James Walsh

Hutchinson woman’s struggle to navigate Minnesota’s Medicaid system highlights long wait for aid

Minnesotans searching for a nursing home or assisted living facility for a loved one have limited data about maltreatment reports.

Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts teamed up with St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists students for a play.

Can you travel to 700 miles from the North Pole in a wheelchair? If you take a cruise ship up along the Norwegian coast, you can.

The “Clean Slate” law that took effect Jan. 1 won’t actually expunge Minnesotans’ records until mid-May.

The state’s massive Medicaid program is at the center of recent fraud prevention discussions. What exists to fight fraud now, and what are lawmakers eyeing?

No one has tracked total numbers of nursing home and assisted-living maltreatment deaths. An advocacy group is starting its own review, finding 26 deaths the past two years.

Como’s Sunken Garden is reopening with new wheelchair ramps just in time for flower shows.

A new law will begin automatically expunging records for nonviolent, low-level offenders.

Officials and advocates admit that the promise of EIDBI and its rapid growth in funding and providers may have fueled suspected fraud faster than they could guard against it.