The ongoing government shutdown means a federal energy assistance program is on pause, leaving tens of thousands of Minnesotans who need help affording their utility bills in limbo. The Low Income ...

More than 100,000 Minnesota households will receive help with heating costs this winter after federal energy assistance funds were released following a shutdown delay. The Minnesota Department of ...

As winter tightens its grip on Minnesota, the federal government shutdown freezes critical funding for the state’s Energy Assistance Program (EAP), nationally known as LIHEAP, leaving thousands of ...

ST. PAUL — Thousands of homeowners in Minnesota are seeing delays in energy bill assistance due to the ongoing government shutdown. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP, ...

Thousands of Minnesota households will now be able to receive energy assistance after a monthlong delay caused by the federal government shutdown. The Minnesota Department of Commerce on Wednesday ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s Department of Commerce says funding to help people cover energy bills will be available, but it’s not known when. Funding for LIHEAP, or the Low Income Home Energy Assistance ...

A federally funded program that provides hundreds of dollars to households for energy bills is without funding during the government shutdown. However, a Minnesota official said that people should ...

State officials are voicing concern about the status of energy assistance for low-income Minnesotans after the Trump administration laid off all the staff within the U.S. Department of Health and ...

My mom and dad never wanted to accept any charity. Mom thought other people should get it and, at the time, Dad wasn’t sure anyone should. In the 1980s, when the mines on the Iron Range were all ...