Governor Tim Walz is calling in reinforcements from the Department of Defense. Because the surge in COVID cases is overwhelming the staff at some hospitals, the department of Defense is sending in emergency medical workers for the Hennepin County Medical Center and Centra Care, which runs the ...

If you have been following the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old charged with killing two people and wounding a third in the Kenosha, Wis., demonstrations last year, you have to feel for the jury given the task of deciding his guilt or innocence. There’s no doubt that Rittenhouse, ...

Minnesota is undergoing what health officials call a “blizzard” of COVID cases. Minnesota’s new rate of coronavirus infections has been the worst in the nation over the past seven days, and according to federal data quoted in a Star Tribune report. The surge has hospitals in the state ...

The Glasgow Climate Summit ended this weekend with a compromise agreement on what to do about global warming. The world leaders and negotiators who drew up the plan are hailing it as a chance to keep the earth’s climte from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, but scientists working with the ...

The population is growing and the climate is changing, and both of those things will have a big impact on the future of agriculture and food production. Farmers — some of them right here in Central Minnesota — are working on solutions to ensure the land they farm now will be healthy and ...

Learn to Skate The joint Fairmont Youth Hockey Association and Fairmont CER program, Learn to Skate, is an excellent way to teach youth the fundamentals of skating. Every year dozens of children go through the program and it’s great to see the continued support from parents and the ...