Four more deaths have been linked to the flu in Minnesota, but the number of schools reporting outbreaks dropped considerably in the past week, health officials said Wednesday.

State officials in Iowa have confirmed a case of H1N1 in a cat, the first known instance of a cat contracting the virus from people.

Two environmental organizations are kicking off an effort Wednesday to bring plastic bag recycling and recycling receptacles for cans and bottles to grocery stores in Duluth.

Back-to-back meetings will provideWisconsin and Minnesota residents with an update on the long-planned St. Croix River bridge project.

Minnesota counties are ironing out the final details on public vaccination clinics for kids that could begin as early as Nov. 16. The doses will only be available to children aged 9 and under.

The University of Minnesota will offer H1N1 vaccine to some students and staff in so-called "high priority" groups Wednesday and Thursday.

Climate experts organized by the Army Corpsof Engineers see no end to a wet cycle in the Red River Valley.

A sewage treatment plant in a small northern Minnesota town is failing and threatens to dump thousands of gallons of raw sewage into Lake of the Woods.

A pharmacy lab in Minnesota is helping address the shortage of H1N1 medicine for children, by making kid-sized doses of Tamiflu from adult-sized capsules. MPR's Lorna Benson visited the lab to see how it's done.

A Minnesota congressman is concerned about reports that detainees at Guantanamo Bay will soon get the H1N1 flu vaccine.

A rare tiger cub born at the SiouxFalls zoo now weighs 30 pounds and is starting to get acquaintedwith other big cats.

Scientist Tim Flannery talks about what new data says about the warming climate. He maintains there are practical ways to address climate change, despite the huge problem he sees looming. He talked with Kerri Miller before an audience at the

A new report released Monday ranks Minnesota tops in the nation for civic involvement.

The two largest medical providers in the Dakotas have completed a merger.

The Minnesota Department of NaturalResources is accepting applications through the end of businessMonday for a new $3.7 million conservation grant program.

Lake Forest-based MicroMedia Filtration, a developer of wastewater treatment systems for municipalities, said today that it has raised a Series A funding. The funding came from Costa Mesa-based SAIL Venture Partners. Amount of the equity funding was not disclosed, however,

Los Angeles-based Break Media, an online site which caters to males, announced today that it has signed a deal with liquor maker Southern Comfort to develop a branded content project, "Social Sportz Net". Break said the series of webisodes was

Orange-based M86 Security, a developer of web security tools, said today that it has acquired Finjan, a developer of secure Web gateways. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Finjan is based in San Jose, with operations in Netanya,

Irvine-based Accenx Technologies, a provider of health information exchange software, has been acquired by Initiate Systems, a data management firm based in Chicago. Financial terms of the deal were not released. According to Initiate, the buy expands the breadth and

A new endowed fellowship fund, which will be awarded to a graduate MBA student at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine, has been established to honor the Tech Coast Angels' Luis Villalobos. According to the