The proposal includes more than $436 million for projects at the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities campuses.

A document to help local governments regulate silica sand mining was scheduled for a possible vote by the Environmental Quality Board late Wednesday.

Erika Rivers will take over a division with a $103 million annual budget and a staff of 1,200 full- and part-time employees.

Catastrophic population declines among honeybees and other pollinating insects are spurring calls for greater pesticide regulation.

As the Dayton administration and environmental organizations push Congress to permit the emergency closure of the navigational locks on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, two new government studies have detailed the potential costs of action — and inaction.

In hopes of enacting long-awaited changes to Minnesota’s rules governing shoreland development on Minnesota lakes, the Department of Natural Resources is working to remove a number of controversial provisions from the last iteration of its plan.

The exact economic ramifications of the ongoing government shutdown won’t be known for a long time. Too many variables remain unknown in the unprecedented budget impasse.

Republicans who received the veto letters say they strike a tone of anything but compromise.

The state of Minnesota will hold its next state surplus auction Saturday at the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) headquarters in Grand Rapids.