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A Somali arts group hired lobbyists this year and requested $4.35 million in taxpayer funds to prevent Somali youth from being targeted by terrorist recruiters. They were rewarded $250,000 in legacy funds in the end and the organization's arts mission and past funding levels raise questions about how they money will be used.

A $100 million plan to turn 26 buildings at historic Ft. Snelling into 190-government-subsidized apartment units was announced this week by Lt. Governor Tina Flint Smith. The project will get the go-ahead from the state's executive council with no input from the legislature. The company making the proposal, Dominium, employs Governor Mark Dayton's senior-level adviser Kathy Tunheim's PR firm. Alpha News takes a closer look at the project.

Alpha News asks a number of locals and Judge Jim Gray their thoughts on the Commission on Presidential Debates and third parties.

Large Minnesota cities and counties that take Community Development Block Grants from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will be required to assess their zoning and land use decisions to determine their impact on fair housing choice. How will it affect where you live?

Protesters gathered outside the Southdale Gardens Condominiums to express their anger over a military mom being told to take her American flag down....

Last year, twenty-four different corrections facilities across Minnesota applied for payments from the federal government's State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) which reimburses states to incarcerate illegal immigrants. Minnesota's liberal immigration policies in the state's largest cities and counties may mean losing these federal dollars as Congress seeks to cut off funding from sanctuary cities.

Alpha News investigates the responses in Minnesota to the leaked Planned Parenthood video....

Now that the United States presidential campaign has turned into twenty-four month spectacle, candidates work to gain early support from influential names in the political realm. Here's a look a who's been supporting whom here in Minnesota:

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted Friday to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco exclusively to traditional tobacco stores – leaving hundreds of convenience stores and corner markets in Minneapolis to drop these products.

The hot issue of illegal immigration and sanctuary-cities is back on the front pages. A young woman named Katie Steinle was shot to death by a convicted felon and illegal immigrant in the sanctuary-city of San Francisco two weeks ago. In April, Earl Arthur Olander was found bound and beaten to death in his rural San Francisco Township home. WCCO reported last week on the immigration status of two men who were arrested for the brutal murder of the 90-year old Minnesota man. One of the men lived in the sanctuary-city of St. Paul and had a criminal record.