Welcome to the start of the week! Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day. ☕
WEATHER
🍂 Mostly sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
🥶Temperatures will stay below average at the start of the work week, with highs in the 50s and 40s in the north until Tuesday. A shift in our weather pattern will introduce warm, southerly winds. Temperatures are expected to rise above average by Wednesday. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Control of the Minnesota House of Representatives could come down to one race in a district outside Duluth, where first-term Republican Natalie Zeleznikar is being challenged by Democratic retired judge Mark Munger.
Medicare’s open enrollment period begins Tuesday amid market turmoil. Health systems in Minnesota are part of a nationwide trend in which shrinking profits have led some to drop Medicare Advantage plans.
NEWS ROUNDUP
🏀Breanna Stewart helps New York even WNBA Finals series as Liberty beat Lynx 80-66 in Game 2. Breanna Stewart scored 21 points and Betnijah Laney-Hamilton added 20 to help the New York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx 80-66 on Sunday in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals.
🕯️ Remembering Kevin Grossheim, the Voyagers National Park ranger who died trying to save others.Family and friends gathered in International Falls on Sunday to remember Kevin Grossheim, a National Park Service ranger who died on Oct. 6.
📉 7-Eleven to close over 400 stores in North America.The ubiquitous convenience store owed its recent revenue drops to inflation, declining cigarette sales and a shift in palates toward fresh food and specialty drinks.
💥 Drone strike in Israel wounds almost 40 as Hezbollah claims responsibility. Israeli rescue services say almost 40 people have been wounded in a drone strike in the central city of Binyamina. Three of them were critically hurt.
🎧 Novelist Kevin Barry writes an Irish western with ‘The Heart in Winter.’ Barry’s new novel, “The Heart in Winter,” is his first set in America. But true to form, it features the Irish. That’s because, in the 1890s, Irish immigrants by the thousands descended upon the tiny frontier town of Butte to work the copper mines — a historical nugget Barry learned in 1999. 🎧 The disconnect between economic data and voters' concerns. Despite good news about wage growth and a lower unemployment rate, many voters are deeply concerned about inflation and how to bring down the cost of living.
