Bring Me the News’ Christine Schuster reports that Elko Latest Market residents are pushing back against a California company’s plan to construct a bottling plant to bottle their city water.

Duluth News Tribune staff report: Duluth Mayor Emily Larson will run for a 3rd term as mayor of the Zenith City of the Unsalted Sea.

MPR’s Updraft blog has an update on the winter storm fro     m Sven Sundgaard.

At North News, Azhae’la Hanson reports that North Minneapolis food shelves are struggling to maintain up with an increase in food insecurity.

MPR’s Tim Nelson reports local civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong is recovering from surgery after an eye fixed exam found a brain tumor. “Levy Armstrong said she had been experiencing blurred vision in a single eye and went in for an eye fixed exam in July,” Nelson reports.

Southwest Voices’ Melody Hoffmann writes a few forum at Southwest High School last night with recent MPD Police Chief Brian O’Hara. He talked about youth violence, police policies and improving community relations.

Sahan Journal’s Becky Dernbach writes that Somali families are debating recent Burnsville–Eagan–Savage School District guidelines on supporting transgender students. “The policy features a clause about keeping a student’s transgender identity confidential — including from the scholar’s parents — unless the scholar authorized the varsity to share that information,” Dernbach reports.