Discussions on the proposed Granary Corridor — a road that would run just north of TCF Bank Stadium, connecting Minneapolis’ eastern border near Minnesota State Highway 280 with Interstate...
Minneapolis police Chief Tim Dolan announced Wednesday that he won’t seek a third term as chief and will retire at the end of 2012 after 29 years with the department.
The announcement comes...
Plans to limit access to public plazas in Minneapolis were delayed once again Wednesday.
The City Council resolution — which council President Barb Johnson tried to bring to a vote April 13...
This past fall, street resurfacing crews removed several city blocks of old streetcar rails along Riverside Avenue left behind from its glory days in the early 20th century.
The crew’s discovery...
In his annual State of the City address Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak linked the fate of the struggling north Minneapolis area to the overall health of the city.
Using the Capri Theater...
Private contractors looking to work on city projects will have to meet higher hiring standards if they want to win a bid.
The Minneapolis City Council revised its minority workforce hiring goals...
Gary Tinsley, a University of Minnesota senior and former Gophers linebacker, was found dead early Friday morning in Roy Wilkins Hall.
Speaking on behalf of the football team at a press conference Friday...
An empty plot of land in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood could soon be filled by an apartment building.
The Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission discussed plans for a five-story, 57-unit apartment...
It took nearly a decade for the state of Minnesota to double exports.
Twin Cities leaders, including the University of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis, are hoping a partnership with the Washington,...
A bicycling tradition is forming in Minneapolis.
30 Days of Biking, an event in which people pledge that they will ride their bike at least once a day throughout April, will kick off for the third time...
The political landscape of Minneapolis has officially changed.
The Minneapolis Charter Commission unanimously approved a new ward map Tuesday that will set the city’s political boundaries for the...
After passing in the state Senate on Friday night, Minnesota is just a hurdle away from having the voter ID constitutional amendment on the November ballot.
The amendment, which would require people to...
Minnesota is another step closer to having a photo ID constitutional amendment on the November ballot.
The amendment, which will require people to present photo identification to vote, passed 36-30 Friday...
In the coming days, the Minneapolis Charter Commission will finalize a new ward map that will set political boundaries within the city for the next 10 years.
And residents, city officials and neighborhood...
Plans to restructure the civilian board that investigates complaints of Minneapolis police misconduct are moving forward, but some board members and residents remain opposed.
The plan would replace...
Two separate proposals are looking to reduce the already-limited power of the civilian board that investigates complaints about Minneapolis police actions.
A proposal from several city officials...
In the city of Minneapolis’ constant effort to improve its drinking water, city officials are again turning to University of Minnesota researchers for help.
The Minneapolis City Council’s Transportation...
In the corner of a modest brick building in north Minneapolis, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison’s office is quiet.
Coffee is calmly sipped, conversations are discreet and aides keep a steady pace.
But once...
Last summer, the city of Minneapolis laid off six firefighters after the state cut Local Government Aid allocation by about $23 million.
On Friday, the city applied for a $1 million federal grant...
As a University of Minnesota horticultural science professor, John Erwin has received praise for his research. As president of the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, he has been criticized for proposed...
A redistricting map recently submitted to the Minneapolis Charter Commission is drawing concern from members of the Minnesota Green Party.
The Citizens Committee for Fair Redistricting, a group...
A record-breaking cold snap in Eastern Europe has caused more than 600 deaths, according to an article from the Star Tribune.
Heavy blizzards, and freezing temperatures have trapped tens of thousands...
The city of Minneapolis recently revised its goals for becoming a more sustainable city.
The various targets for the 26 Minneapolis Sustainability Indicators, which measure the city’s...
Plans for another apartment building near the University of Minnesota are moving forward.
On Thursday, Doran Companies heard concerns from the Minneapolis City Planning Commission about its proposed five-story,...
Two plainclothes police officers stood and watched as a young woman walked up to the counter at Chipotle Mexican Grill on Washington Avenue, presented her ID and bought a Corona last summer.
But the womanâÄôs...
In 2005, Afrik Grocery and Halal Meat on Cedar Avenue needed to expand. Owner Abdi Adem, who operates his business under Sharia law, needed to find a loan that funded the expansion and complied with his...
