Much of the Twin Cities and western Wisconsin were surprised by hail Thursday afternoon but fear not, today brings us warm temps. Highs will reach the upper 60s to near 70 degrees in the south, with 50s and even some 40s up north. Get the latest on Updraft.
The port of Duluth is used to the comings and goings of slow-moving, barge-like, thousand-foot long freighters, weighted down with hulking loads of iron ore bound for steel mills in the lower Great Lakes. But it’s not everyday that a high-tech Navy combat ship, that can travel faster than 45 miles per hour and move nimbly from side to side using water jet engines, pulls up under the Aerial Lift Bridge.
Two companies are planning to construct pipelines to collect carbon dioxide emissions from ethanol plants in Minnesota and surrounding states and store the CO2 underground in North Dakota and Illinois. Current regulation of those pipelines is left to counties. The Montevideo-based environmental group Clean Up the River Environment, or CURE, petitioned the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to regulate carbon pipelines like these.
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Facing election headwinds, Minnesota Democrats gather for convention. High inflation, gas prices and crime rates are all working against incumbent Minnesota Democrats this election year. As the party holds its state convention this weekend in Rochester, party leaders say they believe voters will still prefer them over the Republican alternative.
