Minnesota Now: June 3, 2026
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Minnesota's hospitality and leisure businesses lost more than 4,000 jobs and more than $70 million in wages during this winter's surge of federal immigration agents. We learn about the latest the ongoing impacts of “Operation Metro Surge.”
Millions of people in Somalia are facing hunger as the country faces what experts have called its worst drought year on record. A Minnesota-based organization is working to provide relief.
And a St. Paul theater where renowned playwright August Wilson began his career is putting on one of his earliest works.
Plus, Minnesota was once covered by tall grass, but few such prairies remain. Minnesota Now took a visit to the Bluestem Prairie in the Fargo-Moorhead area to learn what it takes to preserve this landscape.
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