Minnesota’s newest COVID-19 numbers offer more evidence the disease is ebbing following a spring surge. But the push to get more Minnesota adults vaccinated continues to languish.

The 2011 storm killed two men, uprooted thousands of trees and damaged buildings. A strong effort has been made to reforest the north side of Minneapolis after the tornado, but tree growth takes time. And in the limited federal response, some see evidence of environmental racism.

State legislators have until July 1 to finish work on a state budget and avoid a government shutdown. Key leaders announced an agreement on budget numbers on the final day of the regular legislative session, and now it will take a special session to finish the work.

As he released $75 million in federal funding for schools across the state to provide summer learning opportunities, Gov. Tim Walz encouraged school districts to offer a variety of ways to reach students who may have fallen behind because of the pandemic.

Ten Minnesota cultural organizations including Theater Mu, Mizna and Juxtaposition Arts will each receive unrestricted grants of at least half a million dollars under a new philanthropic program announced Tuesday.

A wildfire burning in a remote section of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has grown substantially since it was discovered Monday.

The temporary security barrier around Minnesota’s state Capitol will be removed in a couple of weeks. The status of access to the building is still under discussion.

Tokyo-area hospitals "have their hands full," the Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association says in an open letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The group represents some 6,000 primary care doctors.

"This gap between rhetoric and action needs to close if we are to have a fighting chance" of reaching emissions goals, the head of the International Energy Agency says.

Brown was shot and killed in his car by Pasquotank County, N.C., sheriff's deputies as they arrived to carry out warrants last month. His family called his death an "execution."

For most people, more education leads to better health. Not so for Black men. Researchers say discrimination's power in harming their health may be more persistent than previously understood.

A birch bark scroll that Ojibwe people consider among their most important cultural items will be returning to the White Earth Nation after being held for decades by collectors. Experts say it's a small success in what is a constant struggle to find and reclaim culturally significant items taken from Indigenous people and sold among private collectors.

Researchers say the herd immunity threshold isn't the right finish line to end the pandemic. Instead, the public should just focus on getting as many people vaccinated as possible.

A strike launched from Gaza killed two Thai workers inside a packaging plant in southern Israel on Tuesday, police said, hours after Israeli airstrikes toppled a six-story building in the Palestinian territory that housed bookstores and educational centers.

A forthcoming report says Department of Homeland Security officials had the intelligence they needed to predict that the pro-Trump rally would become violent. What was missing was DHS telling the people who needed to know.

It's been a year since teachers were handed an unprecedented request: educate students in entirely new ways amid the backdrop of a pandemic. This week's story comes from a teacher in Nashville.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new guidance that it's safe for fully vaccinated people to go without masks, even indoors, has led to a confusing situation for businesses, which now have to decide what to do on their own.

At the center of the case was a man whose guns were confiscated from his home. Justice Clarence Thomas noted the recognition that officers perform many civic tasks but they're not open-ended.