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Stories from June 4, 2024

Crossing into Canada this summer? A possible border agent strike could disrupt your plans

Crossing into Canada this summer? A possible border agent strike could disrupt your plans

Thousands of Canadian border agents are prepared to strike if they can’t reach a deal on a new union contract. It would disrupt a busy summer travel season and billions in goods and services that cross the border between Minnesota and Canada.
by Emily Bright and Lukas Levin

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A new marijuana dispensary opening this week will be the closest to the Twin Cities

A new marijuana dispensary opening this week will be the closest to the Twin Cities

A new adult-use cannabis dispensary opens Thursday. It’s called The Sweetest Grass, and it will now be the closest dispensary to the Twin Cities metro. It’s 182 miles or a little more than 3 hours from downtown Minneapolis to Walker, just west of Leech Lake in Cass County.
by Clay Masters

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Agreement signed to expand White Earth Nation's tribal access to Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge

The family of a man shot and killed last summer by a Minnesota state trooper are criticizing the decision to drop murder and manslaughter charges against the officer. And the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the White Earth Nation have signed an agreement to expand tribal access to the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge.
by Emily Reese

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Smith Foundry to partially shut down operations in settlement with federal regulators

Smith Foundry to partially shut down operations in settlement with federal regulators

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it has reached a settlement with Smith Foundry, located in Minneapolis’ East Phillips neighborhood. The foundry, owned by Zynik Capital, has a one-year deadline to shut down its furnace and casting processes, which regulators say will drastically reduce emissions.
by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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Ricky Cobb II family criticizes Moriarty’s decision to drop charges against Londregan

Ricky Cobb II family criticizes Moriarty’s decision to drop charges against Londregan

The mother and brother of Ricky Cobb II say they still want justice and want to see the troopers involved in his death prosecuted by federal authorities after Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty dropped the case.
by Jon Collins

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‘Something we’ve never seen before’: Minnesota emergency experts aid Iowans hit by tornadoes

‘Something we’ve never seen before’: Minnesota emergency experts aid Iowans hit by tornadoes

Minnesota first responders and emergency management experts are returning home in waves after lending their time to the community of Greenfield, Iowa, where an EF4 tornado killed four people, injured dozens more and wrecked more than 200 homes.
by Emily Bright and Gracie Stockton

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Severe thunderstorm watch until 8 p.m. includes far western Twin Cities

Severe thunderstorm watch until 8 p.m. includes far western Twin Cities

A line of storms with the potential for damaging winds greater than 60 mph and hail larger than 1 inch in diameter will sweep through from west to east Tuesday afternoon and evening and most likely move through the Twin Cities region between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.
by Paul Huttner

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St. Paul schools turn towards geothermal energy as Minnesota‘s climate shifts

St. Paul schools turn towards geothermal energy as Minnesota‘s climate shifts

School years in Minnesota can be hot and muggy on either end and freezing in the middle. A high school on the east side of St. Paul wrapped up its first year with a new heating and cooling system to combat climate change that draws energy from the ground.
by Nina Moini and Alanna Elder

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Teens and young adults are at risk of hearing loss throughout their lives. The culprit? Earbuds

Teens and young adults are at risk of hearing loss throughout their lives. The culprit? Earbuds

The World Health Organization says more than 1 billion teens and young adults are at risk of permanent hearing loss due to “unsafe listening practices.” Those unsafe habits are made up largely from the rise of daily earbud use.
by Nina Moini and Ellen Finn

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Catholic Charities CEO Michael Goar on the importance of home

Catholic Charities CEO Michael Goar on the importance of home

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with Catholic Charities president and CEO Michael Goar about his remarkable journey from an orphanage in South Korea to leading a nonprofit organization that provides services and shelter to people experiencing homelessness.
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Feeding Our Future juror offered bag stuffed with cash. Criticism continues in dropped trooper case

All seven defendants in the Feeding Our Future trial were in custody Monday night after someone dropped off a bag of cash at a juror's home on Sunday. And the defense attorney in the case against Minnesota state trooper Ryan Londregan said he’s surprised Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty pursued the case in the first place.
by Elena See

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Step aside BMI, body composition tests are on the rise. Here's what to know

Step aside BMI, body composition tests are on the rise. Here's what to know

If you dread getting on a scale to calculate your body mass index, there’s a good reason to ignore the measure. Body composition tests are an increasingly popular way to gauge health. Here’s why they're better than BMI.
by Allison Aubrey

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Cavaliers to interview Timberwolves assistant Micah Nori for head coaching vacancy, AP source says

Cavaliers to interview Timberwolves assistant Micah Nori for head coaching vacancy, AP source says

A person familiar with the meeting tells The Associated Press that the Cleveland Cavaliers will interview Timberwolves assistant Micah Nori for their head coaching vacancy in the next few days. 
by The Associated Press

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Inside the factory where a key Boeing supplier builds the fuselage for the 737

Inside the factory where a key Boeing supplier builds the fuselage for the 737

As Boeing works to improve quality, it’s in talks to buy one of its key suppliers. NPR spoke to workers at the Spirit AeroSystems factory in Wichita, Kansas that builds the fuselage for the 737.
by Joel Rose

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Rural U.S. health care is in a crisis. We went to a Georgia town to see how people there experience it

Rural U.S. health care is in a crisis. We went to a Georgia town to see how people there experience it

Rural health care in the U.S. is facing a crisis. We visited a town in Georgia to see how some people are getting health care and to hear from providers about what they need to fix it.
by Obed Manuel, A Martinez, Milton Guevara and Adam Bearne

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In New York Mills, the Great American Think-Off finalists debate to understand, not to win

In New York Mills, the Great American Think-Off finalists debate to understand, not to win

For more than 30 years, the northwest Minnesota town of New York Mills has hosted the Great American Think-Off, a debate of big ideas between ordinary people. Contestants say it’s a model for civic discourse in polarized times.
by Catharine Richert

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Jury selected in Hunter Biden gun trial

Jury selected in Hunter Biden gun trial

The trial, which opens Monday in federal court in Delaware with jury selection, is the first of two cases brought by Justice Department special counsel David Weiss against the president’s son.
by Ryan Lucas

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