TRISHA AHMED

Uber and Lyft drivers who support a Minneapolis ordinance – which will increase pay to ride-hailing drivers in the city – pose in the Public Service Center in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 11, 2024, after watching a Minneapolis City Council meeting in the building. Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said Monday, May 20, 2024, they will keep operating in Minnesota now that state lawmakers have passed a measure that will increase driver pay, but at a lower rate than approved by Minneapolis officials earlier this year. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Uber and Lyft say they won’t leave Minnesota after all — and drivers are getting a raise

Uber and Lyft announced they will keep operating in Minnesota, now that state lawmakers have passed a measure that will increase driver pay to a level the companies can accept. The new compromise passed the Minnesota House and Senate on Sunday.

Dozens of supporters and opponents of the Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment legislation held signs – green in support, red in opposition – outside the Minnesota House chamber in the State Capitol building in St. Paul, Minn., on Monday, May 13, 2024, ahead of a crucial House floor vote on the legislation. The amendment would guarantee some of the country's most expansive protections of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights if it is approved by both chambers this session and then by voters in two years. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Proposed Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment draws rival crowds to Capitol for crucial votes

Impassioned supporters and opponents of a far-reaching Equal Rights Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution flocked to the State Capitol ahead of crucial votes aimed at putting it on the 2026 ballot.

Pro-Palestinian supporters demanding divestment from companies that profit off the Israel-Hamas war, hold signs outside as the University of Minnesota's Board of Regents meet on Friday, May 10, 2024, in Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota disclosed this week that about $5 million of its $2.27 billion endowment investments — or less than a quarter of 1% — are tied to Israeli companies or U.S. defense contractors. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Pro-Palestinian protesters demand endowment transparency. But it’s proving not to be simple

Some universities are vowing to provide information about how much university endowment money is invested in companies profiting from the Israel-Hamas war amid calls from pro-Palestinian protesters.

FILE - A ride share car displays Lyft and Uber stickers on its front windshield in downtown Los Angeles, Jan. 12, 2016. The ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said they will delay their plans to stop operating in Minneapolis after city officials decided Wednesday, April 11, 2024, to delay an ordinance requiring increased pay rates for drivers. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Uber and Lyft delay their plans to leave Minneapolis after officials push back driver pay plan

The ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said they will delay their planned exit from Minneapolis to July 1 after city officials decided Wednesday to push back the start of an ordinance that increases driver pay.

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2016, file photo, a ride share car displays Lyft and Uber stickers on its front windshield in downtown Los Angeles. The future of Uber and Lyft in Minneapolis has been a source of concern and debate in recent weeks after the City Council voted last month to require that ride-hailing companies pay drivers a higher rate while they are within city limits. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Here’s what we know about Uber and Lyft’s planned exit from Minneapolis in May

The future of Uber and Lyft in Minneapolis has garnered concern and debate in recent weeks after the City Council voted last month to require that ride-hailing companies pay drivers a higher rate while they are within city limits.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007 picture, vehicles are scattered along the broken remains of the Interstate 35W bridge, which stretches between Minneapolis and St. Paul, after it collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour. The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore following a ship strike on March 26, 2024 brought back jarring memories of their own ordeals to people who survived previous bridge collapses. (Stacy Bengs/The Minnesota Daily via AP)

Driving along ... and the roadway vanishes beneath you. What’s it like to survive a bridge collapse?

What’s it like to survive a bridge collapse? Survivors of past bridge failures in Minnesota and Texas tell The Associated Press that the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore brings back harrowing memories of their own ordeals.

FILE - A large crowd marches on Cedar Avenue to downtown during a University of Minnesota student-led protest in Minneapolis, Minn., after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday, March 18, 2024, that a pharmacist who refused to provide emergency contraceptives to a customer because of his personal beliefs engaged in discrimination. (Renée Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP, File)

Minnesota court rules pharmacist discriminated against woman in denying emergency contraception

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a pharmacist engaged in sex-based discrimination when he refused to provide emergency contraception to a woman in 2019.

