Kids and codeine cough meds are a bad combination
Come children receive no benefit, while others are at risk for overdose despite taking the recommended amount.
Safe Kids car-seat clinics: Minor adjustments can make major differences
Safe Kids Anoka County and others offer free inspections to try to ensure children's seats are properly installed.
Inspired
In Minneapolis, a mobile van rolls out with health care outreach to kids
With childhood vaccines declining by as much as 70%, health professionals at Hennepin Healthcare are taking it to the streets to keep kids healthy.
Local
Mental health workers set one-day strike at Allina, Fairview hospitals
Safety is a priority for newly unionized workers, along with benefits to stop people from leaving the profession.
Health
Mystery pediatric hepatitis cases investigated in Minnesota
Cases include Minnesota's youngest-ever liver transplant recipient and another child awaiting transplant.
The good struggle: Teachers lean into the idea that, in the classroom, challenge is something to embrace
When Hunter, 6, started first grade last autumn, he struggled to match letter sounds with the shape of letters on paper. He found writing letters…
Variety
Yuen: How Matt Birk's rant against sex ed convinced me it absolutely belongs in elementary schools
A Twin Cities suburban school district explains why it's teaching touch, decision-making and anatomy to kids as young as 5.
Variety
Yuen: Why students are taking mental health days off from school — and how to make the most of them
Minnesota law doesn't oblige districts to excuse student absences for the occasional day off to reset and recharge. But the idea is catching on across the country.
Business
Pfizer shot is far less effective in ages 5-11 than in older kids
The coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech is much less effective in preventing infection in children ages 5-11 than in older adolescents or adults, according to…
Politics
Minnesota faces escalating demand for mental health services
Children are waiting months for treatment and spending weeks stuck in hospital emergency rooms as staff shortages plague the industry.
Local
Windchill, COVID cases push Mpls. schools to go online Monday
The district anticipates a reduced capacity to transport students in tomorrow's weather conditions.
Local
St. Paul school closures could leave Highwood Hills without a rec center — again
Highwood Hills reopened in 2019 but could shutter with elementary school.
Business
Theft lays bare struggle with diaper need
A police bulletin on a man who walked out of a store with a cart of stolen diapers drew attention to families struggling to afford diapers — or in some cases even find them in stock at stores.
Politics
Walz defends state's new immunization record app
A Republican critic called the new app "significant" government overreach.
Coronavirus
Judge deals setback to parents seeking mask mandate in Minn. schools
Judge rejected request for a temporary restraining order to direct Gov. Tim Walz to declare a peacetime emergency and mandate masks in all public schools.
Nation
When vaccines aren't an option: life for families with children under 12
As pandemic resurges and new school year opens, 48 million under 12 still wait.
Local
Delta variant fuels new wave of unease among Minn. parents
Some parents are concerned about infection risks in children 11 and younger who are ineligible for vaccine, while others fear an overreaction to an ill-timed pandemic wave that will have schoolchildren wearing masks again this fall and losing social and learning opportunities.
Local
Pandemic, hot weather leave schools sweating over air quality
COVID, heat wave prompt review of HVAC systems.
Principal cuts the mic when valedictorian gives speech about coming out
Less than a minute into Bryce Dershem's valedictorian speech June 17, the microphone cut out. He had just told the audience at his New Jersey…
Coronavirus
Masks will be optional for many Minnesota students taking summer classes
Minnesota students and teachers returning to classrooms for summer school may see one clear shift in pandemic precautions: fewer people wearing masks.
Local
New St. Paul nonprofit wants to nip racism in the bud through early childhood education
The organization, Before Racism, is developing anti-racism curriculum for 1- to 5-year-olds.
Local
Mpls. students emerge from pandemic with rousing new anthems
A student's curiosity about why Anthony Middle School didn't have its own anthem launched a project that would carry a Minneapolis band teacher and her students through an especially challenging year.
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