Old Glory is the only flag flying outside Detroit Lakes City Hall. You won’t see the Minnesota state flag — the retired one ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota will mark its Statehood Day on Saturday by changing its look — namely, the flag that’s been flying outside buildings and the seal that’s adorned podiums and paperwork ...

Minnesota’s old flag resembles that of more than 20 states and has been described by critics as a “state seal on a bedsheet.” Flag scholars and enthusiasts, sometimes known as vexillologists ...

A Minnesota commission tasked with redesigning the state's flag and seal announced its selection for the updated state flag on Tuesday. The State Emblems Redesign Commission voted 11-1 to approve ...

The seal was a key feature of the old flag, hence the pressure for changing both. Unless the Legislature votes to reject the new emblems, which seems unlikely, they will become official May 11.

The old seal, which has been in use since 1861, was criticized for its imagery of a White settler plowing the land as a Native American man on horseback rode off in the distance.

Minnesota’s current flag dates from 1957, an update from the 1893 original. It includes the current state seal, slightly tweaked from the 1858 original, which depicts a Native American riding ...

The seal was a key feature of the old flag, hence the pressure for changing both. Unless the Legislature votes to reject the new emblems, which seems unlikely, they will become official May 11.

ST PAUL, Minn. — Love it, hate it or yawn at it, Minnesota is set to get a new state flag this spring that echoes its motto of being the North Star State, replacing an old flag that brought up ...