Ride-hailing drivers celebrate in Minneapolis, Thursday, March 7, 2024, immediately after Minneapolis City Council members voted to pass a measure that would increase wages to drivers of ride-hailing companies, including Uber and Lyft, to an equivalent of more than $15 an hour. Opponents say this may increase costs to customers and increase fears that Uber and Lyft will follow through on their threats to leave the area altogether. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Minneapolis Uber and Lyft drivers due for $15 an hour under council’s plan but mayor vows a veto

The Minneapolis City Council has passed a measure that would increase wages for drivers of ride-hailing services to an equivalent of more than $15 an hour. Opponents say this might increase costs to customers.

Molly Menton, 40, stands next to a "Vote Here" sign outside the Eden Prairie Library polling place in Eden Prairie, Minn., on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Menton, who identifies as a lifelong Democrat in the Twin Cities suburb, said she voted for Joe Biden in the primary election. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Biden beats long-shot challenger Dean Phillips in the congressman’s home state of Minnesota

President Joe Biden has dealt challenger Dean Phillips a Super Tuesday defeat in the Minnesota congressman’s own home state, while former President Donald Trump has beaten Nikki Haley in the state’s Republican primary.

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a press conference about the state's budget and economic forecast at the Department of Revenue in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Feb. 29, 2024 -- Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Erin Campbell, State Economist Laura Kalambokidis and State Budget Director Ahna Minge are photographed seated. Minnesota's budget outlook has improved, they announced moments earlier, with a slightly bigger surplus forecast for the current budget that will give the Legislature a little more breathing room this session. The current two-year budget period, which runs through June 2025, is now expected to end with a surplus of just over $3.7 billion. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Good news on business tax revenues boosts Minnesota’s budget surplus to $3.7B

Minnesota’s budget outlook has improved thanks to higher corporate profits. Budget officials are projecting a slightly bigger surplus that will give the Legislature a little bit more breathing room this session.

Three individuals holding flowers approach one of three memorials outside the Burnsville Police Department and City Hall building in Burnsville, Minn., on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Two police officers and a firefighter who responded to a domestic situation at a suburban Minneapolis home were killed early Sunday. (Kerem Yücel /Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Three slain Minnesota first responders remembered for their commitment to service

Two young police officers and a firefighter-paramedic were killed in a burst of gunfire over the weekend as they responded to a domestic disturbance call in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville. Another officer was injured.

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz serves an apple bar with caramel glaze to Rep. Ethan Cha, of Woodbury, and other state lawmakers in the state capitol building in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Feb. 12, 2024, the first day of Minnesota's legislative session for the year. Walz has a tradition of serving bars to state lawmakers each year on the first day of the legislative session in a gesture of camaraderie and bipartisanship. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Law enforcement in schools dominates 1st day of the Minnesota Legislature’s 2024 session

The Minnesota Legislature has convened for its 2024 session. Lawmakers are fast-tracking legislation to fix a law that limited the powers of police who work in schools to restrain disruptive students.

FILE - A sign hands outside the entrance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Sioux tribe, Sept. 9, 2012. A tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state's reservations. (AP Photo/Kristi Eaton, File)

What to know about South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s banishment from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

For the second time as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem has been banished from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe announced last week that Noem is no longer welcome on tribal lands.

FILE - South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem listens to Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairwoman Janet Alkire, unseen, during a tribal flags ceremony, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D. A South Dakota tribe has banned Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state's reservations. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)

South Dakota tribe bans governor from reservation over US-Mexico border remarks

The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has banned Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation, one of the largest in the U.S.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz stands at a podium in front of a snowplow named "Barbie's Dream Plow" Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, in Richfield, Minn. Barbie's Dream Plow was one of eight winning names in Minnesota's fourth annual Name a Snowplow contest. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Taylor Drift and Clark W. Blizzwald take top honors in Minnesota snowplow-naming contest

Travelers in northwestern Minnesota can shake off their trepidation about hitting the winter roads knowing Taylor Drift is clearing a path ahead of them.

