In south Minneapolis, nearly every single seat in the 700-seat Riverview Theater was taken. The crowd cheered, mostly for Iowa, eating popcorn from the theater, which opened up for people to watch the game for free and held a canned food drive to collect for people in need.
Minneapolis fire crews extinguished a fire at a boarded-up apartment building just south of downtown Thursday, at least eight hours after the initial call.
Uber and Lyft are threatening to leave Minneapolis following the approval of a driver pay ordinance by the city council. Now, emerging rideshare apps are exploring ways to step in while drivers prepare for the potential changes ahead.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office has released information about the death of Allison Lussier, a 47-year-old Minneapolis woman, who died in February.
The Minneapolis City Council could reconsider its controversial ordinance boosting rideshare driver pay next Thursday. If there’s no action taken, Uber and Lyft say they’ll cease operations in the city and beyond by May 1.
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says a South Lake Minnetonka police officer is on standard administrative leave after firing his gun during a car chase last week.
Mohannad Ghawanmeh, a filmmaker and cinema scholar with a deep history in Minnesota’s arts scene, has been named the new president and executive director of Public Art St. Paul.
Minneapolis city leaders said Tuesday that they’ve finished implementing 27 recommendations from an after-action review that found a variety of problems with the public safety response to the rioting that followed George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020.
On Monday the Minnesota Twins debuted their new foods and beverages for the season. MPR News was front row to document all the new grub available for the team’s 15th year at Target Field (RIP the Metrodome).