☃️ Southern Minnesota could be in for more snow this weekend. A winter storm warning has been issued for southern Minnesota and a winter weather advisory has been issued for south-central Minnesota starting Friday night and running into Sunday morning.
❄️ Before the snow, take the chance to get outside. The Minnesota DNR is offering
free admission to state parks and recreation areas on Friday.
📻 Coming up at 11 a.m. — Big Books and Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
— Mary Lucia was an iconic DJ at MPR’s The Current for almost 20 years until a stalker unraveled her sense of safety and sense of self. With characteristic snark and honesty, Lucia shares her own story in the new memoir, “What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To.”
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After years of pushing for it, Mohamoud O. Mohamed has secured the first-ever Somali dance performance at a Timberwolves game, with the Somali Museum Dance Troupe set to take the Target Center floor for the Saturday pre-show performance.
More than three years after a previous span was first damaged in major flooding, a new $1 million footbridge has opened above High Falls over the Baptism River in a popular North Shore park.
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🍞 St. Cloud school district program offers free food to families facing insecurity, changes to benefits. About 70 percent of the school district’s students are living with food insecurity, meaning they can't afford or don't have access to enough nutritious food.
🍎 U of M to license new fruit varieties, including a sequel to the Honeycrisp apple. The University of Minnesota’s breeding program, famous for creating the Honeycrisp apple, has
launched six new varieties of apples and grapes that it’s licensing to growers.
❄️ Next snow event Friday night through Saturday from MSP southward. The next snow event is on the way to southern Minnesota Friday night through Saturday. This one will be a longer duration snow event
that will occur all day Saturday in most areas.
🚨 Here's what we know about the shooting of 2 National Guard members in D.C. Sarah Beckstrom, one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot Wednesday in Washington, D.C., has died. President Trump announced her death, adding that the second Guard member "is fighting for his life."
🎧 Ojibwe-language broadcast coming to Friday's Minnesota Wild game. Friday's home game against the Colorado Avalanche coincides with Native American Heritage Day, and the livestream is another step toward revitalizing Indigenous languages in the state.
🎧 Research shows wolf population changes follow trends in deer, not the other way around. Biologist Tom Gable leads the Voyageurs Wolf Project and joined MPR News guest host Chris Farrell with details on
how fluctuating deer and wolf populations impact one another.
🎧 How Rochester helps residents new and old prepare for winter. The Rochester public works department and other organizations have helped prepare newcomers and longtime residents for winter with an annual snow summit.