The city of Minneapolis will redraw its 13 wards this spring and the University of Minnesota and surrounding neighborhoods will likely be a key area in the process.
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, city...
Fire chiefs donâÄôt stay long in Minneapolis.
On Friday, the City Council approved John Fruetel to become the cityâÄôs fifth fire chief since 2004.
Fruetel, 59, will inherit a department...
Plans to build the Southwest Corridor light-rail transit line, which would connect Minneapolis with Eden Prairie, are gaining momentum.
Gov. Mark Dayton recently recommended $25 million of his $775...
Plans to renovate a half-mile stretch of Riverside Avenue are moving forward in the Minneapolis City Council.
The project will widen sidewalks, add bike lanes, install street lights and repair a half-mile...
House Speaker Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, spoke Thursday at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, previewing the upcoming legislative session.
Speaking to a crowd of roughly 50, Zellers promoted Reform...
If the bright green bike lanes and Nice Ride stations werenâÄôt evidence enough, Shaun Murphy is living proof that promoting bicycling is a high priority for the City of Minneapolis.
Murphy started...
The Metro Transit reported that ridership rose by 3.5 percent, or 2.7 million rides in 2011. Roughly 80.9 million rides were taken on its buses, light rail and Northstar commuter line.
It's the fifth consecutive...
The first ever City of Minneapolis Bicycle Account was released today. The report showed recently completed bicycle infrastructure projects and also outlayed future projects. The report also revealed a...
A funding cut and new leadership are on the way at the Minneapolis Television Network.
MTN, which operates three public access channels, is facing a $90,000 funding cut for 2012 as part of the cityâÄôs...
Wikipedia will shut down Wednesday, joining several other prominent websites in a protest against SOPA, according to a report from CNET. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, said the site will...
Jon Huntsman will end his presidential bid Monday and endorse front-runner Mitt Romney, according to a report from CNN.
The decision comes after Huntsman finished third in the New Hampshire primary....
The Minneapolis City Council approved an ordinance Friday requiring taxi cabs in the city to accept credit cards effective June 1. The council passed the ordinance 11-2.
Councilman Gary Schiff spearheaded...
Kari Dziedzic got her first taste of politics as a fifth grader.
The daughter of former longtime city councilman Walt Dziedzic, she has lived in Minneapolis for almost her entire life. On Tuesday, sheâÄôll...
After finishing a distant sixth in the Iowa caucus, Minnesota congresswoman Michelle Bachmann suspended her presidential campaign Wednesday morning, effectively ending her bid for the White House, according...
After years of complaints from Minneapolis residents that property taxes were too high, city officials listened. The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved the 2012 city budget...
The road for Mayor R.T. Rybak's plan to keep the Vikings in Minneapolis just got a little steeper.
Rybak pitched his plan to keep the Vikings in Minneapolis to a wary City Council Thursday, according...
The office in charge of responding to the tornado that tore through north Minneapolis in May has received two state grants to continue planning and preparation for future emergencies.
On Friday, the Minneapolis...
In late June, three people stole a vehicle parked on 26th Avenue Northeast. Within five minutes, several Minneapolis police officers pulled them over and, with guns drawn, ordered the driver out of the...
Only two years after its creation, the city of MinneapolisâÄô Internal Audit Department could be slashed in the proposed 2012 budget.
It was hailed by city officials as a responsible creation in...
Thanks to the Minneapolis City Council, the next time a cab picks you up the driver wonâÄôt be on his cellphone or wearing a white T-shirt.
These are just two of the changes to a city ordinance...
The city-wide fall street sweep is complete and the damage is done.
According to the City of Minneapolis, 2,518 vehicles were towed during the annual cleaning. That's up from the most recent sweeps. ...
In the wake of the sex abuse scandal that has rocked Penn State University in recent weeks, University President Eric Kaler released a directive Tuesday clearly stating his expectations of faculty and...
Although 2011 is an off-election year, the City of Minneapolis is scrambling to prepare for a pair of special elections.
Because the city didnâÄôt budget for special voting, the cityâÄôs...
On a frigid Saturday in February 2006, four friends huddled around a small burner for warmth as they brewed their first batch of beer in a one-car garage in the Fulton neighborhood of Minneapolis.
