Good morning! Sunny and pleasant, with highs around 50. 50!!!! You know what else arrives today? March Madness. Fanatics of men's college basketball already have their brackets filled and team jerseys out and ironed for the tipoff. But if you don't live and breathe college hoops, it's easy to feel left out of the NCAA tournament fun. No worries! Here's a non-fanatics guide to this year's Big Dance. | What's on MPR News today? | Forecast
Hundreds of homes in flood-prone areas of Fargo-Moorhead are gone: bought, removed and replaced by permanent flood levees. But there are a few holdouts who feel strongly about staying near the river, even as the threat of another flood looms. PLUS: Eyeing the melt in Marshall, Minn. | Sandbagging 101 | Tell MPR: How are you preparing for flood season?
Following the school's abrupt closing, more than a dozen colleges in Minnesota say they are working with Argosy students who need to find a way to continue their education. But some students were pursuing degrees in fields so specific, that there might not be any local transfer options for their programs.
When Gov. Tim Walz hits the road, some of his destinations lately are carefully chosen to put pressure on Republicans who will determine the fate of his key proposals. It's a tactic that Republicans warn will backfire.
Minnesota is among the fastest warming states, and Minnesota's winters are warming faster than its other seasons. Data show that since 1970, Minnesota's winters have warmed at an average rate of 1.1 degrees per decade -- that's more than five times faster than the rate of winter warming in previous years. | Minnesota's biggest climate change signals
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday that the government will ban "military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles" to avert "the kind of horror and attack that we saw on Friday."
A week after Cyclone Idai hit coastal Mozambique and swept across the country to Zimbabwe, the death, damage and flooding continues in southern Africa, making it one of the most destructive natural disasters in the region's recent history.
