Here's the latest news from across the state to start your day.
WEATHER
🌧️ Our soggy system lingers Wednesday with showers becoming more scattered and generally lighter. Temperatures will be cool again and rain showers should taper off completely Wednesday evening and overnight.
⛅ Clouds break up overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning leading to partly cloudy skies Thursday and Friday. That will allow temperatures to pop back up into the 60s across the state.
Five years after George Floyd’s killing set off nights of destruction, vacant lots and broken buildings remain along Lake Street and other Minneapolis business districts. Some business owners say money woes and city zoning rules have made it hard to rebuild.
The wildfires that have scorched 45 square miles of forest in northern Minnesota were driven by unusually hot, dry weather and fierce winds. But a native insect called the spruce budworm also played a key role in creating a forest primed with flammable fuel to feed a raging wildfire after it has killed trees across more than 2,000 square miles of northern Minnesota forests.
In 2021, Chenue Her made history by becoming the first Hmong male news anchor in the U.S. when he joined “Good Morning Iowa” in Des Moines. In 2024, Her made a homecoming to Minnesota when he joined the anchor desk at FOX 9.
🏒 Emily Clark’s OT goal lifts Charge over Frost 2-1 in final series opener. With the win, the Charge take a 1-0 lead in the Professional Women’s Hockey League best-of-five championship series for the Walter Cup. Game 2 is Thursday in Ottawa.
🏀 Rested Timberwolves look listless in 114-88 loss to Thunder in Game 1 of Western Conference finals. Minnesota hadn’t played in nearly a week and it was the Timberwolves who lacked energy as the Thunder rolled to a 114-88 victory in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals on Tuesday night.
🛒 Target sales fall sharply in 1st quarter and retailer warns they will slip for all of 2025. Sales at Target fell more than expected in the first quarter and the retailer warned they will slip this year as consumers, worried over the impact of tariffs, pull back on spending.