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A bill that aims to make the internet safer for kids got a hearing Wednesday in the legislature. The Minnesota Kids Code (HF 2257/SF 2810) was up for discussion last year and is now getting a second pass after being amended.

How can families keep their children safe from danger when online? There's several steps parents can take to ensure their kids aren't harmed.

Mark Zuckerberg apologized for all of the problems that his Meta/Facebook empire has caused people, sort of. The apology, as it was, came during testimony the Facebook founder gave before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. But the most interesting part of the day’s events came before he even testified. Mark Zuckerberg found himself surrounded by […]

The state health department says in 2019, there were 296 fentanyl-involved overdose deaths. Preliminary figures from 2022 show that number has risen to 947.

The Devin J. Norring Foundation, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, in collaboration with Dakota County Drug Task Force, Hastings Police Department, Dale Riley and Family, Victims of Illicit Drugs (V.O.I.D.), and

Social media has been a gateway for drug traffickers, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

More Minnesotans died of opioid overdoses than car crashes in 2021.

A person found with 100 or more pills would be charged with first-degree possession, 50 or more would be a second-degree charge and 25 a third-degree charge. 

As the threat of the incredibly lethal opioid fentanyl continues to plague communities across the country, a national grassroots movement, the “One Pill Can Kill” campaign, has been working desperately

A Hastings couple says there is a growing fentanyl crisis in their community after the loss of their son.