Covid-19 City Updates

Four former Minneapolis police officers are charged with violating George [...]

Republican leaders say Governor Tim Walz is not relaxing COVID [...]

"We're going to have a great summer." So says Governor [...]

With just over one week remaining in the legislative session, [...]

As Minnesota aims to vaccinate 70 percent of those age [...]

Republican Majority Leader Paul Gazelka says it's time to drop [...]

Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon is among several election [...]

In the wake of Governor Walz's timeline for ending COVID [...]

This year’s South Central College (SCC) graduation celebration on May 12 and 13 will [...]

Consolidated Communications Community Fund has granted the Children's Museum of [...]

Minnesota State University, Mankato is celebrating its 2021 spring semester [...]

The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting a slight rise [...]

Governor Tim Walz is unveiling a three-step timeline to end [...]

Police say a man who took hostages inside a bank [...]

County Road 27 (Agency Street) between Thomas Drive and County [...]

A Minnesota semi-truck driver was arrested after leading Iowa State [...]

"Governor, you need to give us a chance.  We really [...]

Former U-S Attorney for Minnesota Tom Heffelfinger says the defense's [...]

An influential Republican says a measure he put on a [...]

Those seeking drivers licenses who don't show up for their [...]

"Don't click the link." That's the new warning from the [...]

The City of North Mankato has completed the Draft Webster [...]

After lengthy and thoughtful debate, the Visit Fairmont Board of [...]

South Central College (SCC) President Annette Parker will be testifying [...]

(St. Paul, MN)  --  State officials say over 800 Minnesota [...]

State health officials are reporting just under 13-hundred new cases [...]

Governor Tim Walz is expected to announce a timeline for [...]

Department of Public Safety Commission John Harrington says Minnesota needs [...]

To make it convenient for South Central College (SCC) students [...]

Lawmakers heard from both sides today (Tues) as Democrats and [...]

A juror in the Derek Chauvin murder trial attended the [...]

Minnesota Senate Republicans have made the first of what will [...]

There's good news on vaccine availability for states like Minnesota [...]

An influential state Senate Republican, Bill Ingebrigtsen from Alexandria, threatened [...]

Governor Tim Walz says he hopes to announce Thursday relaxed [...]

Pfizer is expected to get the green light to expand [...]

A Black juror in the Derek Chauvin murder trial is [...]

The Minnesota State Fair is hosting a "Kickoff to Summer [...]

The monthly Creighton University survey of business leaders shows the [...]

We are just over two weeks away from the opening [...]

Minnesota State University, Mankato President-Elect Edward Inch announced Tuesday the [...]

At 7 a.m., Thursday, May 6, a portion of Warren Street (from [...]

The Minnesota State Fair is preparing to hold a special [...]

The attorney for Derek Chauvin is filing a motion to [...]

Governor Tim Walz is set to discuss COVID-19 restrictions at [...]

(St. Paul, MN)  --  The Minnesota Department of Health says [...]

"Well, good afternoon, everyone..." ...Governor Tim Walz at Alice Smith [...]

The Metropolitan Mosquito Control District says Minnesota will have a [...]

In partnership with Mayo Clinic Health Systems, MAPS is excited [...]

MANKATO, MN – Bethany Lutheran College announced today that it will add [...]

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is reminding everyone with [...]

As more and more Minnesotans are vaccinated for COVID-19, the [...]

The Minnesota Department of Health is reporting just over eleven-hundred [...]

The Minnesota Senate is approving a bill that would require [...]

May 4 there's a ribbon cutting for the Comfort Inn [...]

Governor Tim Walz is rolling out a timeline for easing [...]

(St. Paul, MN)  --  Health officials say drug overdoses are [...]

(Mankato, MN)  --  Mankato Police are investigating after a body [...]

Dozens of people in Brooklyn Center march to remember Daunte [...]

Alcohol-related deaths are on the rise across Minnesota.  University of [...]

Legislation co-authored by Senator Tina Smith to lower prescription drug [...]

With Governor Walz likely to announce further loosening of COVID [...]

Police reform is by far the most contentious issue as [...]

State lawmakers are nearing the finish line of the current [...]

