Trisha Ahmed

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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 make it official: They won’t leave Minnesota after all—and their drivers are getting a raise

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

FILE – Taylor Swift performs during “The Eras Tour,” May 5, 2023, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. People buying tickets online for concerts, sporting events and other live events in Minnesota will be guaranteed more transparency and protection under a so-called Taylor Swift bill signed into law Tuesday, May 7, 2024, by Gov. Tim Walz. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

‘Taylor Swift bill’ signed into law in Minnesota to protect online ticket buyers from hidden fees and dodgy resellers

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

Uber and Lyft signage on a vehicle in San Francisco, California

Uber and Lyft won’t leave Minneapolis just yet after vote to push back drive pay rises

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

FILE- Minneapolis city council member Robin Wonsley speaks at a news conference on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at City Hall in Minneapolis. 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/Trisha Ahmed, File)

Uber and Lyft said they’d leave Minneapolis when a wage hike for ride-hailing drivers goes into effect in May. Here’s what happens next

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

Minneapolis

Lyft and Uber are threatening to leave yet another city unless its mayor vetoes a minimum wage law

By Chloe Berger, Trisha Ahmed, and others

Rideshare drivers rally at a staging area

Minneapolis passes $15 minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

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)

Minnesota capital St. Paul makes history as first large U.S. city with all-female council

By Trisha Ahmed, Steve Karnowski, and others

Goodhue Police

Rural Americans shrug as staffing crisis forces some police forces to disband: ‘We pretty much know our neighbors’

By Trisha Ahmed, Jim Salter, and others

FILE – Cars drive past Minneapolis City Hall, June 28, 2023, in Minnesota. Minneapolis City Council members narrowly passed a measure on Thursday, Aug. 17, that would establish a minimum wage for drivers of Uber, Lyft and other ride-share companies in the city. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed, File)

Minneapolis is pushing through a ride-share minimum wage and Lyft claims it will hurt drivers because ‘only the most wealthy could still afford a ride’

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

Minnesota recreational marijuana

Minnesota becomes 23rd state to legalize recreational marijuana—but only tribal nations will start selling it right away

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

FILE – Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura talks to reporters outside the federal building on Oct. 20, 2015, in St. Paul, Minn. Ventura, who supported marijuana legalization when he served from 1999-2003, is expected to attend the signing ceremony of a bill Tuesday, May 30, 2023, to legalize recreational marijuana for people over the age of 21. Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz said in November that Ventura would be invited because Ventura was one of the first governors in the country to support legalization. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP, File)

Minnesota is about to legalize recreational weed and former pro wrestler turned governor Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura will be at the signing ceremony

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

phone screen displaying a statement from the head of security policy at META with a fake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Minnesota lawmakers pass bill to criminalize people who share political and sexual deepfake images

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

Prince Highway

The highway outside Prince’s Paisley Park is getting honored—with a purple sign

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

Denise Lajimodiere

North Dakota just named its first ever Native American poet laureate

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press

Tyler Abayare catches a red horse carp on the Mississippi River at the Montissippi County Park downriver from the Xcel Energy nuclear power plant in Monticello, Minn., on Friday, March 24, 2023. Abayare fishes at this spot everyday and noticed increased activity including people taking water samples around three times a week in the last 60 days. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)

A leak at a nuclear power plant in Minnesota has been repaired but the resulting shutdown killed hundreds of fish in the nearby river

By Trisha Ahmed and The Associated Press