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Anxious parents across Minnesota got welcome news this week about the state's plan to vaccinate children 5 to 11 years old against COVID-19, a move that could come as early as Nov. 4 after federal officials fully approve the Pfizer vaccine for kids.

The Minnesota senator was treated for breast cancer this year. She has bipartisan legislation that would encourage people to catch up on health screenings, which plummeted during the pandemic.

A task force that tried to reach a deal on hero pay for pandemic front-line workers adjourned without reaching a compromise. Instead, two plans for dividing up $250 million will be forwarded to the Legislature.

President Joe Biden is traveling to Capitol Hill to pitch House Democrats on a dramatically scaled back domestic policy package. It's now $1.75 trillion and without a paid family leave program and other priorities.

Medaria Arradondo on Wednesday spoke out strongly against a November ballot measure intended to remake his department, warning it wouldn’t fix relations between residents and the police and could do serious damage to a department already severely understaffed.

George Rabasa’s novel “Undressing Lavinia,” the story of a Mexican woman facing cancer in Minnesota, was so tough to get down on the page, he quit writing entirely. Then a chance glance on his computer gave the book and his writing a new lease on life.

Calling it a difficult decision, Todd Axtell said Wednesday in a Facebook post that he will not seek a second term as chief when his current contract ends in June.

Ananya Dance Theatre performs “Dastak: I Wish You Me” for an in-person audience at O’Shaughnessy in St. Paul. Other Art Hounds picks — a puppetry extravaganza that teaches Cherokee and a “private conversation” through mixed media in Fergus Falls.

Top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants are set to testify at a landmark House hearing Thursday as congressional Democrats investigate what they describe as a decadeslong, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming.

Did you know that it once snowed on Halloween in Minnesota? Whether you’ve heard the story once — or a million — times, you know Minnesotans love to rehash the record-breaking blizzard in great detail. It was a “perfect storm” for making memories.