Headlines about the outbreak echo the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. But Minnesota Department of Health epidemiologist Leah Bauck tells MPR News it’s very different from COVID and hantavirus remains rare in Minnesota.

City officials in Owatonna say their police and fire stations are out of date and in disrepair. But their $65 million proposal to build new ones is getting pushback from residents who want a say in the process.

The Minnesota House of Representatives voted to approve a proposal to create an independent watchdog office aimed at preventing fraud and improving oversight of state government.

Federal investigators report that a pilot radioed “abort, abort” and started turning shortly after takeoff from Crystal Airport last month before the plane crashed, killing North Dakota lawmaker Liz Conmy and her partner.

Opera’s saddest clown, “Hollywood in the ceramics world,” Asian Phoenix Fest and a bank of art — find out more in this week’s MN Shortlist.

A conservative influencer is suing three people she says attacked her while she was reporting on an anti-ICE protest in the Twin Cities last month.