Mankato’s Annual Clean-up begins this week and will be held at the [...]

A nine-year-old boy avoids injury after climbing onto a baggage [...]

A new report from National Education Association shows Minnesota pays [...]

A report from the Minnesota Department of Health is showing [...]

Democrats tried unsuccessfully today (Thurs) to strike a measure requiring [...]

The F-D-A  its intention to ban menthol cigarettes. Laura Smith [...]

A public safety hearing--with no public testimony--is now on the [...]

President Biden unveiled his new "American Families Plan" Wednesday night [...]

Any organization that plans to close a hospital in Minnesota [...]

The Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) is urging all Minnesotans to [...]

(Northfield, MN)  --  Northfield's Carleton College will require students, staff, [...]

(Bloomington, MN)  --  Through the rest of this week, the [...]

County Road 82 (Victory Drive) between County Road 60 (Stadium [...]

More coronavirus cases and related deaths have been reported in [...]

A 16-year-old boy faces charges in connection to the death [...]

A five-year-old boy is dead after falling from the side [...]

Blue Earth County Public Health and Mankato Area Public Schools [...]

Shortly after 7 p.m. on April 27th, 2021, North Mankato [...]

The same insurance coverage and access to "telehealth" services as [...]

Police would handle defendants with outstanding warrants for petty misdemeanors [...]

It's National Work Zone Awareness Week and citizen safety advocate [...]

The sentencing date for former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin [...]

(St. Paul, MN) -- The Minnesota Legislature has passed a [...]

(Moorhead, MN) --   Moorhead Police say one man has [...]

The governor's office says Minnesotans can now make appointments at [...]

Members of the People of Color and Indigenous Caucus (POCI) [...]

Minnesota Senate Republicans bring their tax bill to a floor [...]

(Minneapolis, MN) --   Sun Country Airlines is adding 18 [...]

Police are investigating a crash that killed a woman in [...]

The Food and Drug Administration appears poised to ban menthol [...]

A hearing about last fall's pause of youth sports called [...]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the deadline [...]

A Texas attorney is seeking a pardon for George Floyd [...]

Those registering to vote on Election Day would fill out [...]

(St. Paul, MN) -- It seems that one of the [...]

(Marshall, MN) --   Minnesota has had its third pediatric [...]

A St. Louis Park nursing home is paying the state's [...]

(Plymouth, MN)   -- Police say one student is in [...]

April is Donate Life Month and local health officials are [...]

Minnesota will keep all eight of its congressional districts after [...]

County Road 57 / N. Riverfront Drive between Good Counsel [...]

Senator Amy Klobuchar says change on racial injustice is needed [...]

There is a new podcast series that addresses the issue [...]

Minnesota Senate Republicans have queued up their tax bill for [...]

(Minneapolis, MN) --   The names of the jurors in [...]

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says George Floyd bears no [...]

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says last week's guilty verdicts [...]

Local governments in Minnesota could not tax food or the [...]

Minnesota has reached 100 deaths on its roads at the [...]

There will *not* be separate hearings this week in the [...]

A new resource from the state Department of Human Services [...]

(St. Paul, MN) -- Macalester College says students and staff [...]

The Minnesota Health Department says the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 [...]

Memorial services to honor the late Vice President Walter Mondale [...]

On April 16, 2021, the North Mankato Police Department received [...]

A local group of men is introducing an app to [...]

The Minnesota Senate this afternoon (Thurs) over objections of some [...]

Top officials say they're still ready for any trouble, even [...]

State health officials are reporting high numbers of COVID-19 cases [...]

An adult-use cannabis bill continues to make its way through [...]

Around $15 million would be dedicated to tobacco prevention each [...]

The former Minneapolis cop convicted of killing George Floyd is [...]

(Minneapolis, MN) --   Governor Tim Walz is making specific [...]

Student-athletes in Minnesota are no longer required to wear face [...]

(Faribault, MN) --   Two men are uninjured after escaping [...]

More coronavirus cases and related deaths have been reported in [...]

The trial of Derek Chauvin is over, and new data [...]

The 20-year-old Black man who was killed by Brooklyn Center [...]

Minnesota Farmfest is coming back in person this year. Organizers [...]

