Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota announced Thursday she will not run for reelection in 2026. CBS News political reporter Hunter Woodall joins "America Decides" to discuss what Smith's ...

Nowadays, a vast network of highways ties the southwest suburbs to the rest of the world. However, there was a time when the Minnesota River was the region’s lifeline. Steamboats ferried passengers up ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

During the last week of March, the McLeod County Commissioners brought key information to constituents on the topics of ...

Did you know McLeod County has its own database and interactive maps based on aerial images that any resident can access from home? Christy Christensen, the county’s geographic information ...

A beating pig heart on Jan. 21, 2025, at the University of Minnesota's Visible Heart Lab in Minneapolis. At the U's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a ...

Google said the name changes, which also includes using Mount McKinley, will happen when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated.

The data by Geowealth US also says that the richest and poorest Minnesota communities are all concentrated in the Twin Cities ...

Then, the state of Minnesota sent the request to the Board on Geographic Names, which made it official for ... Names could change the name to Gulf of America on official U.S. maps, but there is no ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

since Mr. Trump's position gives him authority to alter geographical names of places inside the country. The Gulf of Mexico first appeared on a world map roughly 400 years ago, as Mexico's ...