The U.S. announced new COVID-19 testing requirements Wednesday for all travelers from China, joining other nations imposing restrictions because of a surge of infections.
Former President Donald Trump, left, listens as Michigan Republican secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo speaks during a rally at the Macomb Community College Sports & Expo Center in Warren, Mich. on Oct. 1. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP, File)
On Friday, Sept. 23, the Centers for Disease Control issues updated COVID-19 guidance for health care providers. The updates included changes to infection control, potential exposures at work, and mitigating staff shortages.
Getting back to the COVID-19 basics in terms of testing, isolation and treatment is what one Allina Health doctor said can make a difference in the community.
A Ramsey County judge on Monday gave a 16-year sentence to a teen convicted in the shooting death of a man during a robbery in St. Paul. Mekhi Speed is the cousin of Amir Locke, 22, whom Minneapolis police killed Feb. 2 while executing a no-knock search warrant to gather evidence in the inve…
Minnesota State Fair officials say they're looking for about 1,200 workers to staff this summer's event — and they're holding a job fair Wednesday to help fill those positions.
When it comes to campaign fundraising, what comes in will certainly go back out — through ads, rallies, lawn signs and door-to-door canvassing.
Summer is a busy time at the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority garage in Eagan. It’s the time of year that the buses turn off their commuter routes for an annual deep cleaning.
Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar was arrested, along with 17 other members of Congress, during a demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.
He’d been dead for as much as a year, after apparently living in an abandoned Union Pacific railroad shed and using newspapers to line his shoes.
Minnesota’s legal landscape on abortion has grown more liberal as restrictions in much of the country get more conservative.
A group of educators gathered around a canoe display at the Grand Portage State Park welcome center. Rick Novitsky, who used to be the park manager, began telling a story about how the Grand Portage band of Chippewa turned this land on the banks of the Pigeon River and the Canadian border fr…
ST. PAUL — A judge declared most of Minnesota’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional on Monday, including the state’s mandatory 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that both parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion.
There’s a saying in Indian Country that Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin used to frame up her remarks about the need for infrastructure improvements during a U.S. Senate field hearing in Prior Lake.
Benton County authorities have identified the pilot …
Minnesotans with a range of disabilities face a worr…
U.S. health authorities are facing a critical decisi…
Some of Minnesota’s youngest residents will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as early as this week.
A Wright County man was sentenced Friday to life in prison plus 72 years for his attack last year on a medical clinic in Buffalo, Minn., that left one staffer dead and four seriously injured.
As the music begins, couples take to the dance floor. They move effortlessly. Their bodies so close not even a whisper-thin silk scarf could glide between them.
As the first warm waves of heat hit our area, we beg…
Despite early glitches with the state website, nearl…
A scientist who documented a decline in Wisconsin’s …
Three of Minnesota’s state-run COVID-19 testing sites will soon become spots for COVID treatment, too, making them some of the first to come out of the federal government’s push to create “test-to-treat” sites.
Beer drinkers can take home their favorite brews to-go in growlers from the state’s largest craft brewers starting Monday after lawmakers made the most significant changes to the state’s liquor laws since allowing Sunday sales.
In one measure of how windy it was in Minnesota, utilities reported generating much more wind power this year.
Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minn., says it is…
Authorities in southern Minnesota say they are expan…
Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brookly…
The Legislature is barreling toward the end of its yearly session still lacking a big deal on taxes and spending but making progress around the edges nonetheless.
This week, Gov. Tim Walz and Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm visited St. Paul Corner Drug to get their second COVID-19 booster shots.
The mother of a man killed by Brooklyn Center police last year says an officer there threatened to arrest her for legally filming a traffic stop and arrest Wednesday night.
The growing possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court …
President Joe Biden visited Minneapolis Sunday after…
Time is slipping away at the Minnesota Capitol, with…
The Washington County Attorney’s Office says it will not file charges against officers who fatally shot a man in Forest Lake last November, saying their use of deadly force was justified.
Flags are a big deal in Minnesota. Civil War flags line the rotunda of the State Capitol. A Confederate flag captured at Gettysburg is among the state’s most prized historical artifacts.
Minnesotans have this week to weigh in on a draft plan outlining the state’s vision to address climate change and its impacts.
State Rep. John Thompson intervened after a 26-year-…
The final weeks of the college school year have been…
Gov. Tim Walz will be back in the Minnesota House ch…
The Capitol Rotunda was filled with people Thursday to kick off an advocacy day of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. The rally that began with a Buddhist blessing.
Gov. Tim Walz implored state lawmakers Sunday to reach agreements rather than careen toward deadlock, telling a joint session of the Legislature that a projected $9.25 billion budget surplus leaves plenty of room for compromise.
Work to expand another 12 miles of U.S. Highway 14 to four lanes in southern Minnesota is underway. It’s the last leg in a decades-long effort to create a four-lane transportation corridor between Rochester and New Ulm.
