Winona Clinic open as retreat from heat
WINONA, Minn. -- Winona Health invited anyone without access to mechanical cooling to spend [...]
Sunday forecast: Diminished air quality
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued an air quality alert [...]
Mayo trustees shake up clinic leadership
ROCHESTER, Minn. — In an unexpected move, the Mayo Clinic’s governing trustees voted to [...]
Coming soon to a Kwik Trip near you
LACROSSE, Wis. — The convenience store chain has hatched a mascot — a chicken [...]
Fountain’s utility chief fired as incompetent, negligent
FOUNTAIN, Minn. — The City Council voted 4-1 to fire the Fountain public works [...]
Mayo bookkeepers: Record 2025 revenue
ROCHESTER, Minn. — ‘Twas a very good year for Mayo. The Clinic’s year-end 2025 [...]
Measles in Minnesota: 12 new cases
ST. PAUL, Minn. —Already in the first two months of 2026, health officials have [...]
Winona doctor accused of patient misbehavior
WINONA, Minn. — A Winona Health obstetrician, who was hired in November, has been [...]
Mayo Clinic opens third Caribbean outpost
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic is opening a referral office in [...]
State enhances Medicaid fraud safeguards
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The state has launched a new system to intercept fraudulent [...]
Marriotts donate $100 million to Mayo
ROCHESTER, Minn. — An unusually large gift of 100 million was made by Marriott [...]
Rochester telethon nets $728,000
ROCHESTER, Minn. — A 20-hour telethon on television station KTTC raised $728,000 for cancer [...]
Winona emergency room rated high
WINONA, Minn. — The Winona hospital has been rated in the top 7% of [...]
Opioid overdose worries? Free Narcan offered
ALMA, Wis. — Free Narcan kits for emergency opioid overdoses are now available to [...]
Investigator: Nursing home overdosed patient
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Minnesota Health Department cited a Rochester nursing home for negligence [...]
State pauses funds for Minnesota group homes
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The state Human Services Department ordered a two-year moratorium on [...]
Judge: City OK inclosing homeless encampments
MINNEAPOLIS —A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of homeless people against [...]
Ethanol plant fined for environmental neglect
Southeast Minnesota refinery. Among three largest employers in Dodge County municipality of Claremont, population [...]
Researchers: Autism-Tylenol link is quackery
LONDON — Another group of researchers has discredited a link between the complex child [...]
Rug pulled from under you on med insurance?
WINONA, Minn. — The major local healthcare provider, Winona Health, has set up a [...]
Insurers drop Winona medical coverage
WINONA, Minn. — Two major regional healthcare insurance carriers, Ucare and Quartz, aren’t renewing [...]
Second U.S. judge slams Trump food denial
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to [...]
Judge to Trump on stopping food aid: You can’t
BOSTON — A federal judge gave President Trump Trump until Monday to restore SNAP [...]
Walz orders outside audit for Medicaid fraud
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz has suspended payments to 14 Medicaid providers [...]
Walz assigns $4 million for foodbank crisis
EAGAN, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz pledged $4 million to Minnesota foodbanks to meet [...]
Hospital chain’s doctors plan one-day strike
MINNEAPOLIS — The doctors’ union at the giant Minneapolis-based Allina hospital chain has called [...]
Mayo milestone: Sparta’s new hospital
A Mayo rural health investment. Minnesota health giant sees two years for construction, then [...]
Mayo drops Owatonna birthing services
OWATONNA, Minn. — In a further constriction of outlying services, Mayo Clinic is ending [...]
Old RX’s cramming your shelves? What to do
WINONA, Minn. — A drug take-back event has been scheduled for Saturday by police [...]
Flu vaccination for school kids coming up
WINONA, Minn. —Parents have until Monday to file documents authorizing flu shots for their [...]
Proposal: To ease cost of fertility care
MADISON, Wis. — A bill proposed in the Wisconsin Legislature would require health insurers [...]
