Jan. 5, 2022

Minneapolis and St. Paul are reinstituting mask mandates Thursday as COVID cases rise with the spread of the omicron variant.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter are ordering businesses and other establishments open to the public to require patrons, employees and visitors to wear face masks to help limit the spread of the coronavirus.

The requirements in Minneapolis include bars and restaurants, schools, recreational facilities and stores, among others. St. Paul's order includes all businesses with city licenses, which covers virtually any public or commercial establishment.

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Minnesota's Jan. 6 defendants include those charged with fighting police

A southern Minnesota man faces sentencing in April after admitting this week that he was part of a mob that pushed through a line of police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Daniel Johnson was the second Minnesotan convicted in the attack. Cases against a half dozen others are still pending.
Who said what when: A timeline of how the Jan. 6 attack unfolded

Things seem grim now. But America's COVID situation could get better in 6-8 weeks

In the face of rising COVID-19 cases, Dr. Bob Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco offers reasons to be hopeful about the pandemic's outlook in the months ahead.

St. Louis news anchor criticized for being 'very Asian'

Michelle Li, an anchor at KSDK-TV, received an outpouring of support from around the world after a viewer criticized her for “being very Asian” and told her to “keep her Korean to herself.”

School bus service disrupted in Mpls., St. Paul amid COVID, cold snap

Facing a dire driver shortage, Minneapolis and St. Paul school districts are asking parents to start planning alternative transportation for students.

MDH Commissioner Jan Malcolm on the state of COVID in Minnesota

Leading the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning has been state Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm. Host Cathy Wurzer checked in with the commissioner on the state of the pandemic as we enter 2022.

Arctic blast delivers subzero air once again

The weather maps look a lot like January.
Another arctic outbreak deepens across Minnesota through Friday. Temperatures and wind chills are already plummeting well below zero across our region.

Long-term care confronts the omicron wave

With omicron becoming the dominant COVID-19 variant, and cases again spiking, some in the long-term care industry are worried what another surge might mean for staffing at nursing homes.

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13 dead, including 7 children, in Philadelphia house

A large house fire in Philadelphia early Wednesday killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals, fire officials said.

Officials finally clear up crashes that kept drivers in freezing temperatures on I-95

Officials cleared a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in Virginia, south of the nation's capital, about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday that left travelers trapped in freezing temperatures after heavy snowfall contributed to spinouts and crashes 24 hours before.

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