From her perch at the Minnesota Department of Health…
Jockeying among Republican candidates aiming for the…
Each April we officially recognize National Minority…
When you look around, it would appear that many people think the pandemic is over. Hospitalizations and deaths in Minnesota are at some of their lowest levels of the pandemic. But there’s been a fast rise in cases on the East Coast.
Three former Minneapolis officers charged in the death of George Floyd rejected plea deals from prosecutors last month. That’s according to a Hennepin County District Court judge’s statements during a pre-trial hearing Monday.
Tyler Jacob, a Minnesota man who was detained by Russian forces as he tried to leave embattled Ukraine, recounted his ordeal Tuesday as he met with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who helped secure his release.
For “Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Ex…
The COVID-19 load in Twin Cities wastewater continue…
The Minnesota Senate passed the keystone of the Repu…
From the outside, the gray building just off Highway 71 in Willmar isn’t very imposing.
Republicans in the Minnesota Senate want to prevent the state attorney general from using outside resources for staff in his office.
GRAND PORTAGE — To administer this COVID test, Todd Kautz had to lie on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on its snout, Kautz carefully slipped a long cotton swab into the bear’s nostrils five times.
Jurors in St. Paul are expected to hear closing argu…
Minnesota’s pension fund holdings in investments wit…
At her job, Mayla Yang toggles between Hmong and Eng…
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office on Tuesday confirmed the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s probe into police killing of Amir Locke is in the hands of prosecutors who’ll now review the evidence for possible charges.
Federal agriculture officials are sending a team to respond to the latest outbreak of avian influenza in Minnesota, as the state is now reporting a third affected poultry flock.
Some Minnesota lawmakers are proposing to give the state Department of Natural Resources more enforcement tools to hold accountable those who violate permits to use the state’s water.
A Twin Cities man has been charged in Mille Lacs Cou…
COVID-19 conditions continue to ease in Minnesota, w…
The Minneapolis Public Schools and its teachers unio…
Wintry mix? Check. Basketball tournament snowstorm? Got it. And now, another sure sign of spring in Minnesota: Eaglets are hatching in the bald eagle nest in front of the DNR’s EagleCam.
As the spring storm season approaches, the annual effort to sign up volunteer weather observers across the country is in full swing.
Neil McKay was 15 when he heard two men speaking in Dakota for the first time. His family was attending a relative’s wake, the men were standing at the door as McKay walked by.
An auction of Ukrainian children’s art sent to the I…
A man who was partially blinded during the George Fl…
A major shift is coming to the Iron Range legislativ…
Until now, paid family and medical leave proposals at the state Capitol had been a largely one-sided affair. Democrats have pushed unsuccessfully for years to create a government program that would guarantee paid time off to bond with a child or care for a sick family member.
Drawings and paintings of owls entered in a Minnesota-based art contest by kids in Ukraine over the past two decades are now being auctioned off to help that embattled country.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has released details of more groundwater leaks caused by the construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline last year.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rolled out his proposal…
There’s still no agreement on replenishing the state…
Minnesota’s path out of the pandemic continues to br…
Minnesota business leaders, many lawmakers and the state agency that oversees unemployment benefits have had March 15 circled on the calendar. That’s when they had hoped to have resolved a $1.3 billion debt in the state’s unemployment trust fund and refill it to a level where automatic tax i…
Minnesota lawmakers are through one month of their 2022 legislative session, circling the issues they hope to confront and having been apprised of a record-setting surplus they can use along the way.
We’re heading into the third year of the COVID pandemic. So far, 6 million people have died worldwide from the respiratory illness. Last week, the U.S. was averaging 1,500 COVID deaths a day. However, infection and hospitalization rates are waning.
Gov. Tim Walz took formal action Friday related to t…
The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and the St. P…
Minnesota’s pandemic path continues to brighten, wit…
The Minnesota House plans to vote Thursday on a bill requiring a special audit of the over budget Southwest light rail line, just one of several intensive reviews lawmakers are seeking this year from the Office of the Legislative Auditor.
An advocacy group is raising questions about CenterPoint Energy’s financial interest in a Texas-based energy company that it says made billions of dollars from natural gas price spikes following a February 2021 winter storm.
A Minnesota House panel advanced legislation Wednesday to ban conversion therapy in the state.
As pet ownership has skyrocketed during the COVID pa…
Minnesota lawmakers found themselves swimming in sur…
Minnesota is dealing with something new in the COVID…
Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 numbers offer more evidence of a pandemic surge in retreat, with fewer than 600 patients in the hospital now and new daily cases trending at a six-month low.
Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 numbers offer more evidence of a pandemic surge in retreat, with fewer than 600 patients in the hospital now and new daily cases trending at a six-month low.
Most Americans live in places where healthy people, including students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday.
Minnesota’s pandemic path continues to brighten, wit…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 report shows some promis…
Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant s…
The omicron surge seems to be receding — in the Twin Cities, at least. But COVID-19 cases are still peaking in greater Minnesota, we’re learning about N95 masks as they’re adopted more widely and there’s confusion about boosters.
