Genetically modified organisms could become the newest recruits in Minnesota’s long and largely losing battle against invasive species. Researchers experimenting now know they’ll need to answer questions about safety.

🏫 Show-and-tell: How Montevideo schools convinced voters to increase taxes after failing 3 times. Big changes are coming to the schools in the small central Minnesota city of Montevideo after voters passed a $42 million bond referendum earlier this year. The money will be used to fix up and add onto the aging school buildings.

💵 Man indicted for fraud and money laundering in Feeding Our Future scheme. This is the 81st indictment in Minnesota’s most high-profile fraud probe.

🚧 After 4 businesses close, Rochester considers $500K to help those hurt by construction. Four shops and restaurants have closed so far this year on Second Street, two of them just this past week. And many more say they’re struggling to hang on.

🏥 Minnesota family stuck without care after thousands of immigrants lose Medicaid coverage. A Twin Cities family says their mother could soon be left without care for a brain injury, after Medicaid coverage ended for thousands of Minnesota immigrants. Advocates and government officials are scrambling to find care for hundreds of people with high needs who have been left uninsured.

⚡ Ellison: Google’s Pine Island data center could cost Minnesotans millions for electricity. Attorney General Keith Ellison says that Google's agreement with Xcel Energy to power a huge, hyperscale data center in Pine Island could leave Xcel's other customers on the hook for millions of dollars in extra costs. 

🔧 These 4 products voted coolest things made in Minnesota. The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce’s Coolest Thing Made in Minnesota contest will conclude Tuesday after a final public vote.

❤️‍🩹 New Indigenous art and wellness center in Minneapolis provides more space, healing. Indigenous Peoples Task Force opened a new $12 million, 12,000-square-foot center in south Minneapolis. The space provides a permanent, larger home for its health, environmental education, arts and theater programs.

🏈 Costs add up quickly for Vikings fans, who spend hundreds to even thousands on the team each year. The NFL generates billions of dollars each year. How much are Vikings fans spending each game?

🏃🏻‍♂️ Marathon fever: As runners prep for Twin Cities race, 2027 Grandma's Marathon sells out. Registration for the Grandma’s half-marathon filled up in under an hour. The 26.2 mile race sold out in under three hours.

⚖️ Family of man killed at Minneapolis mental health facility calls for justice. The family of the 23-year-old man killed in Monday’s attack at a Minneapolis residential treatment facility is calling for accountability and justice.

🧹 Forget the broom at home: These Minnesota witches prefer to be on the lake. At least four “witch paddles” are taking place in Minnesota over the next few weeks. Guests will don their witchiest gear and take to the open water to celebrate womanhood and Halloween.

🌡️ New novel set in Minneapolis imagines compassion during climate disaster. Kawai Strong Washburn's propulsive new novel “The Names of the New World” brings tornadoes to Minneapolis. That storm throws together three strangers whose lives will become entangled over the next 25 years.

🚨 Two injured in shooting outside Eden Prairie High School homecoming football game. Eden Prairie police said that the shooting is believed to have been targeted — and that neither victim was a student at Eden Prairie or Minnetonka schools. The shooting remains under investigation, with no arrests at last report.

📱 U.S. appeals court blocks Minnesota law barring 'nudified' photos in XAI lawsuit. A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked Minnesota’s ban on AI-generated fake nude images after Elon Musk’s xAI challenged the law as unconstitutional.

🍂 Photos: Fall colors popping in northern half of Minnesota, north of I-94. While things got off to a slightly later start, we have largely caught up to typical timing in the last five days. With cold mornings all across the state, that gets the internal chemicals in leaves going.

🥬 Minnesota lettuce grower Revol Greens may remain open as it postpones planned closure, layoffs. The lettuce grower told state regulators in August that it planned to permanently close its facility Oct. 4 and lay off nearly 100 employees, but in a new filing with the state this week, the company said it is postponing the closure and that it hopes to continue operations.

📖 ‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security. The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their families together.