What still needs to be done for the state budget

Temperatures will only drop down to just 78 degrees overnight. But the Twin Cities will get a little break tomorrow, with a chance of scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon that will cool things into the mid-80s in the late afternoon. That slightly cooler weather is expected to continue into Saturday. Find the latest on Updraft.

A surprisingly strong tax report from Minnesota finance officials probably won’t factor heavily into the final talks around a new state budget.

The Minneapolis City Council's public safety committee moved forward a resolution to provide police with $5 million dollars to pay for additional overtime. Police say the anticipated overtime partly makes up for a decline in the number of active officers since 2020.

Friday’s COVID-19 numbers show some of the most encouraging signs since the earliest months of the pandemic.

Minnesota's averaged 199 new cases a day over the past seven reporting days — the first time it’s fallen below 200 since April 2020. Five weeks ago, it topped 1,500 a day.