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Lifestyle

How to handle a heat wave: Safety tips and ways to stay cool

How to handle a heat wave: Safety tips and ways to stay cool

The heat wave hitting Minnesota continues on into this week. Here’s what you need to know about the dangers of extreme heat and some tips for staying cool.
by Sara Porter

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Traveling this summer? Here’s what you need to know about getting away in a post-pandemic world

Traveling this summer? Here’s what you need to know about getting away in a post-pandemic world

After a year of staying at home due to COVID-19, vaccinated Americans are eager to hit the road again. But travel has changed since pre-pandemic days, and experts say many of those changes — for better or worse — are here to stay.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Your summer entertainment to-do list: bike and kayak tours, live music and more

Your summer entertainment to-do list: bike and kayak tours, live music and more

As our masks come off and the sun comes out, we're planning our post-pandemic summer. Host Angela Davis asked tour guides and a couple of hosts from The Current for their recommendations for things to do and see.
by Angela Davis and Susan Davis

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Appetites: Pandemic coffee trends open door for new business venture

Appetites: Pandemic coffee trends open door for new business venture

As Americans adjusted to life at home during the pandemic, they also changed many of their daily habits — including how and where they drink their coffee. It was that transition that caught the eye of Yair and Sally Carvajalino, the owners of Norte Café, an online store that sells coffee from Yair’s home country of Colombia.
by Tom Crann and Lindsay Guentzel

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Friendship, health, community: Twin Cities Latino cyclists on a roll

Friendship, health, community: Twin Cities Latino cyclists on a roll

Latino Social Biking is a Twin Cities group helping Latino people connect, get healthy and get past the isolation and sedentary influences of the pandemic. MPR News recently tagged along for a ride.
by Kathryn Styer Martinez

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It's back to catch-release only for Mille Lacs walleye starting Tuesday

It's back to catch-release only for Mille Lacs walleye starting Tuesday

For the past several years, anglers haven't been able to keep walleye they catch on Mille Lacs during the summer. This spring, anglers have been able to keep one walleye of a certain size. But that's ending for the summer.
by Kirsti Marohn

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Risky, impatient climbers bring danger to Alaska's Denali

Risky, impatient climbers bring danger to Alaska's Denali

Rangers who keep an eye on North America's highest mountain peak say impatient and inexperienced climbers are taking more risks and endangering themselves and other climbers after a year off because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
by The Associated Press

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