Gov. Mark Dayton's ideas to reform and simplify state government include more than 1,000 adjustments to policies already on the books.

Environmental and industry groups clashed at the state Capitol on Tuesday in the first large-scale airing of the emerging policy issues that surround frac sand mining.

State Health Department official John Linc Stine is moving to become deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency serving under new commissioner Paul Aasen.