water quality

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota landowners have some new options for complying with the state's buffer strips law.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton says he won't slow down his marquee legislation to improve Minnesota's water quality.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota has secured $350 million in federal funding for a voluntary program to pay farmers to protect and improve water quality in southern and western Minnesota

Hopkins, MN (Learfield)  --  Officials in Hopkins are telling residents the city's drinking water is safe, despite a cluster of five confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease. The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating the cases reported between August 4th and September 1st...

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton is asking Minnesotans to take a Water Stewardship Pledge, and to rethink how water affects their daily lives and how they use it.

ARDEN HILLS, Minn. (AP) — The state of Minnesota and Land O'Lakes have formed a partnership to improve water quality in farm country.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A measure scaling back Minnesota's buffer-strip law passed last year is headed to the governor's desk.

EDGERTON, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton and key cabinet members visit Edgerton on Wednesday to discuss water quality challenges facing southwestern Minnesota.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota health officials are reviewing their water quality testing after discovering they evaluated samples at temperatures too hot to detect some chemical contaminants.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton is telling environmental officials to back off private ditches as they start enforcing a new law to boost water quality.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton is asking lawmakers to pony up for water quality and infrastructure improvements.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An appeals court has upheld new water quality standards which are aimed at controlling algae in Minnesota's rivers and streams.

St. Paul, MN  (KROC-AM News) - The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued a new report that indicates a variety of pollutants have left many bodies of water in the state inadequate for human consumption and aquatic life.