton and its cross-river neighbor, Breckenridge, Minn., downward to 18 feet by Wednesday morning, well below the tops of their dikes.

Detectives have issued a warrant for the arrest of the suspect.

City officials planned to fill more than 1 million sandbags, but with more rain forecast they increased the need to nearly 2 million sandbags.

The University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus would go unaffected because it doesn’t use state money for athletic scholarships.

The plane was likely designed to carry a total of 11 people, including two pilots.

One mountainous area might get as much as 40 inches of snow.