Andy Monserud

A sugar beet truck driver succeeded in his effort to have Minnesota recognize a tort for negligent selection of independent contractors, but didn't live to see it.

There’s a whole lot of science to be done involving water and a conference in Saint Paul this week brought together those working in the field and discussions on some big changes ahead.

Microplastics are endemic in the world's oceans, and not going anywhere. In a presentation at a recent water science conference, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discussed efforts to see just how bad the problem is, and where.

The New York Court of Appeals found that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision didn’t make broadly-applied rules unconstitutional violations of religious freedom, but Albany’s Catholic diocese vowed to change that.

The "messy" case of a man who drew a machete against knife-wielding assailants is testing the duty to retreat Minnesota requires for self-defense defenses.

A group of Iowa student athletes say state law enforcement agents misused geolocation data to ding them for underaged gambling.

Minnesota legalized cannabis in 2023, and vote shares for its two legalization-focused third parties peaked in 2018. Democrats now argue that the bigger party has failed to meet state requirements for major-party status.

In 2023, Minnesota restored the vote to 55,000 people who had served sentences for felony convictions. A group is asking the state Supreme Court to consider their case seeking to reverse that law.

Minnesota revised its water quality standards in 2021, replacing many quantitative rules with more flexible narrative ones. A federal judge declined to overturn those new standards following a lawsuit from several of the state’s Native American tribes.

Small-town Minnesotan Andrea Anderson’s case against her local pharmacy and its lead pharmacist went poorly at trial, but the Minnesota Court of Appeals reinstated some of her claims.