Two Minneapolis lawmakers are introducing legislation to require fire sprinklers in all high-rise residential buildings, following fatal fires in residential buildings last year.
Officials hope anti-crime strategies that focus more on community-based solutions and public health than on beefing up police patrols will help prevent a repeat of 2019 violence levels.
The median home selling price has now increased by more than 5 percent every year since 2012, according to the latest annual market report from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors.
Teachers and school staff at seven St. Paul public schools are teaming up to identify students whose families could use help paying rent. Then the city will give those families $300 a month for up to three years. It’s part of St. Paul’s new Families First Housing pilot program.
A Florida brewery that recently began placing shelter dogs' faces on beer cans helped reunite a Minnesota woman with her dog, Hazel, who went missing three years ago.
Crews from the St. Paul Fire Department’s Rescue Squad 3 were called out just after 1:30 a.m. on reports that a man was trapped on a cliff 100 feet above ground near Wabasha Street and Shepard Road.
As temperatures climbed into the 40s across much of Minnesota under sunny skies on Sunday, many people got outside to go for a walk, get their car washed — or check out the melting ice sculptures in downtown St. Paul.
Recently, The Grove United Methodist Church outside St. Paul said it “made the news for all the wrong reasons.” Pastors say the church closure has to do with mission, not age. And it’s not unusual: Closing a church to reopen another in its place is called a “restart.”
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According to a new report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, there's been a significant increase in middle-income renters who pay more than 30 percent of their income for housing.