MPR News Update

Mark your calendar, Rock the Garden 2015 will take place June 20 and 21 at the green space next to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Tonight at 8 p.m. Central, President Barack Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union address. Follow along with MPR News and listen live on your computer, your mobile or your radio. Plus: Five things to watch in tonight's speech.
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King made several visits to Minnesota during his public life, defending nonviolent action in the Civil Rights movement and in Vietnam War protests. Today at noon on MPR News Presents and later on MPRnews.org, hear Vernon Jordan's keynote address at the annual King holiday breakfast at the Minneapolis Convention Center. (Federal holiday: What's opened; what's closed) | Today's weather