Minnesota’s COVID-19 data continues to show Minnesota on a hopeful, steady path in January following an awful November and December. A big challenge now appears to be the state’s ability to get vaccination shots into arms.

In the past few months, people who live along Duluth's Park Point spit have been picking up shredded aluminum cans — by the bagful — on the neighborhood's Lake Superior beach. The metal fragments were inadvertently deposited there last fall, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged sediment from the harbor to help build back the eroding beach.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources policy board narrowly refused Republican legislators' request Friday to implement a wolf hunt immediately, citing concerns that the department can't move that fast and Wisconsin's Native American tribes haven't been consulted as per treaty rights.

Lisa Deyo of Sweet Reads in Austin, Minnesota (across from the Spam Museum) recommended the murder mystery “The Devil’s Kettle” by fellow Austin-based writer J.J. Ollman. 

State health officials are now urging COVID-19 testing for children and college students who are returning to school. The announcement Thursday formally expands the list of who should seek a coronavirus test, and comes days after thousands of elementary school students began attending school in person for the first time in months.

President Joe Biden is taking executive action to provide a stopgap measure of financial relief to millions of Americans. Biden wants to get assistance flowing while Congress begins to consider the president’s much larger $1.9 trillion package to help those affected by the pandemic. 

Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday at age 87.

One winning ticket was sold in Michigan for Friday night's $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot, making it the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

The package includes legislation that would allow businesses with COVID-19 safety plans to reopen, shift authority to close schools from Democratic Gov. Tim Walz to local school boards, and limit other emergency powers from the governor.

A marijuana industry activist who was temporarily living in Minnesota has been charged with threatening a member of Congress. 

The U.S. Postal Service is still digging out from under an avalanche of mail sent over the holidays. Plus, the system has been strained by the impact of COVID-19 and on its workflow and workforce.

White supremacists are building international networks to spread their violent ideology. Efforts at transatlantic counterterrorism cooperation hit an obstacle: the politics of the Trump administration.

Minnesota consistently lands on lists of states with the best health care. But if you’re Indigenous or a person of color, you’re not included in the high marks the state receives in metrics like health care access or public health outcomes. Join MPR News host Angela Davis for our latest In Focus event, a conversation with advocates and health care providers working to address racial disparities in health care.

Corine Dehabey runs a group that helps resettle refugees in Toledo, Ohio. She says her organization is "hopeful" and "excited" about Biden's plan to raise the number of refugees allowed into the U.S.

Snow will develop and move across much of Minnesota Saturday. The heaviest snow favors southern Minnesota from south of the Twin Cities to the Iowa border. This snow looks lighter and fluffier than our last system. 

After a year of planning, with plenty of curveballs along the way, Lt. Col. Thomas Chapeau calls it an “epic day.”

The two companies making COVID-19 vaccines each promised to deliver 100 million doses to the federal government by the end of March. So far, they appear to be running behind.

An Associated Press review of records finds that veterans of President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful campaign had key roles in the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.