All Things Considered

Many Minnesota schools have had reports of racist incidents in recent years. One district in North St. Paul is taking a new approach to addressing racism.

There’s been an explosion of interest in officer-wellness programs in Minnesota and across the country, including in one suburban Twin Cities police department.

Earlier this year, the state Legislature approved Duluth’s half-percent sales tax hike to help pay for road repair. It’s a revenue source more and more Minnesota cities are turning to for help with deteriorating streets.

Farmers' Almanac is predicting one heck of a winter. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is putting out a neutral forecast. And then there’s that blob in the Pacific Ocean that could influence weather patterns.

Abeer Syedah ate 50 slices of the Twin Cities’ most-recommended pizzas so you don’t have to (but will really want to).

Experts say combining developing drone technology and computer-controlled field sprayers could mean big reductions in pesticide use. By using drone-collected imagery to map weeds in a field, an herbicide can be applied only to those areas.

Many of the cases appear to be linked to illicit THC products, but medical officials say people should avoid all vaping products until investigations are complete.

Mayo Clinic is joining with Google on a partnership to use artificial intelligence to improve care of rare and complex diseases. The project pairs Mayo’s medical expertise and massive collection of patient histories with Google’s ability to organize and make use of vast amounts of data.

State investigators are still piecing together the chain of events that ended in police officers shooting a man in Brooklyn Center. Officers fired Tasers at him, but they ended up resorting to their firearms because the Tasers were “ineffective,” the BCA says. APM Reports’ Curtis Gilbert, who did an investigation on why Tasers are often unreliable, discusses Tasers’ role in fatal police shootings.

Brian Quinones was the ninth person to be fatally shot by police in Minnesota this year.