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Overview
The Star Tribune in Minneapolis, now the Minnesota Star Tribune, is the state's largest newspaper and the main paper for the Capitol and the Hennepin County courts, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press covers the capital city and the east metro. The Duluth News Tribune, the Rochester Post Bulletin, the St. Cloud Times, the Mankato Free Press, the Fargo Forum for the Moorhead side of the border, the Winona Daily News and the Brainerd Dispatch cover their regions, and MinnPost and the Minnesota Reformer cover state government online.
Minnesota newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for foreclosures, probate and government actions, publish obituaries for 87 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with Minnesota Court Records Online.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Minnesota Newspapers
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Major Minnesota newspapers and what they cover
The Star Tribune covers the Twin Cities, state government, the Minnesota Supreme Court and the federal court, with back issues from the 1860s onward in the digital archives. The Pioneer Press covers St. Paul, Ramsey County and the Capitol. The News Tribune covers Duluth, the Iron Range and the North Shore, the Post Bulletin covers Rochester and the Mayo Clinic, and the St. Cloud Times covers central Minnesota. Minnesota's county weeklies, from the Warroad Pioneer to the Winona Post, carry county board minutes, sheriff's reports and the district court notices that Minnesota's counties publish.
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Historic Minnesota newspapers online
The Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub from the Minnesota Historical Society offers free digitized Minnesota newspapers from the territorial era onward, one of the largest state collections, and Minnesota titles also appear in Chronicling America. The Historical Society's library in St. Paul holds newspaper microfilm for every county, and the Hennepin County Library provides free access to the Star Tribune archive with a library card and hosts a Minneapolis newspaper index.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Minnesota
Minnesota law requires mortgage foreclosure sale notices, probate notices to creditors, name changes, tax forfeiture lists and county, city and school district proceedings to be published in a qualified newspaper in the county, and the Minnesota Newspaper Association collects them in a statewide search. Obituaries run in most Minnesota papers, daily and weekly, and the Minnesota Historical Society and the Hennepin County Library keep death notice indexes. Court coverage pairs with Minnesota Court Records Online, the statewide case search.
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Straight answers
Minnesota Newspaper Directory, questions
What is Minnesota's largest newspaper by circulation?
The Minnesota Star Tribune in Minneapolis, followed by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Duluth News Tribune, the Rochester Post Bulletin and the St. Cloud Times.
Where are historic Minnesota newspapers online?
The Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub from the Minnesota Historical Society offers free digitized titles from the territorial era onward, and Chronicling America adds more.
Where are Minnesota foreclosure notices published?
In a qualified newspaper in the county where the property sits, collected in the Minnesota Newspaper Association's statewide public notice search.