Hospitals around the state report more than 90 percent of hospital beds are filled. The number is higher in the metro. The pressure comes from COVID patients, people addressing medical needs put off during the pandemic and the typical trauma care resulting from Minnesotans being active outside.
And across Minnesota, demand for COVID-19 testing is increasing, straining the state’s testing infrastructure, which had just started to scale back when cases dropped earlier in the summer.
“We are seeing an increase in volume and testing at the state testing sites,” said Minnesota Department of Health Assistant Commissioner Dan Huff.
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A Minnesota judge heard arguments Monday from police groups seeking to overturn a new use-of-deadly force law while state attorneys asked to have the challenge thrown out. A quick ruling is expected.
The United States on Monday completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit that cost the lives of more than 180 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members, some barely older than the war.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed a decision by state pollution regulators to issue a water quality certification for Enbridge Energy's Line 3 crude oil pipeline, the latest setback for opponents who are trying to stop the project as it nears completion.
Republicans in the Minnesota Senate are taking aim at another commissioner in the cabinet of DFL Gov. Tim Walz: Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm. They’ve linked it to what they refer to as medical freedom.
Attendance at the Minnesota State Fair climbed above 100,000 on Saturday — but it remained just a fraction of attendance levels seen at the previous fair in 2019.
The European Union recommended Monday that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from the U.S. because of rising coronavirus infections there.
Thousands of people rushed to get out of South Lake Tahoe as the entire tourist resort city came under evacuation orders and wildfire raced toward the large freshwater lake of Lake Tahoe, which straddles California and Nevada.
