From arts centers to environmentally friendly housing, Hennepin County has handed out millions to encourage building near trains and buses.

Exemptions to Medicaid work requirements will be harder to secure, even for cancer patients, under newly proposed definitions.

Plus: Minneapolis City Council VP takes mental health leave; small town fights for control of its hospital; and storms rage up north.

While the FDA allows more tobacco products, federal and state governments leave users and non-users unprotected from the ...