Good evening. You might see some smoke this weekend. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on Friday put all of Minnesota under an air quality alert through Sunday at noon as wildfire smoke continues to push in from western Canada. | Forecast | Updraft
Three leading DFL gubernatorial candidates tried to distinguish themselves Friday on guns, immigration, recreational marijuana and other issues during an MPR News debate. Voters on Tuesday will decide which candidate moves on to the November ballot.
The Minnesota health department reports 72 people were sickened by parasitic and bacterial infections after swimming at a campground in Zumbrota, Minn.
The two were among the first newspaper people in Minnesota to get a radio gig, a practice that exploded in the '90s as talk radio made a comeback. But AM talk radio attracts an older, male demographic that is declining.
First reported Monday by The Intercept, the online publication ran a second story Thursday, saying that after the first story ran, more than a dozen people, including seven former employees, came forward to share stories of being asked to volunteer for Swanson's campaigns.
This will be the third weekend in a row that Interstate 35W has been closed in Minneapolis, although the new closure is less extensive than the previous two weekends.
Defense attorneys had argued that jury instructions had conflated intending to join at terrorist group with intending to murder, and that prosecutors should have been required to prove a specific intent to kill.
