Minnesota had a good weekend with the COVID-19 news. Active cases are down to 5,720, our lowest point since mid-September. The number of hospitalized patients is down, and the number of new hospitalizations is falling. No new deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in the state on Monday. Lyon ...

Attitudes in America toward police forces and police tactics have been mixed and confusing in the past year. So it has been in Minneapolis this past year. Since the killing of George Floyd a year ago, there has been a push to defund the police, to dissolve the police force and replace it ...

Graduation season is upon us, and the 2020-21 school year is coming to a close. This has been a school year like few others, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There was some wonder at the beginning of the year how it would work to bring hundreds of students together in classrooms at a time when ...

When the police scanner blares out in the newsroom, it usually means somebody needs help. That help comes from various agencies such as law enforcement and firefighters. The 46th annual National EMS Week (May 16-22) reminds us the important role North Memorial Ambulance fulfills in the ...

When a mob of Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, trying to stop the members of Congress as they tried to validate the results of the November presidential election, it was an act of insurrection unlike anything since the Civil War. Now, as some members of Congress try to ...

If it wasn’t for deadlines, some things would never get done at all. It’s true in newspapers, and it’s true in government as well. State leaders agreed early Monday morning on a $52 billion budget plan, hours before the scheduled end of the legislative session. By having a May 17 ...