Low clouds, fog and mild weather continues for the next few days. Some spotty, wintry precipitation is possible Thursday. Temperatures will be even warmer next week. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: A Minnesota state trooper is charged with murder, manslaughter and assault in the killing of a man who refused to exit his vehicle during a traffic stop last summer. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty alleges that Trooper Ryan Londregan neglected his training when he shot Ricky Cobb II.
President Joe Biden’s stop Thursday at the foot of a vital river bridge gives him a chance to remind people how a major infrastructure law approved early in his term is designed to make travel safer and simpler.
But the Twin Ports drop-in — he arrives in Duluth but quickly heads to Wisconsin for the event at a waterfront brewery — also brings him to turf he won in 2020, where he has a pair of Democratic governors politically aligned with him and that are places he can’t afford to see his standing slip in this reelection year.
The Brooklyn Park Police Department partnered with Hennepin County and North Memorial Health to launch a mental health Alternative Response Team which consists of a social worker and a paramedic who can handle calls police officers may not need to respond to.
On a recent weekday, MPR News rode along as a social worker and paramedic waited for calls to come in. Here's what we learned.
In the coming weeks Electric Nation will deliver 10 Ford F-150 Lightning pickup trucks, and a Ford Mustang Mach E, all EVs, to six tribal fleets across the Red Lake Nation in Minnesota and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. Five other EVs will be delivered later.
The project’s total value is $13.4 million. The vehicles will be used by the Standing Rock Renewable Energy Power Authority, Red Lake Fisheries, Red Lake Agriculture Department, Grand River and Prairie Knights casinos.
What else we're watching:
Art Hounds: Love, dance and embroidery. Minnesota Opera’s “Elixir of Love,” “Untitled Night” dance on Silver Lake’s ice Saturday and an “Embroidering Red Wing” art show.
In Ojibwe tradition, snow on the ground means it’s sacred storytelling season. The Native News team talks about the seven grandfather teachings, seasonal storytelling and Native books with James Vukelich Kaagegaabaw, a speaker, digital creator and author of “The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfather Teachings.”
Legendary hockey town Warroad hosts 'Hockey Day Minnesota.' The small town of Warroad, long known as Hockey Town USA, will host thousands of hockey fans this week when it hosts the annual Hockey Day Minnesota event.
Listen: Afton artist puts portraits on envelopes in new exhibit. The Afton-Minnesota based artist John Kaul has a long history of collecting stamps, sending stamps and painting stamps and envelopes. He has a brand new exhibit at the Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis featuring some of the hundreds of portraits he’s painted directly onto mailing envelopes.
♨️ Welcome to the MPR Steam Stream! Your soundtrack to warm winter bliss. This year, MPR is bringing the ultimate winter Minnesota moment to the Sauna Village at Malcom Yards duringThe Great Northern Festival from Jan. 19 - Feb. 4! Join us to recharge, rejuvenate and celebrate Minnesota’s bold, creative winters.
