and an image of a rather large mosquito. Instead, the flag design adopted in December includes a dark blue shape resembling Minnesota on the left, with a white, eight-pointed North Star on it.

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota leaders tasked residents ... Proponents of the change say the main image on the current flag, first flown in 1957, and the seal, adopted in 1861, is offensive.

Getty Images Indigenous members of the commission said Minnesota's current flag was offensive to Native Americans. Mr Prekker's design, however, has been compared by some to the flag of Puntland ...

A team of engineers from the University of Minnesota sent the new Minnesota state flag into space on July 17. The experiment tested how certain fabricated materials, which engineers foresee being used ...