2024 Navigation Season Opening This Week in Twin Ports
The Soo Locks open Friday evening on the St. Mary’s River between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes. MNN’s Brent Palm has more:
TODAY’S HEADLINES
Morning Headlines – March 18th, 2024
>>Busy Monday at the Minnesota State Capitol (St. Paul, MN) -- Bills that would set minimum wage protections for Minnesotans with disabilities have hearings (p-m) in both the Minnesota House and Senate. This morning (Mon 1030am) there's the last committee stop before a House floor vote on a bill requiring plain language on driver’s license written tests, and a bill naming a section of...
Midday Headlines – March 18th, 2024
>>Ellison Warns About Healthcare-Related Scams After UnitedHealth Hack (St. Paul, MN) -- Attorney General Keith Ellison is warning all Minnesotans about possible healthcare scams. Hackers attacked a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group last month, leading to severe problems for companies that were unable to receive payments. Information from millions of customers may also have been...
Afternoon Headlines – Mar. 18th, 2024
>>Walz proposes modest $226M supplemental budget (St. Paul, MN) -- Governor Tim Walz is proposing the state spend 226 million dollars of the projected 3.7-billion-dollar budget surplus for 2024-25. The modest, one-page proposal comes in the context of the latest forecast showing that, although the surplus grew by 1.3 billion dollars for the current budget cycle, there's still a long-term...
Afternoon Headlines – Mar. 18th, 2024
>>Walz proposes modest $226M supplemental budget (St. Paul, MN) -- Governor Tim Walz is proposing the state spend 226 million dollars of the projected 3.7-billion-dollar budget surplus for 2024-25. The modest, one-page proposal comes in the context of the latest forecast showing that, although the surplus grew by 1.3 billion dollars for the current budget cycle, there's still a long-term...
Midday Headlines – March 18th, 2024
>>Ellison Warns About Healthcare-Related Scams After UnitedHealth Hack (St. Paul, MN) -- Attorney General Keith Ellison is warning all Minnesotans about possible healthcare scams. Hackers attacked a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group last month, leading to severe problems for companies that were unable to receive payments. Information from millions of customers may also have been...
Morning Headlines – March 18th, 2024
>>Busy Monday at the Minnesota State Capitol (St. Paul, MN) -- Bills that would set minimum wage protections for Minnesotans with disabilities have hearings (p-m) in both the Minnesota House and Senate. This morning (Mon 1030am) there's the last committee stop before a House floor vote on a bill requiring plain language on driver’s license written tests, and a bill naming a section of...
SPORTS
Ant Mighty In Win Over Jazz
(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Anthony Edwards scored 32 points as the shorthanded T-Wolves held off...
Gopher men’s basketball headed to NIT
The University of Minnesota men’s basketball team earned a bid into the National Invitation...
#5 Gopher women lose four overtime heartbreaker
The No. 5 Minnesota Golden Gophers women’s hockey lost a four overtime heartbreaker to the No. 4...