16+ hour, 13+ min ago   (735+ words) The City of Minneapolis is hosting its sixth annual Black Business Week through Sunday, Aug. 2. The celebration leads into National Black Business Month, observed throughout August, and invites residents to learn about entrepreneurship while supporting Black-owned businesses across the city....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (708+ words) By mid-April, the Twin Cities enters a different rhythm. The calendar is no longer tentative. It is full, layered, and moving at pace. Sports, theater, live music, and community programming are all operating simultaneously, often within blocks of each other....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (601+ words) What is less documented, and often entirely absent from public record, is the broader role many of these businesses play in sustaining communities far beyond commerce. In neighborhoods across cities like Brooklyn Park, Coon Rapids, and other parts of the…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (923+ words) Stephenson, a fourth-term lawmaker, was selected by his colleagues in a closed-door caucus meeting, positioning him to guide House Democrats into the 2026 legislative session. His election follows the death of former House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, whose leadership and influence…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (919+ words) By the first weekend of April, the Twin Cities is operating at full capacity again. The shift is visible in how the calendar behaves. Events are no longer spaced out across the week. They are stacked into the same two-day…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1215+ words) This type of coordination is not unusual. It takes place across Minnesota in different forms and in different communities, often without visibility beyond those directly involved. While public attention tends to focus on how institutions respond during periods of difficulty,…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1020+ words) As a powerful late-winter storm approaches the Twin Cities metro, officials in Coon Rapids say the city’s snow-removal operation is fully mobilized and ready for what meteorologists warn could be one of the most significant snow events of the season....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (828+ words) The advisory, issued Saturday through the department’s community alert channels, asks residents to avoid street parking beginning Saturday night and continuing throughout Sunday, when the storm is expected to intensify across the Twin Cities metropolitan region. While the request may…...

4+ mon, 2+ week 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....

4+ mon, 3+ week 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…...