Prairie Island is one of two nuclear power plants in Minnesota. It’s located along the Mississippi River near the Wisconsin border. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video ...

Amazon’s proposed data center in Minnesota would need nearly as much power as Xcel’s large Monticello nuclear plant now produces. Top House and Senate Democrats said support from the Prairie Island ...

Republicans focus in on ways to alleviate pressures of Democrats' 2023 “Carbon Free by 2040” bill, while testimony from the ...

Minnesota’s 31-year-old ban on new nuclear power plants is facing another challenge from utility companies and supporters of nuclear power, who say the technology is necessary to meet the state’s ...

In 1994, the Minnesota Legislature amended a state statute to prohibit any new construction of a nuclear power plant. A certificate of need is prohibited from being issued to build any new nuclear ...

WELCH, Minn. — Red Wing police officers say four to five drones were spotted flying around a nuclear plant on Wednesday. According to a press release from the Red Wing Police Department ...

It allows for a baseload source — a large amount of power can be called on around the clock — and is carbon-free. The utility runs two nuclear plants in Minnesota. But despite its benefits ...

Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant pictured in 2017. GLEN STUBBE • [email protected] (Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...