FILE - Marijuana plants grow at a lab in Cottage Grove, Minn., June 17, 2015. The Minnesota governor's office did not have complete information about the woman the governor appointed as director of Minnesota’s new marijuana regulatory agency, leading to her surprising resignation after media reports about her financial problems and other issues, according to an audit released Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Minnesota governor appointed 1st cannabis chief with incomplete background information, audit says

An audit finds that the Minnesota governor’s office did not have complete information about the woman appointed as director of Minnesota’s new marijuana regulatory agency in September.

Family and activists for Ricky Cobb II, who was fatally shot by a Minnesota state trooper in a July 2023 traffic stop, stand with a sign that shows photos of Cobb and says "Justice for Ricky Cobb II" inside Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minn., on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. They said at a news conference Thursday that justice for the 33-year-old Black man is within reach now that the state trooper has been charged with murder. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Family of Ricky Cobb II says justice is within reach following Minnesota trooper’s murder charge

Family, lawyers and activists for Ricky Cobb II say justice is within reach now that the Minnesota trooper who fatally shot him last year has been charged with murder.

FILE - Family members of Ricky Cobb II, a Black man who was shot and killed by a Minnesota State Patrol trooper, speak at a news conference outside Hennepin County Government Center, Aug. 2, 2023, in Minneapolis. On Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, prosecutors charged Minnesota State Patrol Trooper Ryan Londregan with murder and two other counts in the shooting death of Cobb during a stop in July 2023. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed, File)

Minnesota trooper is charged with murder in shooting of motorist Ricky Cobb II during a traffic stop

A Minnesota state trooper has been charged with murder in the shooting of motorist Ricky Cobb II after he failed to get out of his car during a July traffic stop.

Claire Wilson, executive director of The Loppet Foundation, a non-profit that promotes winter recreation, demonstrates a wool base layer on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minn. As a bout of bitter and deadly cold sweeps the U.S., millions of Americans are being told to dress in layers if they must go outside. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

How to stay warm in layered clothing and avoid frostbite this winter

As a bout of bitter and deadly cold sweeps the U.S., millions of Americans are being told to dress in layers if they must go outside. In places that rarely experience bone-chilling temperatures, that advice can be confounding.

Judge Margaret Chutich introduces herself after being appointed by Gov. Mark Dayton, left, during a news conference, Jan. 22, 2016, at the Veterans Services Building in St. Paul, Minn. Chutich announced her retirement Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz said in a Tuesday statement that Chutich has been "a trailblazer as Minnesota’s first openly gay justice." (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)

Another Minnesota Supreme Court Justice announces retirement

Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Margaret Chutich has announced she will retire on July 31. Chutich is the first openly gay justice on the court. She was appointed by a Democratic governor and joined the state’s Supreme Court in 2016.

FILE - Vehicles are seen in a parking lot outside of Perry High School following a shooting at the school, Jan. 5, 2024, in Perry, Iowa. An Iowa principal who put himself in harm’s way to protect students during a school shooting earlier this month died Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, a funeral home confirmed. Caldwell Parrish Funeral Home & Crematory confirmed the death of Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger after the family announced it on a GoFundMe page. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, file)

Iowa principal who risked his life to protect students during a high school shooting has died

An Iowa principal who put himself in harm’s way to protect students during a school shooting earlier this month has died.

St. Paul City Council members, from left, Mitra Jalali, Anika Bowie, Rebecca Noecker, Saura Jost, HwaJeong Kim, Nelsie Yang and Chenique Johnson are introduced at the start of the inauguration ceremony for St. Paul City Council members in St. Paul, Minn. on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The youngest and most diverse city council in the history of Minnesota's capital city was sworn into office Tuesday, officially elevating the first all-female St. Paul City Council into public service at City Hall. (John Autey /Pioneer Press via AP)

St. Paul makes history with all-female city council, a rarity among large US cities

St. Paul, Minnesota, has an all-woman city council for the first time in its history — and experts say it may be the largest U.S. city to ever have an all-woman council. All seven of St.

