15,000 Minnesota nurses are on strike today (as of 7 am). Management and the union have been unable to reach an agreement on staffing levels and nurse retention. Strike organizers say it’s the largest private sector nurses’ strike in U-S history. Replacement nurses have already been brought in at the impacted hospitals, but the Minnesota Nurses […]

15,000 Minnesota nurses will strike for three days at 15 hospitals in the Twin Cities and Duluth area in what the union calls the largest private sector nurses strike in U-S history. Minnesota Nurses Association President Mary Turner today said it’s about putting “patients before profits” and retaining staff. Turner says “we have done everything. […]

Police say a 19-year-old man was the victim of a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound at Eden Prairie Center Monday night. Investigators say the victim asked a Scheel’s store employee to view a semi-automatic handgun. When the employee handed the unloaded weapon to the man, he ran to another area of the store. Police believe the […]

The Minnesota Housing Department is lifting an August 17th application deadline for the HomeHelpMN program. And Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho says the assistance cap has increased from $35,000 to $50,000. Ho says the program “can help people reinstate past-due mortgages, contract for deed manufactured home loans.  you can pay delinquent expenses such as property taxes […]

Former Iron Range State Senator David Tomassoni has passed away. Tomassoni was diagnosed with A-L-S last summer. There is no known cure for ALS, which is a progressive, neurodegenerative illness that affects muscle control. Tomassoni served as a state senator for 22 years. As one of his last acts in the legislature, Tomassoni helped draft […]

Law enforcement from 300 agencies across the state cited nearly 19,000 drivers for speed violations in the month of July. Officers, deputies and troopers participated in the statewide extra enforcement and awareness campaign resulting in 18,983 citations. During the campaign, Eagan police stopped two cars racing at 103 mph in a 50 mph zone. One […]

Three people, including Best Western employees, are charged today in connection to the shooting at Mall of America Thursday. Bloomington Police chief Booker Hodges says the three charged were friends with the suspected shooter and another man and helped them elude police capture. Hodges identifies the two fugitives as 21-year-old Shamar Lark and 23-year-old Rashad […]

Ex-Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced today to three years in federal prison and fellow former officer Tou Thou was sentenced to three-and-a-half years for violating the civil rights of George Floyd. Kueng, Thao and Thomas Lane were convicted in February of not intervening when former officer Derek Chauvin caused Floyd’s death by […]

Authorities in several metro communities are investigating after recent reports of antisemitic flyers being distributed. Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota Executive Director Steve Hunegs says “law enforcement [in] St Louis Park other communities, they’re concerned about it– of course, the question becomes is this protected First Amendment speech or is this somehow crossed the […]

Patients registered in Minnesota’s Medical Cannabis Program will be eligible to buy gummies and chews from the state’s medical cannabis dispensaries starting August 1st. Director of the Office of Medical Cannabis Chris Tholkes  says “what gummies offer are in particular for folks who need more of an extended coverage of medication typically we would offer […]