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MPR News - By Kyra Miles, Regina Medina - 1/1/2026, 12:00 AM
When manager Nasrulah Mohamed got to Nokomis Day Care Center at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, he saw destruction. Mohamed says security footage shows that between 3 and 6 a.m. Tuesday, someone broke through a brick wall in the back of the center. Nokomis Center administrators say the suspects crawled through the hole they made and broke open office... more
MPR News - By The Associated Press - 12/27/2025, 3:15 AM
Phoenix Minnesota thrives in an era of bowl opt-outs, even when a national championship is out of reach. These Golden Gophers dig the postseason. more
MPR News - By The Associated Press, MPR News Staff - 12/27/2025, 2:22 AM
Minnesotan Will Zellers scored twice and added an assist as the United States beat Germany 6-3 in both teams’ opening game of the World Junior Championships on Friday in St. Paul. The U.S. is the two-time defending champion in the tournament. Zellers, from Maple Grove, scored twice in the second period at Grand Casino Arena, picking up... more
MPR News - By Hannah Yang - 12/27/2025, 12:16 AM
More than 150 people lined both sides of Riverfront Drive in Mankato on Friday morning. They waited to welcome the Dakota riders and runners back onto their homeland. Back onto the very same homeland they were exiled from more than a hundred years ago. As horses galloped, whinnied and snorted upon arrival, the crowds cheered for their... more
MPR News - By Chandra Colvin - 12/26/2025, 10:20 PM
Dozens of riders on horseback and travelers on foot arrived Friday morning at Reconciliation Park in Mankato. Last year, two rides marked the revival of the famous reconciliation ride, honoring the 38 Dakota men hanged in Mankato on Dec. 26, 1862. Two additional men were hanged at Fort Snelling in 1865. The rides begin in both South... more
MPR News - By Estelle Timar-Wilcox - 12/26/2025, 6:50 PM
One of few full-service grocery stores in north Minneapolis is temporarily closing this winter, citing financial challenges. It’s slated to reopen later next year with a new format. North Market will close in its current form on Feb. 1, according to an announcement from its nonprofit owner, Pillsbury United Communities. Leaders at the... more
MPR News - By Bill Chappell - 12/26/2025, 6:00 PM
Michael Stonebarger sorts young cannabis plants at a marijuana farm in Grandview, Mo., in 2022. President Trump set the process in motion to ease federal restrictions on marijuana. But his order doesn't automatically revoke laws targeting marijuana, which remains illegal to transport over state lines. President Donald Trump's... more
MPR News - By Anna Maria Barry-Jester - 12/26/2025, 5:38 PM
In August, I traveled to Kakuma, Kenya, to try to understand what happened when the U.S. cut off food to the world’s third-largest refugee camp. Soon after President Donald Trump froze foreign aid on his first day in office, my colleague Brett Murphy and I began hearing from government experts. We learned that despite explicit promises... more
MPR News - By Estelle Timar-Wilcox - 12/26/2025, 3:05 PM
Even more so than usual, Minnesota is the center of the hockey universe for the next couple of weeks. The puck drops Friday on the International Ice Hockey Federation’s World Junior Championship, taking place in the Twin Cities. Ten countries have sent teams to Minnesota, including some of the best under-20 men’s hockey players in the... more
MPR News - By Joel Rose - 12/26/2025, 1:51 PM
This year Alaska Airlines joined the long list of airlines forced to ground their planes because of IT outages. Tony Scott had already boarded his flight from Seattle to Dallas back in July when his problems started. It was about 8 p.m. on a Sunday night when the flight crew asked the passengers to get off the plane. By the next day,... more