It became...
Data collected recently by the Minneapolis Fire Department and the city shows that the departmentâÄôs sick day and time off policies cost the city nearly $1 million in overtime pay annually.
According...
From the freshly varnished gymnasium at Van Cleve Community Center, a group of about 15 residents from MinneapolisâÄô wards one and two voiced their concerns late Wednesday evening about Mayor...
Rep. Phyllis Kahn introduced legislation Monday that would make the Minnesota Vikings a publicly owned team as a means to finance its new stadium.
The ongoing debate surrounding the football stadium drove...
The Minnesota Twins announced Monday that Bill Smith has been fired as the Twins' general manager. Effective immediately, Terry Ryan will take over as interim GM, according to the Star Tribune.
The...
Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak will be playing an integral role in the upcoming 2012 presidential race.
As one of the five vice chairs for the Democratic National Committee, Rybak's duties will include making...
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler and the Board of Regents will file for an appeal in the Jimmy WilliamsâÄô lawsuit with the Minnesota Supreme Court in the next several days.
University...
Rep. Phyllis Kahn will introduce legislation Monday to move the Vikings to a community ownership model, allowing for the sale of stock in the team.
The ongoing debate for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium...
Elected in 2005, Diane Hofstede is in her second term as councilwoman of Ward 3 âÄî one of two wards in Minneapolis that encompass the University of Minnesota community.
Stretching from Marcy-Holmes...
When University of Minnesota student Faduma AbdulleâÄôs moved to the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood from Somalia in 1993, only three other Somali families lived there.
The Speech-Language-Hearing...
Starting Friday, students living around the University of Minnesota will need to be careful where they park their cars as street sweeping crews begin cleaning streets throughout the surrounding neighborhoods.
Streets...
For the first time in nearly 30 years, the City of Minneapolis is fine-tuning all of the roughly 800 traffic lights throughout the city.
By counting traffic and adjusting the timing of the lights accordingly,...
On Dec. 5 the University of Minnesota will have a new Associate Athletics Director and chief financial officer.
Tom McGinnis, a senior associate athletics director at The Ohio State University, was named...
Starting Tuesday, Minneapolis residents will need to be careful where they park as street sweeping crews prepare to sweep streets throughout the city. Over the course of four weeks, the street sweepers...
By the start of 2012, a building on the University of Minnesota campus will be partially powered by the sun.
The University will use $230,000 of a $1.35 million grant to install solar panels on the roof...
After more than a decade of delays, construction on a bike path through the University of Minnesota campus will begin sometime in 2012.
Plans for the University Bikeway, which will run from the Northern...
From a small wooden table in a corner of Muddsuckers Coffee Shop in Southeast Como, Minneapolis City Councilman Cam Gordon sipped on a cup of coffee and waited to see if any of his constituents would show...
With a handful of construction projects around campus in full swing, catching a Campus Connector or Circulator has become harder.
Both divisions of the Campus Shuttle service âÄî the Campus Connector...
Two large players in the Republican party have made it official, they are not running for president.
Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, announced Tuesday that he would not be seeking the GOP nomination. ...
Speaking to a large crowd at Coffman Union Theater, Mark Stephens, an internationally renowned lawyer and former counsel for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, brought a small part of the WikiLeaks debate...
Minneapolis is looking to build on its large network of farmers markets with a new organization that aims to improve the local food industry.
Starting Monday, Minneapolis is looking for applicants to serve...
Minneapolis may be losing its hold as one of the nationâÄôs top-tier biking cities, according to a recent survey.
Minneapolis slipped from second to fourth place among the countryâÄôs 50...
A YouTube video showing an argument between two students outside the Kirby Student Center at the University of Minnesota, Duluth earlier this month has had more than 76,000 views in 6 days.
Gustavus...
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. RybakâÄôs proposed city budget for 2012 is slowly working its way towards approval.
The budget includes $150 million for street repairs, keeps property taxes flat and focuses...
UPDATE: Rain and weather conditions have postponed the changes to road and ramp closures. Check back for more information.
Construction on the north side of the Washington and Cedar Avenue interchange...
Harry Hull stood feet away from the intersection where his daughter was killed five months ago.
