15+ hour, 54+ min ago  (709+ words) The new service, Route 725, launched on December 6, 2025, and now links several key suburban corridors stretching across Hennepin and Anoka counties. Officials with Metro Transit say the route represents a deliberate shift in how regional transit service is designed and delivered....

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (842+ words) The wind moved across the streets with the kind of cold only a Minnesota winter can deliver. Snow had hardened along sidewalks and street corners, and the sky still held the darkness of early morning. Yet long before sunrise, people…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1282+ words) The proposal, House File 3739, was introduced by Representatives Zach Stephenson, Erin Koegel, and Brad Tabke, lawmakers whose districts intersect with the communities Hortman represented for more than two decades. A companion measure, Senate File 4073, was introduced in the Minnesota Senate…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (769+ words) Filed as a consent judgment in federal court, the agreement requires Fleet Farm to pay $1 million to the State of Minnesota, implement new safeguards across its Minnesota stores, and submit to enhanced oversight designed to prevent high volume firearm purchases…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago  (523+ words) In a unanimous vote, the St. Paul City Council has approved a sweeping public safety ordinance requiring law enforcement officers operating within city limits to clearly and visibly display identification on the outermost layer of their uniform. The ordinance applies…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (582+ words) The day began inside First Avenue, where a midday benefit billed as A Concert of Solidarity & Resistance to Defend Minnesota drew a packed house. Headlined by Tom Morello, the concert quickly took on broader significance when Bruce Springsteen appeared as…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (683+ words) This is where Minnesota now finds itself: at a crossroads not of legality, but of legitimacy. Not of enforcement, but of trust. Healing does not begin with declarations. It begins with acknowledgment. Acknowledgment of loss. Acknowledgment of fear. Acknowledgment that…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (559+ words) MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL -The union representing Hennepin County paramedics and emergency medical technicians warned on January 26, 2026, that the region's emergency medical system is approaching a "breaking point," citing mounting pressure from an ongoing federal immigration enforcement campaign known as Operation Metro…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1076+ words) There are moments in Minnesota when the cold does more than freeze lakes and stiffen breath. It interrupts the machinery of daily life. It closes schools, empties buses, quiets playgrounds, and turns the ordinary act of leaving home into a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (469+ words) Minnesota state officials are preparing for a volatile weekend in Minneapolis as dueling demonstrations are expected to converge downtown against the backdrop of an unprecedented federal immigration operation, a fatal shooting involving an ICE agent, and rising political rhetoric that…...