In nearby Stewartville, roofs and siding ripped off of homes. Photos by Marissa Ding for MPR News.

Video shared with @mprnews.org of tornado damage on Marion Rd in SE Rochester. This home completely destroyed. No word yet on injuries.

BREAKING: Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarity is bringing the first charges against a federal officer stemming from Operation Metro Surge.
Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. faces two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon after he pulled a gun on Hwy. 62 on a driver and passenger.
Charges here:

Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis ...

🧵 Everyone’s talking about the bathhouse ban in Minneapolis right now — but why did they actually close? Sources say bc increased police surveillance, a fear of AIDS and gentrification. In this deep dive I talk to all the key players about how closing them likely did more harm than good.

Jacob Frey: The 100 Most Influential People of 2026 Find out why Jacob Frey is on this year’s list

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is on the TIME 100 list for 2026.
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At least 3 tornadoes hit southern Minnesota Tuesday evening NWS survey teams found at least 3 tornadoes. Dozens of damaging hail reports across many locations in southern Minnesota Monday.

NWS survey teams found evidence that 3 tornadoes skipped across southern Minnesota Tuesday evening. 🌪️🌪️🌪️
Thankfully they were weak and in mostly open areas.
But there were dozens of damaging hail reports.
#mnwx
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The Lowry in Uptown is closing after 15 years, partially blaming it on Hennepin Ave construction which took place over 2 years.

Tornado on the ground near Amboy, MN. That’s Blue Earth County, south of Mankato. Video by MPR’s own @benjovland.bsky.social

Sixteen hosts and servers will end their employment today, a representative for workers' rights nonprofit CTUL said.

“Some of the workers that we organize with received the email when they were working on Friday, which is just so horrible and disrespectful."

BREAKING: Michelin stars coming to Minneapolis and Milwaukee: news conference at 9am CT in Milwaukee - i teased this in my Friday substack. Meet Minneapolis is in Milwaukee for the news, typically tourism boards pay millions over 3 years for this. It’s a big deal for restaurants.

Children’s Minnesota to resume all gender health program services Children’s Minnesota paused its gender health services in February, but a ruling in March overturned an attempt to restrict gender-affirming care.

In February, Children’s Minnesota announced the temporary pause on prescribing puberty-suppressing medications and pubertal hormones to patients under the age of 18 in its Gender Health Program for Children.

Minneapolis releases video that undermines ICE claims about non-fatal shooting Video released Monday by the city of Minneapolis appears to further undermine the federal government’s initial claims that on the night of Jan. 14, an agent was attacked by three men and beaten with a...

Although the video is dark, it shows Julio Sosa-Celis drop the shovel as Alfredo Aljorna approached. When Aljorna slipped, an ICE agent jumped on him.

Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account

"The video contradicts the agent’s claim that three assailants had beaten him with a shovel and broom for roughly three minutes before he opened fire. Instead, the confrontation depicted in the video lasts about 12 seconds and shows two men struggling with the agent." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

Half of those arrested by federal agents in Minnesota this winter have already been deported The federal government moved at a rapid pace to deport nearly 1,700 people picked up during a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota this winter, according to data analyzed by APM Reports and M...

About 43 percent of the people deported from Minnesota self-deported.

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Lawyer says government trying to detain Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, again A Department of Justice attorney filed a notice of appeal Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas San Antonio Division. An attorney for the family suspects the governmen...

The DOJ filed a notice today that they plan to appeal a judge's decision to release Liam and his father from the Dilley detention center in Texas.
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The Gillyweeds saga: A fake band, a fake plane crash and a real game blur reality An alternate reality game about a fictional Minnesota band spilled into real life when a staged plane crash announcement reached tens of thousands of unsuspecting social media followers, prompting gen...

The Gillyweeds Facebook page had originally been a page titled “Minnesota,” which Pitman started over a decade ago. It had built up about 60,000 followers.
“I changed the title of that to The Gillyweeds,” Pitman says. “That was probably ill-advised.”
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Data shows three-quarters of ICE arrestees in Minnesota had no criminal record The new data shows fewer than one-quarter of those arrested by immigration agents in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge had a criminal conviction on their record. A little more than 13 percent of ...

New ICE data from Dec-Mar in Minnesota:
-More than 3,700 arrested
-Fewer than 25% of those arrested had a criminal conviction on their record
-More than 25% of the arrestees came from Ecuador. Just 106 people from Somalia were arrested during the operation
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Rep. Hudson, was also impaired and in possession of a 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun in his waistband, which police confiscated for safe keeping.
In the rear of the car, police found a bottle of alcohol in a child’s car seat. Hudson said it was his bottle, according to the Engen arrest report.

The B Line headed to St. Paul was so packed to the brim with protesters, that no one was able to get on.

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State Rep. Dan Wolgamott arrested for DWI The St. Cloud DFLer was arrested by a State Patrol officer Friday and booked on suspicion of impaired driving.

Rep. Dan Wolgamott (D-St. Cloud), the democratic candidate for State Auditor also got a DWI while in office.

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🤦🏻‍♀️yes, my bad. White Bear Township.

You’re right. I conflated the St. Paul field office with the state. It’s 150 for the office, which does work across the Midwest.
Though in this filing it does specifically say 500 in the Twin Cities.

The normal DHS footprint in Minnesota is 150 federal officers.
On February 25, officials said in a court filing that there would be “approximately 300 agents on detail to the St. Paul Field Office by March 2026.”
Hard to confirm actual numbers, besides these court filings.

In a new court filing as part of an ongoing lawsuit against ICE actions in Minnesota, DHS says nearly 500 officers remain in the Twin Cities metro.

A Capitol staffer posted yesterday a photo of him drinking at 2:30 pm in the afternoon. The House floor was in session
at 3:30 pm until after 9:00 pm.

Rep. Elliot Engen (R-White Bear Lake) and candidate for State Auditor was arrested early this morning for a DWI. His BAC was .13.

Complaint – #1 in STATE OF MINNESOTA v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01007) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ADCDC-12317154) filed by STATE OF MINNESOTA, DREW EVANS, MARY F. MORIARTY. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1 - DHS Touhy Demand re: Good, #...

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Hennepin Co. Attorney, AG and BCA filing a lawsuit against DOJ/DHS for denying access to evidence in the cases of Renee Good, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis and Alex Pretti. Examples include:
-Good's car which remains shrink-wrapped in FBI storage
-Pretti's phone which likely was recording when he was shot