Governor Tim Walz announces this afternoon (2pm) whether Minnesota’s public schools will return to classroom instruction this fall, stay with distance-learning, or a mix of the two. Denise Specht, head of the Education Minnesota teachers union, says she believes some schools are ready to fully re-open because they have classrooms large enough to accommodate spacing, […]

Results of the latest stepped-up enforcement campaign show that speeding has become a major problem on Minnesota roads. Mike Hanson with the state Office of Traffic Safety says between June 22nd and July 19th, 15 deadly crashes were directly attributable to excessive speed — double the numbers in each of the last four years’ enforcement […]

Governor Tim Walz is highlighting his mask order that took effect last weekend, even as state health officials warn about a possible resurgence of COVID-19 in Minnesota. The governor joins business leaders at a packaging company in Brooklyn Park (130pm), spotlighting efforts to distribute four million disposal masks free to businesses around the state. Walz […]

A man convicted of robbing the Deerwood Bank in Garrison in 2017 is back in custody, after authorities say he robbed that same institution last Friday. 51-year-old James Ardito was arrested Monday in the Minneapolis suburb of Andover. Investigators are still looking for a white four-door Cadillac sedan that’s believed to be the getaway car.

Otter Tail County officials have released the name of the child who died after she was pulled unconscious from the water at the Eagle Lake public swimming area last Friday afternoon. Lifesaving measures were performed at the scene and three-year-old Clare Glenetske from Douglas County was flown to a Twin Cities hospital, but authorities received […]

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing top law enforcement officials in the City of Minneapolis and the State of Minnesota, on behalf of protesters injured during demonstrations following the death of George Floyd. A-C-L-U Minnesota Legal Director Teresa Nelson says police used unnecessary violence, often without giving protesters warnings or orders to disperse — […]

MN-DOT is re-opening a section of Highway 68 (from Highway 15 to just west of Blue Earth County Road 45) south of Courtland in south-central Minnesota which had been closed since late June due to mudslides. Crews have made temporary repairs at two spots, but officials say additional work is necessary and will result in […]

An environmental group is criticizing Ivanka Trump for visiting a Duluth outdoor gear company Monday, where the owners signed the administration’s pledge to expand worker training programs. Former D-N-R Commissioner Tom Landwehr, who now heads Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, points to the Trump administration’s push for the Twin Metals copper-nickel mine near Ely […]

The trajectory of COVID-19 in Minnesota is not going as officials would like, with a record daily increase in cases over the weekend and the median age of those infected remaining in the 30s. State Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm says, “Repeating ourselves so often, and hopefully clearly, about the critical importance not only of mask-wearing, […]

The son of a city councilwoman in the central Minnesota community of Big Lake is charged with killing his mother. 20-year-old Eric Jordahl faces two counts of second-degree murder in the death of 62-year-old Rose Johnson and bail is set at one million dollars. Jordahl’s father called 9-1-1 and police arrived to find the defendant […]