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On the 50th anniversary of Milda McQuillan's disappearance, her granddaughters visit the area where she was last seen in the ...
In 2023, the Supreme Court found the government of Hennepin County, Minnesota, was unfairly pocketing proceeds from homes and businesses sold after years of property tax delinquency.
Cook County paused delinquent property tax sales until March. The decision follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that deemed equity theft unconstitutional.
The delinquent tax sales that the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in 2023 will shut down in Cook County for seven months to give state legislators more time to change state law ...
Discusses the first Minnesota Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA) opinion in Cook v. Trimble, 2025 WL 1287932 (Minn.App., May 5, 2025), ...
Other major wildfires in Minnesota’s past were even bigger. The Great Hinckley fire of 1894 burned 350,000 acres and killed 418. The Cloquet-Moose Lake fires in 1918 burned 250,000 acres killed 453.
Spruce budworm outbreaks have been reported in Lake County, Cook County and St. Louis County. The insects infected more than 700,000 acres of forest last year, marking the largest impact recorded ...
The Cook County Department of Transportation released its 2025 highway construction project map, showing all construction projects underway or scheduled to start this year in the Cook County suburbs.
The high school boys volleyball season starts this week. Here’s a look at what to expect in Cook County and Lake County. ANTIOCH The Seqouits are led by senior all-Northern Lake County Confere ...
Cook County homeowners who lose their properties because of unpaid property taxes would be in line for a share of the resale price under a proposed change to state law to prevent what critics call ...
Attorneys are ratcheting up their attack on Cook County’s tax sale system, which is in a precarious spot as several states have changed their laws on tax sales in the wake of a 2023 U.S. Supreme ...