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The expansion, made possible using $350,000 in CARES funds allocated to Olmsted County, will allow the center to continue providing beds for up to 30 people a night while adhering to social distancing guidelines.
The district was scheduled to reveal Phase III of its Return to Learn plan no later than November 23 — the last scheduled school day before Thanksgiving break. With Covid-19 cases spiking in Rochester, however, the district made its move early.
For Olmsted Medical Center patients, that will mean visiting its FastCare North location, 102 Elton Hills Drive NW. Mayo Clinic patients will be directed to the 41st Street Testing Center, 3033 41st Street NW.
Ninety-two Covid-positive patients were hospitalized at Mayo Clinic’s Rochester facilities at noon Tuesday — that’s up from 86 at midnight, and roughly three times the numbers Mayo had dealt with through the summer.
Jack Lester plans to open "Jack’s Bottle Shop” this December at 909 6th Street NW, just a few doors down from his longtime employer, Forager Brewery.
Olmsted County Public Health has suspended the food and beverage license of Legends Bar and Grill due to Covid-related health violations, officials announced Tuesday afternoon.
University of Minnesota Rochester received approval from the Rochester City Council to pivot on their expansion plans Monday, pausing a partnership with the Rochester YMCA in favor of a $2.5 million expansion into the former home of The Loop.
News broke early Monday morning that a vaccine manufactured by prescription giant Pfizer and German drugmaker BioNTech was 90 percent effective in initial Phase 3 study results. If the study’s findings hold true, that would put the vaccine’s effectiveness on par with widely-administered vaccines for diseases like measles.
At press time, Olmsted County swung further to the left in 2020 than any other large county in Minnesota, supporting Joe Biden by 11 points after siding with Hillary Clinton by less than one percentage point in 2016.
The latest Covid-19 report from Olmsted County reveals a situation that local public health officials have feared: significant increases in cases and rolling averages, setting new highs and raising worries over the strain on the health care system in the weeks to come.
Olmsted County’s voters have made their voices heard in big numbers for the 2020 election, according to the county’s election leader — likely setting a new all-time record for turnout among registered voters.
Rochester voters overwhelmingly passed a ballot referendum on parks Tuesday evening, slightly raising the city’s property taxes while giving Rochester Parks and Recreation $2 million to add to its 2021 budget.
We are updating this page with results reported by the Minnesota Secretary of State.
Dr. David Ahlquist, a groundbreaking Mayo Clinic researcher who helped provide the first major alternative to a colonoscopy, died Sunday from complications related to ALS. He was 69.
On Friday, Trump returned to Minnesota for the fourth time this election season for a rally at the Rochester International Airport.
In a bizarre series of events, the Trump campaign says Friday’s campaign stop in Minnesota is being moved back to the Rochester airport.
We are told that plans for Friday's Trump rally at McNeilus Steel in Dodge Center have been scrapped. There are also reports that the Trump campaign is now looking at going back to the original plan and hosting the event at the Rochester airport. We will have another update on this as soon as additional details become available.
Olmsted County Covid numbers continue to trend at their highest levels of the pandemic — though public health officials say the area so far has avoided the worst impacts of the recent Midwest case surge.
The rally is one of three Trump has scheduled for Friday as the president looks to strengthen support in the Upper Midwest in the final days of the election.
This period — which runs now through November 2 — allows voters to show up in person and insert their ballots directly into a ballot tabulator.