Gundersen buys Sparta ambulance company
LACROSSE, Wis. — Gundersen Health has bought the Sparta ambulance service 27 miles away. [...]
Expert: Measles has growing Minnesota foothold
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The state Health Department confirmed 10 more cases of infectious [...]
Mayo holds back on Trump’s anti-Tylenol claim
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Healthcare providers nationwide have been shaking their heads incredulously at President [...]
Pending Minnesota loss if Obamacare goes away
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Healthcare insurance will be costlier for many Minnesotans unless Congress [...]
West Nile extends reach into LaCrosse County
LACROSSE, Wis. – Public health authorities confirmed the season’s first human case of the [...]
Accident possibly dirties some Rochester water
ROCHESTER, Minn. — People in parts of southwest Rochester were advised to boil their [...]
An anti-suicide plan to self-ban guns
MADISON, Wis. — Democratic lawmakers proposed a law to allow individuals to list themselves [...]
Mayo to eliminate six rural clinics
ROCHESTER. Minn. —Mayo Clinic is closing six rural clinics in southern Minnesota in anticipation [...]
20 West Nile cases in Minnesota, two deaths
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two deaths from mosquito-borne West Nile disease have occurred in [...]
Dogs vulnerable to Mexican screwworm parasite
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Travelers taking their dogs to Mexico should have them checked [...]
An inflight no-no: Ex-Viking lit one up
CHICAGO — Delta Air Lines confirmed that former Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen [...]
Doctor finds Smith healthy; back at Senate
WASHHINGTON – After a brief health concern and overnight at George Washington University hospital, [...]
Rabid cat attacks two Mower County farm kids
AUSTIN, Minn. — Two southern Minnesota farm children have undergone treatment for the dreaded [...]
Measles back in Minnesota; spreading feared
WOODBURY, Minn. — A fourth Minnesota case of highly contagious measles this year has [...]
Notable journalism
Shadi Bushra (Minnesota Post, July. 15, 2025): “Minnesota Needs Immigrants to Propel Population Growth: [...]
Hospital opens lobby for heat relief
WINONA, Minn. — With summer heat having arrived, with highs in the low 90s, [...]
Legislature kills MinnCare for unpapered aliens
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Legislature voted to delete adults living in the country [...]
Walz: Skids are greased to OK new state budget
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz ordered legislators into a special session beginning [...]
Measles outbreak feared from Mall of America
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Public health experts have cautioned anyone at Mall of America [...]
Planned Parenthood shutters four Minnesota clinics
RICHFIELD, Minn. -- The women’s health organization Planned Parenthood is closing four Minnesota clinics [...]
Dreaded measles outbreak now in North Dakota
ATLANTA, Ga. – The spreading incidence of measles reached North Dakota – the 11th [...]
Wrecking ball due at Mayo’s LaCrosse hospital
LACROSSE, Wis. – The Rochester-based Mayo Clinic asked city permission to demolish the St. [...]
Criminal allegation: $15 million in fake Insurance billings
MINNEAPOLIS – An Eden Prairie couple has been charged with defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and [...]
Winona Health awarded for prompt stroke care
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona hospital has received top regional awards for treating stroke [...]
Monitoring project finds bird flu in dairy herd
ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- A 260-cow Stearns County dairy farm has been quarantined after [...]
Winona police now with on-call trauma counsel
WINONA, Minn. -- Police Chief Tom Williams said a chaplaincy agreement with Rochester-based Salt [...]
State orders dairy cow tests for bird flu
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Intensive state inspections began of dairy farms statewide to detect [...]
R.I.P.: Sara Gabrick
WINONA, Minn. – Sara Gabrick, 63, a Winona Health executive, died of catastrophic cardiac [...]
New med-evac helicopter in Winona ascent
From roof helipad. The new Eurocopter EC145e, branded as Emplify Health, has made [...]