❄️ Frigid Wednesday! It’s a rare day of below-normal temperatures with highs in the low 20s in the south to frigid single digits up north. Plus, get ready for the first smoke event of the year! Find out more on Updraft.
Friends, family, community leaders and a legion of law enforcement honored fallen officers Matthew Ruge and Paul Elmstrand and firefighter-paramedic Adam Finseth in a service filled with tears, humor, heartfelt stories and a solemn final ceremony.
Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.
Minnesota Zoo officials announced Tuesday that Kenai the brown bear has died at age 17. He was the largest of the zoo’s trio of brown bears, which also includes Haines and Sadie.
