The 31-year-old man who was fatally shot by a St. Paul police officer Sunday confronted the officer with a knife and ignored commands to drop it, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The BCA identified the officer as Steven Mattson, who has less than one year of service in the department.

Cities and counties around the country want alternatives to jail and emergency rooms for people in a mental health crisis. Some, including Ramsey and Hennepin counties, are turning to Forensic Assertive Community Treatment, or FACT, teams which help people find the services they need.

The Minnesota Department of Health says it has identified nearly a dozen people who attended the State Fair before they became ill. Early evidence suggests that contact with livestock is a likely factor behind the outbreak.

Fort Snelling State Park is the state’s busiest, with about a million day visitors every year. Extended flooding shut the park down for six months and covered parts of it with as much as 3 feet of silt this year. But it reopened Tuesday, just in time for the fall colors to start to turn.

Sander Vanocur, a television newsman who for decades covered momentous events from political campaigns to assassinations, the Vietnam War to the civil rights movement, has died, his son said Tuesday.

Dozens of people responded to an MPR News query about electric scooters, after a story on injuries related to them. Many complain about e-scooters blocking sidewalks and riders not wearing helmets.

Following the death of a California child from flu-related complications, Minnesota public health officials are renewing their annual call for people to get vaccinated.

Roberts, who joined the fledgling network in 1978, was a seasoned Washington insider who developed a distinctive voice as a reporter and commentator for both NPR and ABC News.

Drug use is especially frowned upon among followers of a faith that prohibits the use of mood-altering substances.

Hearing loss can be stressful, and stress can inflame the brain and increase the risk of developing dementia. Researchers want to know if prescribing hearing aids early can stave off dementia.

With summer winding down, Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he's looking ahead toward the 2020 legislative session, with plans to push proposals for making insulin affordable, reducing gun violence, clean energy and criminal justice reform.

Michael Hari's attorneys had argued that four counts against him should be dismissed, saying that Congress exceeded its authority when it enacted a statute that Hari is accused of violating.

The county board says they won’t be bound by the demands of a “special interest group” opposing immigrant detention.

Prosecutors in Dakota County have charged Gavin Patrick Meany, 38, with two counts of criminal sexual conduct.

Pentagon officials tell NPR that U.S. intelligence regards the activity as "circumstantial evidence" that Iran launched the strike from its own soil.

General Mills is voluntarily recalling 5-pound bags of Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose Flour with a better-if-used-by date of Sept. 6, 2020. The company said there have been no confirmed cases of illness and that it issued the recall as a precaution.

Similar threats have been made to the university in the recent past, including one in August and another in April.

Sarah Thomas of Colorado plunged into the record books with her 54-hour feat. She finished Tuesday and said she was stung in the face by a jellyfish in the process.