MPR NewsMPR News
Catharine Richert

Catharine Richert

Correspondent

crichert@mpr.org

Catharine Richert is based in Rochester, Minn., and covers Southeast Minnesota for MPR News. She was previously on MPR's politics team, and has contributed to MPR's health care coverage. She lives in Rochester with her husband, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic, and their three children.

Recent Contributions

  • COVID-19 shots for infants, toddlers available in Minnesota this week
  • To tackle maternal health disparities, one MN insurer looks to doula care
  • ‘Summer of hunger’: Food shelves struggle as high demand, low supply collide
  • Minnesota among first states to get federally backed COVID 'test-to-treat' sites
  • Bikes and braids: How one school district is teaching life skills, too
  • Rochester confronts its segregated housing history, Mayo founders' role
  • GOP delegates weigh in as party holds state convention in Rochester
  • Rochester's Destination Medical Center plan moved ahead despite challenges
  • In year three of the pandemic, public health shifts its focus to COVID’s burden on hospitals
  • Tornado causes major damage in southern Minnesota community