Minnesota Midday: Weather Through Election Day, St. Paul Encampment Lead Test and Hermantown Data Center Vote

Minnesota gets sunny, cooler Thursday; rain returns by Election Day

Morning clouds give way to afternoon sunshine across Minnesota on Thursday, with Twin Cities highs in the mid to upper 50s and 40s in the far north. Friday stays dry with highs in the 50s, Halloween brings spotty light showers, Sunday is the warmest day…

✔ Sources: FOX 9, CBS Minnesota

St. Paul encampment soil tests show lead at triple the health threshold

Soil samples from St. Paul's largest homeless encampment, at Randolph Avenue and Shepard Road, showed lead at 646 parts per million at the center and 355 along the main pathway, according to MinnPost-commissioned testing by a University of Minnesota…

✔ Sources: MPR News (MinnPost), CBS Minnesota (MinnPost/AP)

Hermantown Google data center vote rescheduled after protests shut down meeting

Protesters packed the Hermantown City Council chambers Monday night and chanted for about two hours, so the council could not take up Google data center agreements. Police declared an unlawful assembly and gave everyone ten minutes to leave; there were no…

✔ Sources: MPR News, KSTP, CBS Minnesota

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