Fifty-five people will lose their jobs at the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center because of a budget shortfall.

Ask St. Paul writer Daniel Gabriel where he got the inspiration for his collection of stories about a pub in Wales, and he'll tell you he lived the life.

Midday re-broadcasts a special report on the economic slowdown in Minnesota by Minnesota Public Radio reporter Annie Baxter and excerpts from a recent UBS Forum discussion with some of MPR's "economic lookouts," who offered a first-hand perspective of the effects

Minnesota's utilities face a daunting task: the state has told them to cut their sales of electricity and natural gas by 1.5 percent a year.

A plan to make the Twin Cities a center for the emerging bio-science industry is faltering.

State officials said the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 5.3 percent from 5.4 percent in May.

Millions of dollars are being spent to help some north Minneapolis neighborhoods recover from the mortgage foreclosure crisis.