Plus the U of M caves to Trump, meet Duluth's in-your-face reporter, and we welcome the elk in today's Flyover news roundup.

Ellison urged federal employees in Minnesota to be cautious, saying, "the benefits being offered are not guaranteed." ...

For five years, insulin manufacturer Novo Nordisk agrees to cap out-of-pocket cost of its insulin treatments at $35 per month, and provide free insulin to the neediest Minnesotans.

Democrats are gathering in Maryland on Saturday to elect the next chair of their national party in one of Democrats’ first steps toward recalibrating after November’s disappointing election. State ...

A Maplewood man “engaged in a deceptive pattern” through his five nonprofits and one for-profit business — all of which have government-sounding names — as a means “to sow confusion for his own gain,” ...