23+ hour, 57+ min ago   (488+ words) SAINT PAUL, MN (September 13, 2026). Minnesota begins Workplace Rights Week Sunday with a message that extends well beyond a ceremonial proclamation: workers cannot exercise protections they do not know they have. Gov. Tim Walz has proclaimed September 13 through September 19 Workplace Rights…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (487+ words) SAINT PAUL, MN (September 10, 2026). Saint Paul's planned expansion of its police drone program has been stopped for now after City Council members declined Wednesday to move forward while questions remain about privacy, surveillance and oversight of the technology. The proposal…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (636+ words) BROOKLYN CENTER, MN (September 10, 2026). A yearlong investigation into suspected criminal activity at Brooklyn Center hotels culminated Wednesday in one of the city's largest coordinated law-enforcement operations in recent memory, with authorities executing 31 search warrants at four hotels and arresting approximately…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (525+ words) ELY, MN (September 10, 2026). After more than two months of firefighting across some of Minnesota's most remote terrain, wildfires that burned more than 71,000 acres in and around the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness have reached 100 percent containment. U.S. Forest Service officials said…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (968+ words) MINNEAPOLIS, MN (September 9, 2026). The Minnesota State Fair ended its 2026 run with 1,923,325 visitors, the seventh-highest attendance in its history. The more useful lesson is found inside the daily totals. Opening Thursday drew 155,185 visitors, followed by 204,065 on the first Friday. Attendance declined…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (747+ words) SAINT PAUL, MN (September 8, 2026). A neighborhood dispute over the planned METRO H Line is intensifying in Saint Paul as residents along Como Avenue push Metro Transit to move part of the bus rapid transit route away from their residential street…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (948+ words) MINNEAPOLIS, MN (July 10, 2026) The City of Minneapolis has fired its highest-ranking communications official amid a police investigation into allegations that he stole cash and financial cards from fellow municipal employees and used at least one stolen card to make hundreds…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (522+ words) MINNEAPOLIS, MN (September 5, 2026). New reporting about the months preceding Wednesday's deadly Shoreline Plaza mass shooting is sharpening scrutiny of Minnesota's red-flag law after authorities considered whether alleged threats by the suspected gunman could support removing his access to firearms. Carlton…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (583+ words) MINNEAPOLIS, MN (September 5, 2026). Doctors who treated victims of Wednesday's mass shooting near Loring Park joined gun-violence prevention advocates and Minnesota lawmakers Friday in calling for additional firearm restrictions, opening a new legislative debate only days after the attack. The group…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (558+ words) SAINT PAUL, MN (September 5, 2026). A proposal to close Saint Paul's Dayton's Bluff Library is becoming one of the most contentious elements of Mayor Kaohly Her's first city budget as East Side leaders argue that residents are being asked to pay…...