Ironically, it took college writing professor Sequoia Nagamatsu 10 years to pen his first novel about a virus-stricken future that debuts this month during a real-life global pandemic.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
After a thoughtful discussion regarding the pros and cons of instituting a temporary 30-day citywide mask ordinance to stem the spread of the persistent Omicron variant, the Northfield City Council rejected the mandate Jan. 18.
With COVID-19 case counts hitting historic highs acr…
Amid an increasing spread of COVID-19 infections amo…
Just one month after the highly contagious omicron v…
Just one month after the highly contagious omicron variant was detected in Minnesota, the state is staring down a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 infections. Last week, the state witnessed 10,000 new infections per day, the highest number of daily infections recorded throughout the pandemic.
Close up of the face of senior female patient being tested for Covid-19 with a nasal swab, by a health Professional protected with gloves and PPE suit. Rapid Antigen Test during Coronavirus Pandemic.
In a message sent out by the school district to parents, Faribault Public Schools announced that both the middle school and high school will be transitioning back to distance learning, at least for the time being.
From the wide window on the north side of the Northf…
Across Minnesota, many schools are returning to dist…
Amid prolonged federal legal wrangling, Waseca Publi…
Minnesota’s post-holidays COVID-19 surge surfaced in a big way Tuesday. The latest numbers show the state is slammed again following a three-week December dip in cases. It’s here, it’s real and it’s clubbing the Twin Cities metro area.
Two frontline doctors at NH+C were asked to look both backwards and forward in describing COVID-19’s impact on our community. Here’s a portion of their answers:
Amid an ongoing pandemic where change has come too slowly, the St. Peter community has, somewhat quietly, seen several shifts in its fabric in 2021, specifically among its leaders.
‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, family gatherings…
‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, family gatherings…
The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most in…
The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most inmates infected with COVID-19 of any federal correctional institution (FCI) in America. In fact, nearly half the inmates throughout the entire federal prison system who are actively infected with COVID-19 are located at FCI-Waseca.
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday season are routine. This year’s blood shortage isn’t.
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday season are routine. This year’s blood shortage isn’t.
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Counties across southern Minnesota witnessed year-hi…
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving process for those mourning a loved one upside down, uprooting decades of tradition. And while the availability of vaccines and increased knowledge of the virus has comforted some funeral goers, others remain intensely leery.
Nearly two years ago, COVID-19 turned the grieving p…
Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 report shows some promis…
Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant s…
The omicron surge seems to be receding — in the Twin Cities, at least. But COVID-19 cases are still peaking in greater Minnesota, we’re learning about N95 masks as they’re adopted more widely and there’s confusion about boosters.
Ironically, it took college writing professor Sequoia Nagamatsu 10 years to pen his first novel about a virus-stricken future that debuts this month during a real-life global pandemic.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic le…
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
Even as COVID-19 case counts are hitting historic levels amid the Omicron surge, local restaurants are forging ahead thanks to strong support from their communities.
After a thoughtful discussion regarding the pros and cons of instituting a temporary 30-day citywide mask ordinance to stem the spread of the persistent Omicron variant, the Northfield City Council rejected the mandate Jan. 18.
With COVID-19 case counts hitting historic highs acr…
Amid an increasing spread of COVID-19 infections amo…
Just one month after the highly contagious omicron v…
Just one month after the highly contagious omicron variant was detected in Minnesota, the state is staring down a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 infections. Last week, the state witnessed 10,000 new infections per day, the highest number of daily infections recorded throughout the pandemic.
Close up of the face of senior female patient being tested for Covid-19 with a nasal swab, by a health Professional protected with gloves and PPE suit. Rapid Antigen Test during Coronavirus Pandemic.
In a message sent out by the school district to parents, Faribault Public Schools announced that both the middle school and high school will be transitioning back to distance learning, at least for the time being.
From the wide window on the north side of the Northf…
Across Minnesota, many schools are returning to dist…
Amid prolonged federal legal wrangling, Waseca Publi…
Minnesota’s post-holidays COVID-19 surge surfaced in a big way Tuesday. The latest numbers show the state is slammed again following a three-week December dip in cases. It’s here, it’s real and it’s clubbing the Twin Cities metro area.
Two frontline doctors at NH+C were asked to look both backwards and forward in describing COVID-19’s impact on our community. Here’s a portion of their answers:
Amid an ongoing pandemic where change has come too slowly, the St. Peter community has, somewhat quietly, seen several shifts in its fabric in 2021, specifically among its leaders.
‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, family gatherings…
‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, family gatherings…
The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most in…
The federal women’s prison in Waseca has the most inmates infected with COVID-19 of any federal correctional institution (FCI) in America. In fact, nearly half the inmates throughout the entire federal prison system who are actively infected with COVID-19 are located at FCI-Waseca.
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday season are routine. This year’s blood shortage isn’t.
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday season are routine. This year’s blood shortage isn’t.
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Appeals for blood donations during the holiday seaso…
Counties across southern Minnesota witnessed year-hi…