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‘Top of their game’: PWHL Minnesota coach lauds team, reflects on season
The Professional Women’s Hockey League Minnesota team is gearing up for Game 3 in a best-of-five series Friday night, skating against Boston for the inaugural Walter Cup. Each team, fourth and third seed respectively, has a win under its belt.
Native students at Hinckley-Finlayson High School to host powwow after graduation
After their request to have a tribal drum group perform at the Hinckley-Finlayson High School’s graduation was denied, Native American students now plan to host a powwow in the school parking lot after Friday’s ceremony.
Feel like the restaurant industry is failing? It may just be moving
The gut punch of losing a favorite dinner spot and the constant drum beat of restaurant closure news can make it feel like the industry isn’t doing well. But a new report suggests that might not be entirely true.
Weekend of George Floyd memorials begins with prayer service
Faith leaders from local churches, mosques, and synagogues gathered in downtown Minneapolis on Friday for a morning of prayers. They opened a weekend of events marking the day that George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police four years ago Saturday.
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America’s food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died of cancer.
The thrill is gone: Como Park corpse flower closes, ending bloom early
People can still visit the flower and view it on the livestream until 6 p.m. Friday, but the flower has finished blooming and the smell has faded, the park said.
Norfolk Southern will pay $15 million fine as part of federal settlement over Ohio derailment
Residents were generally underwhelmed by the deal the Environmental Protection Agency and Justice Department announced Thursday, two days after a federal judge signed off on the railroad’s $600 million class action settlement with residents.
More severe weather forecast in Midwest as Iowa residents clean up tornado damage
Residents of the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, are working to clean up days after a destructive tornado ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute, took the lives of four residents and injured dozens more.