A wildfire burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota is growing, leading authorities to close off a part of the wilderness northeast of Ely.

Research shows that veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder have higher rates of drug and alcohol use disorders, and higher rates of suicidal ideation. A new sober house in southern Minnesota will address those difficult challenges head on.

The Frost team celebrated the win with fans in downtown St. Paul Wednesday. The festivities included a parade, speeches, games, music and more.

Art hounds recommend a multimedia exhibition grappling with war and healing, an art-and-music night focused on human creativity over AI and a theatrical meditation on identity and gender, co-created by a Minneapolis father-daughter duo.

Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand’s sentencing Wednesday in federal court comes more than three years after a family of four from India froze to death while trying into the U.S. along a remote stretch of the Canadian border in a blizzard. 

MPR News visual journalist Ben Hovland lives minutes from where Minneapolis police killed George Floyd in 2020 and has spent the years since documenting the impact on his neighborhood.