It will be the first such "area code overlay" in Minnesota; previous area code changes in the state involved carving out a new geographic region from a previous area code. According to the ...

Geographic differences exist within Minnesota, with higher cancer rates ... cancer incidence in the Southwest and Northwest regions of the state than in the Metro region (42% and 44% higher ...

Minnesota's million-acre (400,000-hectare) Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is the second largest wilderness east of the Rockies and surprisingly easy to access. Bill Forsberg, Jr., owner of ...