Wadena Pioneer Journal | Wadena, Minnesota

ST. PAUL — With the Wild suddenly trailing the Colorado Avalanche in Game 4 on Monday night at Grand Casino Arena, and the fatalistic fan base staring down existential dread, Quinn Hughes decided to take matters into his own hands.

After corralling a loose puck along the boards, Hughes spun away from the blue line to keep the play onside, then feathered a bac...

DENVER — It’s an oft-repeated mantra in hockey that the big picture does not matter. To have success, you need to focus on one game at a time, one period at a time, one shift at a time.

With as little as one game remaining in their season, if things go poorly at Ball Arena on Wednesday night, members of the Minnesota Wild are heeding that advice that was like...

ST. PAUL — Using the butt end of a hockey stick to strike an opponent has long been considered one of the dirtier and more dangerous plays in hockey. When Wild forward Michael McCarron took a butt end to the face from Avalanche defenseman Josh Manson on Monday, he did not shy away from offering an opinion on the play.

Or the player.

“He’s a d...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota gun violence prevention advocates renewed pressure on lawmakers Tuesday to take up a Senate-passed gun violence prevention package in the final days of the session.

Over 20 healthcare professionals, including anesthesiologists, physicians and nurses, walked through a simulation to show what it takes to treat a single child with a gunshot ...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Health is monitoring one person in the state who was potentially exposed to hantavirus, the state agency said Tuesday, May 12.

The monitored person “may have briefly been exposed overseas to someone who was on board the MV Hondius cruise and tested positive for hantavirus,” MDH said, adding that the risk to the public is...