Good afternoon! Wednesday was the warmest day of the year so far in the Twin Cities. But the numbers suggest that the Easter weekend will be a bit chillier. It seems like winter has lasted forever. But by most measures, this has been a fairly average winter in Minnesota. Catch more weather coverage on Updraft. | Forecast | NewsCut
President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin Wednesday in the wake of a bruising ethics scandal and a mounting rebellion within the agency, and nominated White House doctor Ronny Jackson to lead the agency.
A Minneapolis FBI agent who started his career with the agency as an intern in 2000 has been charged with leaking classified information to the news website The Intercept.
Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday he’ll veto a bill to authorize a replacement of the Line 3 oil pipeline in northern Minnesota if the Legislature tries to preempt the normal state approval process.
Police investigating the superintendent of the Rocori school district in central Minnesota say he may have exposed himself more than a dozen times at different stores in the St. Cloud area in recent months.
A Minnesota food company is recalling 48 tons of canned chicken products that may be contaminated with hard plastic. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Wednesday that Tony Downs Food Co. of Madelia issued the recall.
State lawmakers have introduced bills to kill it. A state administrative law judge has rejected it. Industry and environmental groups oppose it. Yet the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is standing behind its proposed changes to a 45-year-old water quality standard — one that's never really been enforced — that's designed to protect the iconic wild rice plant.
Environmental Protection Agency leadership is encouraging staff to promote skepticism of well-established science showing humans are causing the climate to change, according to news reports on a leaked memo.
While the narrative surrounding the Minneapolis-St. Paul restaurant scene at the end of 2017 focused on the rash of restaurant closings, there is much to look forward to in 2018 according to Mpls.St.Paul Magazine restaurant critic Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl.
