Temperatures will continue to trend upward Friday into the weekend with near normal readings in the 40s south to 30s north. Far southern Minnesota may even see highs in the 50s. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: The Minnesota firearms deer season opens this weekend. Hunters can expect expanded surveillance for chronic wasting disease and restrictions aimed at limiting spread of the disease that is always fatal in deer. Reporter Dan Gunderson brings us the story.
Coming up at 11 a.m.:This Friday, on Big Books and Bold Ideas, Dr. Brian H Williams talks with MPR News host Kerri Miller about his book "The Bodies Keep Coming." They discuss what led him to medicine in the first place, the systemic racism he witnessed in the health care field and why he still believes healing is possible.
If you use a wheelchair it can be a challenge to get out into the woods. But that is changing. The Minnesota DNR introduced five all-terrain trackchairs in some state parks last summer. Now 13 state parks offer the caterpillar-tracked chairs.
About eight percent of Minnesota adults have a mobile disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Without the proper infrastructure, many are unable to have access to the state parks, let alone the trails.
Wondering what to do with your pumpkins now that Halloween is over?
The life cycle of a pumpkin may end with it baked into a dessert, carved into artwork, or — in the case of some pumpkins in Cottage Grove, Minn., — rolled down a child’s slide and smashed at the bottom of a hill.
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Numbers still small, but costs of managing chronic wasting disease expanding. More than 400,000 hunters are expected to participate in the Minnesota deer hunting season this year. Hunters can expect expanded testing for chronic wasting disease and restrictions on the movement of killed deer, all aimed at limiting the spread of the disease that is always fatal in deer.
The surprising story behind Dan Patch Avenue. In our latest installment of Minnesota Now and Then, MPR contributors Robbie Mitchem, Jamal Allen and Britt Aamodt bring us this story on one of the state's most famous athletes of all time.
Minnesota professor takes sabbatical, finds joy in waiting tables. When a professor takes a sabbatical, they typically don’t end up waiting tables at a local brewery. For Matthew Batt, a University of St. Thomas associate professor of English, that became his reality. He detailed the journey in his book the “Last Supper Club: A Waiters Requiem.”
Utilities ask Minnesota regulators to approve gas, electric rate hikes. Duluth-based Minnesota Power is asking state regulators to approve a 12 percent increase in the electric rates it charges customers. CenterPoint Energy and Xcel Energy also filed requests for rate increases this week for their natural gas customers in Minnesota.
