The St. Paul Public Schools board decided 5-2 to close Galtier, Jackson, John A. Johnson, Parkway and L’Etoile du Nord lower campus schools by June 2022. They also voted to close Barack and Michelle Obama Elementary by the end of the 2022-23 school year. Two of these schools have no reopening plan, while others will close temporarily and reopen with different programming.
President Joe Biden used a visit to a Minnesota community college Tuesday to highlight how his $1 trillion infrastructure law will create jobs and help train workers — and to make the case for nearly $2 trillion more in spending.
A 5-year-old boy was shot and killed late Thursday night at a home in the northwest Twin Cities metro, in what authorities say appears to be an accident. A 13-year-old boy is in custody.
The Minnesota Vikings have sent psychologists to the home of defensive end Everson Griffen. They've been working with police on guiding Griffen through another alarming mental health situation.
Nearly four dozen doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists from the U.S. military are on the ground in Minnesota to ease the strain on the state’s health care system. Gov. Tim Walz asked the Defense Department for the help because hospitals across the state are beyond capacity caring for COVID-19 patients.
A north Minneapolis school decided to take a superhero approach to vaccinating children against COVID-19. Volunteers wore costumes from the “Black Panther” Marvel movie and, in at least some cases, distracted the 5- to 11-year-olds.
The newly renovated Dayton’s building in downtown Minneapolis reopened to the public Thursday. While the department store is long gone, the project’s developers revived an old Dayton’s tradition, the holiday display windows.
Katha Dance Theatre collaborates with J.D. Steele in a cross-cultural performance about equality. Also an appreciation for Minneapolis rock band Annie and the Bang Bang’s new record, and the Commonweal Theatre opens its run of “A Christmas Carol” with women playing the ghosts and Scrooge.
Minnesota winters are not kind to fruit, no matter how iconic they may be. The bright red cherry — which is in reality a 1,200-pound aluminum ball — will undergo its once-a-decade maintenance and repainting. It’s expected back in mid-January.