Mold Remediation in St. Paul, MN

MINNEAPOLIS — As arctic temperatures blow through Minnesota, officials in Minneapolis and St. Paul have activated a number of warming shelters to help the unsheltered and vulnerable stay out of the dangerous cold.

Here are some of the locations that are available as of Wednesday afternoon:

St. Paul warming shelter locations

In Ramsey County, warming centers will open on Wednesday and remain open through the night on March 31. That is with the exception of St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church, which will open its doors as a warming space on Sunday.

All warming centers will be open from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. daily.

Warming centers will provide seating, blankets, light snacks — like coffee and cocoa — and warming supplies, like gloves and mittens, when available.

There is also a free shuttle service that runs from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. each day, to ensure transportation to and from warming centers.

Minneapolis warming shelter locations

Hennepin County suggests that anyone looking to utilize a warming center call ahead to make sure they're open.

Hennepin County also says that only some locations offer food and case management.

The county's warming centers are broken down between daytime and nighttime shelter options. Many of the daytime options include meals, housing assistance, internet access and showers, among other services and resources.

Daytime warming center options

Nighttime warming center options

Warming centers outside the Twin Cities

St. Cloud

Duluth

Other warming center locations

Here are other warming center locations around the Twin Cities. The operation hours and services provided at these locations is unknown.

WCCO will update this list should more warming centers open up in the Twin Cities this winter.

Mackenzie Lofgren

Mackenzie Lofgren is a web producer and digital content producer at CBS Minnesota. She writes web articles and produces short-form video content used on CBS Minnesota's streaming platforms.

Red Bull's Heavy Metal urban snowboarding event will return to downtown St. Paul on Feb. 1, with athletes navigating a custom rail-riding course around the Minnesota State Capitol.

Red Bull Heavy Metal, a snowboarding and rail-riding competition, is set to return to downtown St. Paul on Feb. 1.

The street snowboard competition challenges athletes to navigate a custom rail-riding course built around the Minnesota State Capitol building steps.

The competition will offer three zones, each designed to test the snowboarders’ skills when faced with different kinds of street snowboarding. The featured obstacles include rails and gaps, stairs, benches, and snow ramps.

Some big names in snowboarding will be in attendance this year, from former winners to rail-riding legends. Two Minnesota natives, Joe Sexton and Benny Milam, a 2022 winner and runner-up in last year’s competition, are returning for the event.

Red Bull has a history of bringing extreme winter sports events to Minnesota. Red Bull Crashed Ice had a seven-year run in St. Paul, drawing thousands of attendees for its mashup of ice-skating and bobsled races (both St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and former Mayor Chris Coleman participated as competitors).

The snowboarding-focused Red Bull Heavy Metal was launched in the early 2000s and was hosted by Duluth in 2022 before coming to St. Paul in early 2024.

“Red Bull Heavy Metal has come so far since 2022. It’s really become a staple in the world of snowboarding,” Milam said. “I think it’s so great that we can bring it back to Minnesota, and to St. Paul, for another year. Last year brought out a crowd unlike anything I’d ever seen, so I’m ready for this year to be even bigger!”

Alongside Milan and Sexton, Grace Warner, Egan Wint, Pat Fava and Jaylen Hanson — winners and runners-up of past competitions — will all be returning for this year’s event.

"Winter in Minnesota is an exciting time to explore the outdoors, and we're thrilled to welcome Red Bull Heavy Metal back to St. Paul," Mayor Carter said about the upcoming competition. "The energy from this world-class event kicks off what will be a year full of fun and celebration across our capital city."

This year’s event will open up the competition to the public in a Last Chance Qualified, held at Buck Hill in Burnsville.

Red Bull Heavy Metal will open its gates to spectators at 1 p.m., and the competition will run from 2 to 5 p.m. The event is free and a video recapping the competitions will be posted on the event’s website afterwards.

The Minnesota Timberwolves announced a new partnership with a local TV station to broadcast five games this season, marking the team's return to free over-the-air television for first time since 2012.

The Minnesota Timberwolves will broadcast five games on KARE-11 this season, marking the team's return to free over-the-air television for first time since 2012.

