Stories from June 7, 2026

Heavy rains and flash flooding with slow moving storms
The calm weather won't last long as heat, humidity and multiple rounds of thunderstorms return to Minnesota over the next several days.
Vampires, literary monsters and a cake: The Tony Awards offer a number of intriguing, possible wins
Twenty-four Broadway shows will hope to nab at least one win Sunday across the 26 Tony categories, which can mean the difference between keeping the doors open and pulling down the curtain.
4 takeaways from the U.S. men's final tune-up games before the World Cup
The U.S. men's national team chose to play a pair of highly-ranked, super competitive teams in the final lead-up to the World Cup: Senegal and Germany. The matches showed the U.S. is ready.
Mille Lacs walleye return to same ‘hot spots’ to spawn, protections could be key to their success
The central Minnesota lake’s walleye population has declined in recent decades, and researchers have tried to figure out why. The latest study suggests protecting certain places in the lake where walleyes prefer to reproduce could boost their success.