He spoke Tuesday to a crowd of the 20 or so gathered at the intersection of 15th Avenue and Fourth Street...
For international students seeking to attend college in the U.S. or stick around after graduation, obtaining a visa just became a little easier.
Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland...
Forest fires have ripped through nearly 160 square miles of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness near the Canadian border.
After taking a turn for the worse earlier this week, the fire in MinnesotaâÄôs...
The University of Minnesota announced Wednesday that Allen S. Levine, dean of the UniversityâÄôs College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences is its third candidate to become senior...
Strong winds and vast amounts of dry wood have fueled the wildfire in Minnesota's north woods to an unprecedented size. The blaze covers nearly 160 square miles and has already consumed 100,000...
The University of Minnesota announced today its third candidate to become senior vice president for academic affairs and provost: Dr. Allen S. Levine, dean of the UniversityâÄôs College of Food,...
Yesterday Mayor R.T. Rybak released his 2012 budget proposal. While the proposal is not an official budget document it does outline several policies that will likely be implemented in the...
Plans to build a high-speed train line that would connect the Twin Cities with Duluth are gaining momentum.
The Federal Railroad Administration recently approved the proposed route for the Northern Lights...
With the help of a 2-inch rectangular chip, the University of Minnesota hopes to encourage more people to bike.
Using a system called Radio Frequency Identification, the chip helps ensure each rider is...
Steve Sanders has his fingers crossed for the University of MinnesotaâÄôs Bike Center to finally open its doors Sept. 12.
âÄúThereâÄôs still a lot of work to do, but things are...
In a trying year across the board for Gophers athletics, the Minnesota womenâÄôs golf team is quietly having one of the best seasons in the programâÄôs history.
Coming off of a sixth place...
Gopher senior Donald Constable has been named to the 2011 men's golf All-Big Ten Second Team, while sophomore Erik Van Rooyen was named to the 2011 Big Ten Championship team after finishing in fourth at...
This certainly was not how the Minnesota menâÄôs golf team wanted to end its season.
With an eighth-place finish at the Big Ten championships at the Birck Boilermaker Golf ComplexâÄôs Kampen...
Heading into the Big Ten championships this weekend in West Lafayette, Ind., the Minnesota menâÄôs golf team (60-66-3) will need nothing short of a spectacular finish in order to qualify for the...
In its last tournament of the regular season, the Minnesota menâÄôs golf team shook things up by adding senior Cameron White to the lineup. The move paid off as the Gophers finished in fifth place...
After posting one of the best regular season records in the programâÄôs recent history, the No. 40 Minnesota womenâÄôs golf team has high hopes heading into the Big Ten Championships this...
With the Big Ten championships less than a week away, the Minnesota womenâÄôs golf team was hoping for a better outcome at the Lady Buckeye Spring Invite this past weekend.
With no Gophers golfers...
Three weeks ago, the Minnesota menâÄôs golf team was playing mediocre golf, at best.
But after finishing in the top five in the past two tournaments, as well as the emergence of freshman...
Winning is always important. After having five games canceled in the past month, though, the Gophers are just happy they could keep some rhythm with a midweek game against St. Thomas yesterday.
Minnesota...
With its best finish of the season, the Minnesota womenâÄôs golf team seems to be hitting its stride at the right time.
The Gophers finished second Tuesday at the Pinehurst Challenge, the teamâÄôs...
With another fifth-place finish this weekend at the Louisiana State University Invitational, the Minnesota menâÄôs golf team proved that it has the potential to be competitive not only at the Big...
After its best tournament of the season, the Minnesota menâÄôs golf team can feel a bit more optimistic about its NCAA tournament hopes heading into this weekend.
The Gophers pushed their record...
For the second time this season, Gophers women's golfer Teresa Puga was named Big Ten Conference Golfer of the Week. It is the fourth time in the senior’s career that she has received the...
The Minnesota womenâÄôs golf team made a strong argument to the NCAA this past weekend that it belongs among the top teams in the country.
The Gophers finished with a 54-hole team total of 883,...
After another seventh place finish this past weekend, the Minnesota menâÄôs golf team looks to improve on what has been a thoroughly mediocre season thus far as it heads to the Gleneagles Country...
