Is It Legal: How small businesses can get some big help

It's a fight for survival for Minnesota’s more than half a million small businesses. But starting Friday, new laws throw a lifeline.

Minnesota will identify nursing homes with COVID-19 cases as pandemic spreads to 47 facilities

As soon as Friday, Minnesota will begin identifying nursing homes and other facilities that have seen COVID-19 cases, as the coronavirus has now spread to 47 different care facilities.

Wisconsin school therapy dog connects with students through Facebook amid closures

Educators are facing all sorts of obstacles when it comes to distance learning, but a Wisconsin special education teacher is finding ways for her students to connect with her therapy dog Frannie. 

Minneapolis beaches and pools to remain closed this summer due to COVID-19

Minneapolis beaches and pools will not open this summer due to COVID-19 concerns, according to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

‘It hurts like hell’: Tennessee nurse with COVID-19 describes her symptoms as ‘worse than a gunshot’

“Stay at home… This is something you don’t want,” said Shareka Williams, a nurse at the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation & Healing nursing home in Tennessee, who is infected with the novel coronavirus.

Minnesota hospitals say they're losing $31 million a day amid coronavirus

Minnesota hospitals say they're hemorrhaging money even before the coronavirus pandemic peaks, and accuse state health officials of working too slowly to deliver needed funding.

How does Minnesota's stay-at-home order affect craft stores?

No doubt parents are desperate to pick up projects for their kids, so an arts and craft store seems like a pretty good go-to. 

University of Minnesota president proposes refunding student fees in light of COVID-19 pandemic

The University of Minnesota is considering refunding some student fees after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the university to move all classes online for the remainder of the spring semester and ask students not to return to campus if they had a safe place to go.  

Minneapolis Park Board opens parkways around Cedar Lake, Lake of the Isles to pedestrians

The Minneapolis Park Board approved resolutions Wednesday night to extend the parkway closures to vehicles around Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles and extending the closure of the West River Parkway all the way to Minnehaha Falls.

Disney will furlough employees starting April 19, company says

Disney announced on Thursday that they will begin furloughing their employees on April 19 due to the impacts they now face because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Minneapolis church lends location to Loaves and Fishes to provide free meals during COVID-19 crisis

For more than 30 years, Loaves and Fishes has been called Minnesota’s largest free restaurant. Now, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit that provides free meals to those in need is expanding.