Police and the BCA at the scene where two people were shot and killed Monday night at a Super 8 hotel in Cloquet, Minn., on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)

Small-town Minnesota hotel shooting kills clerk and 2 possible guests, including suspect, police say

Authorities say a shooting at a small-town Minnesota hotel has killed an employee and two possible guests. Cloquet police Chief Derek Randall spoke about the shooting at a news conference Tuesday.

In a photo provided by the Camden County Sheriff's Office, a diver searches the pond where a submerged vehicle was found south of Camdenton, Mo., city limits on Dec. 17, 2023. Camden County deputies are once again investigating the disappearance of Donnie Erwin after dredging up his algae-encrusted vehicle in a tiny roadside drainage pond in December - almost exactly a decade after the 59-year-old went missing. (Detective Sgt Jeremiah Burnett/Camden County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Amateur Missouri investigator, YouTube creator helps break decade-old missing person cold case

A decade-old cold case of a veteran who went missing without a trace in rural Missouri has a new start after an amateur sleuth and YouTube creator found the man’s car.

In this photo provided by Nebraska State Patrol, two tractor-trailers lose control on Christmas Day on Interstate 80 in Nebraska as a winter storm pummels part of the Midwest, on Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. Forecasters are predicting that heavy snow and blizzard conditions will continue through early Wednesday across part of the north-central U.S. (Nebraska State Patrol via AP)

Ice storms and blizzards pummel the central US a day after Christmas

A winter storm is pummeling much of the central United States a day after Christmas. An ice storm in North Dakota is sealing windows shut, while blizzard conditions in Denver have led to over 500 delays and 23 cancellations on Tuesday.

FILE - A large crowd marches on Cedar Avenue to downtown during a University of Minnesota student led protest in Minneapolis, Minn., after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade on June 24, 2022. Attorneys for a woman who was denied emergency contraception in 2019 told the Minnesota Court of Appeals the pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription discriminated against her on the basis of her sex. But an attorney for the central Minnesota pharmacist said Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023, his refusal to provide the drug due to his religious beliefs was not a violation of state and federal law. A jury ruled last year that the pharmacist did not discriminate against the woman. The panel of three judges has 90 days to rule on the appeal. (Renée Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)

Pharmacist refused emergency contraception prescription. Court to decide if that was discrimination

Attorneys for a woman who was denied emergency contraception in 2019 told the Minnesota Court of Appeals the pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription discriminated against her on the basis of her sex.

FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Derek Chauvin’s family has received no updates after prison stabbing, attorney says

An attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd says his family has been kept in the dark by federal prison officials after he was stabbed in prison.

FILE - After signing a declaration of candidacy to run for president and walking out of the New Hampshire Statehouse, Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips addresses the crowd, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, in Concord, Minn. Phillips, who is challenging Joe Biden in the primary, announced Friday, Nov. 24, he will not seek reelection to Congress in 2024. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP, File)

Rep. Dean Phillips, a Democrat running for president, says he won’t run for re-election to Congress

Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips, who is running for president and challenging Joe Biden in the primary, has announced that he will not seek reelection to Congress in 2024.

FILE - Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out stands outside the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Rapid City, S.D. on Feb. 8, 2023. Star Comes Out said on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, that he will declare a state of emergency on the tribe's Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota because of rampant crime that he said hasn’t been curbed due to the U.S. government’s inadequate funding for law enforcement on the reservation.(Kalle Benallie/Indian Country Today via AP, File)

South Dakota tribe to declare state of emergency due to rampant crime on reservation

Gun violence, drug offenses and rapes have become increasingly common on the Pine Ridge reservation. Only 33 officers and eight criminal investigators are responsible for more than 100,000 emergency calls each year across the 5,400-square-mile (14,000-square-kilometer) reservation, tribal officials

FILE - Sun shines on South Dakota Capitol, Jan. 12, 2021, in Pierre, S.D. The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota announced Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, that it is suing South Dakota over a state law that restricts content on vanity plates. (Erin Bormett/The Argus Leader via AP, File)

ACLU sues South Dakota over its vanity plate restrictions

The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota is suing the state of South Dakota over a law that restricts content on vanity plates.