Have you gotten your updated COVID booster? State data shows likely not
Fall is in full swing now, and doctors say it's time for people to roll up their sleeves and get the updated COVID-19 booster shot.
Minnesota frontline worker payments of nearly $500 start going out this week
More than 1 million Minnesota workers will get bonus payments of nearly $500 starting this week, a thank-you gift from the state that arrives more than two years after the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Minnesota's COVID-19 grants invited fraud, but none found, audit finds
An audit of $200 million in grants doled out to health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic found weaknesses in Minnesota's processes but identified no waste or fraud.
Feeding Our Future: 47 people charged in $250M fraud scheme
The founder of Feeding Our Future and 46 others have been charged in what federal officials are calling the largest pandemic fraud in the country.
COVID-19 self-tests added to Minnesota’s notification system
Those who receive positive results from COVID-19 at-home self-tests will now be able to anonymously notify other users of Minnesota’s COVIDaware MN program about potential exposure.
COVID-19: 82% of children in Minnesota have already had it
The majority of children in Minnesota have already been infected with COVID-19, according to new data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
Confusion reported after more than 200k denied for frontline worker bonuses
Many workers have reported being confused with both the application and appeal process after the number of Minnesotans in line for a frontline worker bonuses this fall was much larger than state officials originally expected.
Most people infected with COVID-19 Omicron variant didn’t know it, study says
More than half of people who were likely infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant last fall didn’t know they had the virus, which could be why it spread so fast, a new study finds.
India Fest returns to St. Paul after break due to COVID-19 restrictions
After holding a slimmed down festival last year due to COVID-19 restrictions, India Fest will return to St. Paul this weekend.
Frontline worker bonus application periods ends, more than 1 million submitted
The amount of people who applied nearly doubles the state's initial estimate.
State Fair vendors face unique challenges of finding employees
In a tight job market, can State Fair vendors find enough workers to serve up all the food on a stick that fair goers have come to love?