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Five Minnesota chefs were announced Wednesday to be among the semifinalists at the annual James Beard Awards, one of the industry’s most prestigious honors. Café Cerés chef Shawn McKenzie received the state’s only national nod. McKenzie co-founded the restaurant with two locations in Minneapolis. McKenzie is also the executive pastry chef at Rustica Bakery, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

The Great Northern Festival in Minneapolis will present a sneak peek of a new documentary titled "40 Below: The World's Toughest Race." It features competitors from around the world in Minnesota's own infamously chilly ultramarathon, the Arrowhead 135. If there is such a thing as an ordinary ultramarathon — this...

This weekend the Minnesota Department of Health will close the remaining free, state-run COVID-19 testing sites: St. Paul Midway, Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, Brooklyn Park and Duluth. Although these sites are closing, Minnesota Commissioner of Health Dr. Brooke Cunningham emphasized in a press release announcing the closures that “COVID-19 tests will...

As fears of anti-Asian violence rise after 11 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Lunar New Year event in Monterey Park, Calif., local holiday celebrations in Minnesota are still pushing forward — albeit with more conversations on public safety. The tragedy near Los Angeles is a...

Ashwini Ramaswamy is a choreographer of Bharatanatyam dance — a form of Indian classical dance. But her new project includes a wide range of dance traditions. It is premiering at the Great Northern Festival this weekend in Minneapolis. Ramaswamy talked with Host Cathy Wurzer about the show. Use the...

Musicians in the Minnesota Opera Orchestra have authorized a strike. The members of the American Federation of Musicians Local 30-73 voted unanimously, according to a union statement. They've been working without a contract for six months. The players say management has cut their work by more than 40 percent and...

Xcel Energy plans to add a battery storage system at the site of its Sherco coal-fired power plant in central Minnesota. Xcel is partnering with Form Energy, a Massachusetts company, to install iron-air battery systems at two of its retiring coal plants: in Becker, Minn., and Pueblo, Colo. The systems are able to store energy for 100 hours, longer than a typical lithium battery.

A 50-year-old Red Wing woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a charge of second-degree murder in the death of a baby found on a Mississippi River beach nearly 20 years ago. Jennifer Lynn Matter was charged last year in the 2003 death of the newborn boy after DNA evidence identified her as the mother of that child, as well as a newborn girl, found dead several years earlier.

Authorities in White Bear Lake say a police officer was shot and wounded while trying to make an arrest on Tuesday night. A statement from police said the incident happened about 10 p.m., as officers were reportedly trying to arrest a person on the 3000 block of Karth Road — at a set of apartment complexes on the northwest corner of McKnight Road and Interstate 694, on the south edge of White Bear Lake.

A jury on Thursday convicted 30-year-old Cody Fohrenkam of second-degree intentional murder in last year’s killing of Deshaun Hill Jr., a 15-year old student and standout athlete at Minneapolis North Community High School. Jurors deliberated for about an hour before reaching a verdict. Prosecutors had alleged Fohrenkam fired the...

Despite opposition from neighborhood activists, the Minneapolis City Council voted Thursday to approve a contract to demolish the former Roof Depot site in south Minneapolis. Neighborhood residents have been pushing for the site to be used as an urban farm and community space, but the city has planned to build an expanded public works facility there.