Marsha Danielson, vice president of economic development at South Central [...]

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 24 [...]

On April 21, Agents with the Minnesota River Valley Drug [...]

The Democrat-controlled Minnesota House last night (Wed) passed a public [...]

Extra law enforcement concentrated in the Twin Cities is starting [...]

The U-S Department of Justice (DOJ) is conducting an investigation [...]

After being forced to shut down for several months last [...]

A New Prague establishment will pay a 15 thousand dollar [...]

More coronavirus cases and related deaths have been reported in [...]

(Rochester, MN) --   Residents in southern Minnesota can now [...]

A public viewing is being held for Daunte Wright, the [...]

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President Joe Biden Tuesday night addressed the nation following the [...]

Governor Tim Walz, after the verdicts were read, had high [...]

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says the guilty verdicts against [...]

Guilty on all three counts--that's the jury verdict in the [...]

(Minneapolis, MN) --   University of Minnesota researchers develop a [...]

It's not clear how many years Derek Chauvin will spend [...]

All flags in Minnesota are at half staff in honor [...]

(Minneapolis, MN) --   Crowds are remembering the life and [...]

(St. Paul, MN)   -- Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner [...]

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says the work in the state [...]

The USDA is discontinuing the Farmers to Families Food Box [...]

Jurors in the Derek Chauvin murder trial will be back [...]

A Minnesota State Senator is proposing a new law that [...]

The jury is deliberating the evidence in the Derek Chauvin [...]

As Minnesotans and the world await a verdict in the [...]

Minnesotans are mourning the loss of former Vice President Walter [...]

Some Democrats joined Republicans this afternoon (Mon) as the GOP-controlled [...]

California Congresswoman Maxine Waters on Sunday urged Minnesota protesters to [...]

Wrapping up his rebuttal to the defense, prosecutor Jerry Blackwell [...]

Late this week more counties were added to the spring [...]

Officials with some hospitals in Minnesota say a third surge [...]

Mankato-Public Safety responded to the report of a structure fire [...]

Governor Tim Walz says he appreciates Republican Majority Leader Paul [...]

It's a day off (FRI) in the Derek Chauvin trial [...]

Scammers are seizing on the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines a [...]

The cloudy and wet conditions across Minnesota this month have [...]

(Hutchinson, MN) --   A police officer in Hutchinson, Minnesota, [...]

For the fifth straight night, people protested the death of [...]

The Minnesota Department of Health says almost one-thousand residents died [...]

More coronavirus cases and related deaths have been reported in [...]

Speaking to press Thursday, Daunte Wright's family says they were [...]

Both sides have rested their cases in the Derek Chauvin [...]

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began last [...]

In a week of turmoil, Minnesotans may be asking how [...]

Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter is now charged [...]

(Brooklyn Center, MN) -- Hundreds of people take to the [...]

(Hennepin Co., MN) -- A forensic pathologist called by Derek [...]

(Hutchinson, MN) --   A man's accused of assaulting a [...]

More coronavirus cases and related deaths have been reported in [...]

Governor Tim Walz's emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic have [...]

The Minnesota DPS-DVS says over 600-thousand vehicles have expired state [...]

The former police officer charged with killing Daunte Wright is [...]

Governor Tim Walz says he does *not* expect to re-tighten [...]

Closed home sales ticked up in March as pending sales [...]

A new study says Minnesota is doing okay when in [...]

Governor Tim Walz is sending his personal sympathies to the [...]

Morries Hall is expected to take the witness stand today. [...]

The defense in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police [...]

(Brooklyn Center, MN) -- The city manager of Brooklyn Center [...]

President Biden is calling for calm after the fatal police [...]

About 40 people are facing charges after the second night [...]

Protesters and police faced off for a second night outside [...]

Vice President Kamala Harris says "prayers are not enough" after [...]

The Minnesota Department of Health says a COVID-19 outbreak has [...]

This week MN-DOT announced their slate of projects for the [...]

Minnesota House Democrats last night (Sun) unveiled their roughly one-billion-dollar [...]

State health officials remain concerned that, at last check, only [...]

Testimony continues today in the Derek Chauvin trial. Another medical [...]