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There’s a slight chance of snow Wednesday. It should be dry and partly sunny with highs approaching zero and below this week, with another chance of snow Friday and Saturday. On Sunday we’ll see a high of -4.
Longtime St. John's teacher, leader chosen as new abbot
Rev. Douglas Mullin succeeds retiring Abbot John Klassen, who is credited with increasing transparency and accountability during the monastery's reckoning of sexual abuse by monks.
Authorities ID victims, suspected gunman in Cloquet motel shooting
Police in Cloquet on Wednesday released the names of the two victims and the alleged gunman who died in a shooting at a motel in the northern Minnesota city earlier this week.
The toll that tragedies like the deadly St. Paul house fire have on first responders
Jeff Ernewein is a photographer at KSTP-TV. He was also a firefighter for 12 years. He was one of the first journalists at the scene of last week’s St. Paul house fire.
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe annual event highlights priorities, progress and cannabis plans
Chief Executive Melanie Benjamin said 2023 was a year of progress for the central Minnesota-based tribe. Benjamin outlined band priorities for the coming year, including plans to open a cannabis growing facility.
Historic, all-woman St. Paul City Council sworn in and ready to work
The group of seven elected officials is majority women of color, and all the women on the council are under the age of 40, making them the city’s most racially diverse and youngest council ever.