Good afternoon! You may want to get out the snow-shoveling gear. Our team at Updraft says we could see two to three days of snow with a few snow systems hitting Minnesota, from the Twin Cities up to Duluth and the North Shore by Sunday. | Forecast | NewsCut
A couple hundred students walked out of school in Minneapolis Wednesday to call for stricter gun control. The students gathered just after midday in Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in south Minneapolis. Their rally happened on the same day as a demonstration in Washington, D.C. by students from the Parkland, Florida, high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week.
Schools in the Orono school district were locked down at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday on the advice of police. Police said two threats were received through social media, including a "direct threat of gun violence at the Orono Schools." All students are safe and a dismissal plan was set up by school officials. After school and evening activities have been canceled.
An $850 million settlement is aimed at helping east metro cities with new treatment plants and other projects reduce a chemical produced by 3M. But some say the agreement reached between the Maplewood-based company and the state of Minnesota may not go far enough to reduce the risk they say exists in their water supplies. | How the settlement can be spent
During an appearance on MPR News Wednesday, Gov. Mark Dayton said licensing unauthorized immigrants to drive would improve public safety. He said the prohibition is unwise and creates a wedge between immigrants and other Minnesotans. | Capitol View
A spokesperson for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said Graham died at his home in Montreat, N.C.. Graham was born in North Carolina and educated outside Chicago, but Graham spent four years as president of a small Christian college in the Twin Cities. During that brief period at Northwestern, Graham became an international superstar. It was a time of unprecedented success for him, but one also marred by failure. | A local pastor reflects on Billy Graham's legacy
Jessie Diggins wins cross-country gold
Jessie Diggins, an Afton native, and Kikkan Randall became the first Americans to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport on Wednesday. The U.S. had never won a medal of any kind in women's cross-country skiing prior to the race | Lindsey Vonn takes home bronze in downhill sking
Minnesota House members were ready to file into a room Wednesday for a private, daylong training session designed to ensure they are all aware of expectations about implicit bias, discrimination and sexual harassment. Attendance was mandatory.
This story is complex and goes beyond a simple "True" or "False" grade. One basic notion that is false is the idea the Obama administration took no action — it did. The question that has been asked many times since the presidential election is why it didn't do more.
After months of intense scrutiny over the role the company played in the 2016 presidential election, the social network giant announced it wants to use postcards to verify the identity of advertising buyers to prevent future foreign meddling.
