With rapid tests more accessible and new reporting requirements, public health officials say COVID case counts and positivity rates are less reliable measures of community spread. Instead, they’re looking at how the virus is impacting hospital capacity.

Minnesotans should hold off feeding their backyard birds for awhile and should also take steps to sanitize their feeders to help protect birds as avian flu circulates across the state, the head of the University of Minnesota Raptor Center tells MPR News.

The defensive move from Twitter is an attempt to fend off Musk's hostile takeover attempt of the social network.

Maplewood police on Wednesday released body camera video showing officers handcuffing four children between the ages of 10 and 16 while they were investigating a call about gunshots. The children’s parents are demanding an apology from police and are seeking changes to the way officers handle encounters with minors.

Witnesses said the motorcyclist had been behind a line of cars that were stopped behind a school bus, the driver then veered around those cars into the oncoming lane to pass.

More than 900 bodies of civilians were discovered in the Kyiv region following the withdrawal of Russian forces. That's according to the regional police chief, who spoke Friday.

Sunisa Lee delivered in Texas just as easily as she delivered in Tokyo. The reigning Olympic champion has guided Auburn to the team finals at the NCAA women’s gymnastics championships.

Frederick Gaudreau scored at 1:40 overtime after assisting on Kevin Fiala’s two regulation goals in the Minnesota Wild’s 3-2 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night.

Clashes broke out between Israeli police and Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa Mosque early Friday, with claims Israeli police entered in force shortly after early morning prayers.

General Aleksandr Dvornikov is infamous for his ruthlessness while leading Russia's intervention in Syria. Now he's heading Russia's war in Ukraine, signaling that the violence could intensify.

In the fight to get justice for his brother's murder, Terrence Floyd has turned to the unlikeliest corners to do just that: NFTs — or non-fungible tokens.

The U.S. is making the largest investment in history in the country's water system. In the rush to spend, some worry green projects will be overlooked.

Every year the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fields more than 90,000 phone calls and 25,000 emails with questions that run from the mundane to the wacky. A team of DNR workers hustles to answer them all, six days a week.

The variants — BA.2.12.1 and BA2.12.2 — have been detected in New York and other states as well as 5 other countries. One has a mutation that seems to give it an edge in evading the immune system.

Minneapolis Public Schools announced Thursday that it is dropping its mask requirement. The district will also discontinue contact tracing and will not send notifications to parents when their students are exposed to others in their schools who have contracted COVID-19. 

The Minneapolis City Council approved two lawsuit settlements filed by women injured by police officers who fired so-called ‘less-lethal’ weapons at them during 2020 protests.

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel claims that the commission "refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms to help ensure fair debates."

Allegations of bullying and intimidation as well as complaints about the distribution of more than a million dollars in donated funds have led to bitter conflict among Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants.