Minnesota News Connection

The arrival of fall has farmers transitioning to the harvest season.

Two to three children out of 1,000 have hearing loss.

If children have been spending a lot of time online this summer, parents need to  re-establish healthy habits. 

New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that nearly 50,000 Americans died by suicide last year.

Summer has come with an unwelcome visitor: periods of thick, smoky air brought on by Canadian wildfires.

States continue to grapple with recent spikes in fatal overdoses tied to opioids. Now, a federal agency has taken what aid groups say is a big step in preventing such deaths.

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show another increase in the nation's maternal mortality rate, and a Minnesota expert says there are several underlying factors. 

Jake Christie for Great Lakes Echo
(Minnesota News Connection) After 10,000 years of domestication, farming and its popularity for use in bread and beer, wheat could have some competition.

Scientists call it Thinopyrum intermedium. Growers call it Kernza.

One of its biggest advantages? It's perennial. Perennial crops require less tilling and fertilizer, and grow back year after year.

This week is National News Literacy Week, and according to a Minnesota expert, trust in the media remains low.

Minnesota has surpassed the goals it set more than a decade ago for renewable-energy standards.