The broadcasts are part of a larger effort by the Timberwolves to grow its fan base. The broadcasts, which will be aired simultaneously on KARE-11 and FanDuel Sports Network, will allow an additional 1.5 million households to watch the five games, according to a news release announcing the partnership.

"The idea is really just about reach and distribution," said Ryan Tanke, the organization's chief operating officer. "Our No. 1 business priority is to double our fan base over these next five years, and this just brings Timberwolves basketball to more households."

The games are made available for local over-the-air distribution as part of the NBA’s agreement with Diamond Sports Group, the owner of FanDuel Sports Network North (former Bally Sports Network), which allows NBA teams to simulcast up to five games this season.

The Timberwolves have not aired on KARE since a nine-year run from 1992-93 to 2001. The channel will air FanDuel Sports Network’s production of the games, including “Wolves Live” before and after every game. The Tegna-owned station is an NBC affiliate, which recently signed a media rights deal with the NBA to broadcast games starting in the 2025-2026 season.

“KARE-11 is proud to bring this slate of Timberwolves games to fans in Minnesota and NW Wisconsin,” said Doug Wieder, president and general manager the station, in a statement. “Local sports are in our DNA, and we’re thrilled to offer these games for free to more Wolves fans in more homes than ever before.”

The games:

The organization will remain with Diamond Sports Group for at least the remainder of the season. Tanke, who noted the Wolves rank among the top in the NBA for views and streams of games, said no decisions have been made on a broadcast partner for next season.

"This is really just a five-game beta test, nothing more at this point, ... just to see what type of reach and distribution could look like for us," he said.

The Wolves are also doing well when it comes to in-person viewership, selling out their last 75 home games. The team is also No. 10 in the NBA in average attendance, No. 8 in the NBA in average tickets sold per game, and its 18% year-over-year growth in tickets sold per game is the largest increase in the NBA this season.

Here’s an up-to-date list of all NFL Players from Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St Paul, MN.

The list includes only those players who have played in an NFL game.

See where it ranks among other schools in the state here.

NFL Players from Cretin-Derham Hall HS

Provided by Pro-Football-Reference.com

St. Paul Dayton’s display cherished for characters

For many Minnesotans the Christmas shows at Dayton’s department store were a staple of their holiday season. Now, a homeowner in St. Paul's Highland Park neighborhood is breathing new life into some classic characters. FOX 9’s Maury Glover takes us live around the display.

The Brief

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - John Pihaly's porch on Saunders Avenue in St Paul is a throwback to another era.

Christmas spirit

"It's fantastic. We've had a lot of visitors, young and old, like to come out here to visit with them and hear their stories and share their memories. It's been a lot of fun this year," said Pihaly.

FOX 9 first met Pihaly three years ago, when he built a Santa's Village using nine animatronic characters from the old Christmas shows in the 8th floor auditorium at the Dayton's Department store in downtown Minneapolis.

The figurines had been forgotten in an old storage room when the store closed back in 2017, until he stumbled across them at a store fixture business in Minneapolis.

"Great opportunity to get people in the holiday spirit, relive the memories of Dayton’s and share in the Christmas spirit," said Pihaly.

New holiday, new displays

This year, Pihaly closed his front porch to create six different vignettes with 30 figurines, each depicting a day in the life of an elf from Dayton's last Christmas show.

Pihaly refurbished all the characters himself, using new technology to restore the broken hands and feet from the pieces from the past.

"We were able to find a way to 3D scan a good hand and then make a mirror image of it, and then 3D print an exact replica painted to match the exact way that it was edited," said Pihaly.

Pihaly's expanded holiday display has drawn a larger number of visitors feeling nostalgic about Christmases gone by.

"I think it’s entertaining. I could stand there for a long time if it was a little warmer," said Pihaly.

He hopes keeping the legacy of the Dayton's elves alive will become a holiday tradition of its own.

"It's just been a fantastic experience. Really fun. Very rewarding," said Pihaly.

The display will be lit from 5 to 9 p.m. through Christmas Day at 1887 Saunders Avenue in St Paul.