Stories from April 15, 2026

Understanding addiction and recovery
Coming up at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks about how some people who have lived with addiction support others in recovery.
‘I’m still heartbroken’: Sam Nordquist’s family struggles to make sense of his death
Sam Nordquist of Oakdale traveled to New York state to meet the woman of his dreams. Nearly five months later, his body was found in a farmer’s field in a rural area. State investigators say he was held against his will for about a month in his girlfriend’s apartment.
As Minnesota lawmakers work to stop grooming in schools, a question lingers: What is grooming?
State lawmakers are looking at measures to prevent grooming of children by adults in schools and other institutions. Experts say understanding what grooming is and isn’t is the first step to ending this damaging facet of child abuse.
Why this Minneapolis feminist art collective still matters 50 years later
A Minneapolis exhibition marks 50 years of WARM, a pioneering feminist art collective that created space for women artists and helped reshape the local and national art scenes.
Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out
Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis were an active part of downtown.