Susan Du

The summertime celebration aimed to unite the city and restore its image.

Security camera footage corroborates the shelter's story of the attack, showing the violence occurred in two stages on the night of Sept. 5 when police were not present.

St. Anne's Place has been vacated after residents were attacked last week, staff said, and the incident was captured on camera. Five days later there have been no arrests.

CommonBond Communities has launched the largest capital campaign in its history to improve its housing stock amid "multiple pandemics" and insufficient public subsidies.

Agate Housing announced last month it would have to close its homeless shelter and food shelf downtown without at least $3 million for critical repairs.

The City Council, with Frey's support, agreed to give East Phillips Neighborhood Institute an additional year to raise $5.7 million still needed to buy the former roofing warehouse.

Six drivers are suing the Minnesota Uber/Lyft Drivers Association (MULDA), accusing leader Eid Ali of using the nonprofit to enrich himself.

Without emergency funding to make critical repairs, the building will go into vacancy and eventually have to be sold.

After beloved Powderhorn Park watering hole May Day Cafe was put up for sale, its longtime workers organized to buy it and turn it into a cooperative.

The new ordinance imposes a time limit and higher fees on property owners holding on to vacant buildings.

Citizen groups sued the city to study the environmental impacts of increasing density, but the city successfully lobbied for a new state law designed to kill the lawsuit.

A recharged neighborhood association is trying to forge stronger connections in a pocket of Minneapolis struggling with drugs.

Residents will likely feel the brunt of the increase — the highest in at least 20 years. And a bigger increase is envisioned for 2026.

The public housing authority committed to upgrading all its high-rises after tenants were killed in a fire at the Cedar High Apartments in 2019.

Owner Beacon Interfaith plans to expand homeless units from 76 to 98, but neighbors distrust the nonprofit's ability to manage it.

Event Saturday in Minnehaha Park will commemorate the 1934 Minneapolis truckers strike, a bloody, six-month clash that made the city a union town.

A majority of commissioners chose not to discuss a resolution to settle contract negotiations between the Park Board and Laborers Local 363.

The city unveiled three street concepts and five ideas for the former gas station.

The four-year lawsuit represented formerly homeless people who had their belongings seized in 2020.

Lakeshore Care wants to bring a 24-bed center to the struggling Minneapolis business district for homeless people to stay temporarily as they recuperate after hospitalization.

The Minneapolis park workers strike has persisted 15 days, leading to cancelled concerts and delayed storm cleanup.

The city will start the process of terminating the purchase agreement on Tuesday, triggering a final 60-day period for the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute to come up with $5.7 million.

By this fall, Minneapolis aims to be one of the first American cities to produce a carbon-removing charcoal for construction, agriculture and potentially carbon banking.

As the City Council considers a proposed Labor Standards Board, there is a widening gap between what supporters and opponents think it will entail.

Owámniyomni Okhódayapi, formerly Friends of the Falls, selected an Indigenous-led design team for a multiyear ecological restoration of 5 acres of federal land in downtown Minneapolis.

Minneapolis park workers with Laborers 363 are in the middle of a seven-day strike over stalled contract negotiations, leading to canceled summer concerts.

Union musicians are calling off performances in support of the park workers strike.

Staffing needs have increased amid a decline in volunteers, sparking tension with neighbors and financially unmooring the organization.

In the most significant case on homelessness in 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Ninth Circuit Court ruling finding it cruel and unusual to criminalize homeless people for sleeping in public when there is no shelter available. The ruling has ramifications for Minnesotan cities trying to balance boundaries of behavior in public places and helping chronically homeless people find permanent homes.

Financing complications are pushing back the construction timeline of all affordable housing buildings planned for the Upper Harbor site in north Minneapolis, and developers say they may need to reimagine the plans.

A citizens' lawsuit seeking to force Minneapolis to conduct an environmental study on the plan continues for now.

The new center so far includes two pools, a fitness center and Soul Bowl restaurant.

Minneapolis restaurant operators are ramping up their opposition to a proposed policy-recommending body that they fear could raise the cost of doing business.

The waterway was used as an industrial dumping ditch. Then city leaders tunneled it out of sight.

Minnehaha Academy is asking the city for permission to build a new synthetic field with 80-feet-tall floodlights for night games and rentals. Direct neighbors say the school is sidelining their concerns.

Lease renewal prompts friction between Minneapolis Park Board and Boys and Girls Club.

Two Minneapolis police who had each been on the job for a decade fired their weapons on Thursday, according to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

A deeply affordable apartment building near I-35 and I-94 was repeatedly broken into and set on fire before being razed in May, providing a case study in the challenges of sustaining older, deeply affordable housing.

The city stopped paying violence interrupters with little explanation.

In his first mayoral campaign, Mayor Jacob Frey vowed to end homelessness in five years. It's proven to be one of the most intractable problems of his time in office.

As the board's partnership with Green Cities Accord enters its third year, energy companies are beginning to buy carbon offset credits generated from park trees to claim they're reducing emissions.

A city ordinance passed in 2016 requires new skyways to have bird-safe glass. A citizen science project is hitting the streets to test its efficacy.

Smart Growth Minneapolis has vowed to appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court as the Legislature considers whether to intervene in an environmental lawsuit that has interrupted the construction of multifamily housing throughout the city.

Elders living in the Minneapolis housing complex have been protesting in recent months, accusing management of failing to perform maintenance.

Developer United Properties unveiled the nonprofit tennis organization as its preferred anchor tenant for a key parcel dedicated to health and wellness.

The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute is busy recruiting tenants to move into the Roof Depot warehouse in Minneapolis and shaping a community ownership model. But first it has to close on the building.

The story has special meaning to those who relate to finding hope through darkness in their own lives.

From stormtrooping for charity to block parties, break up the monotony of this gloomy spring with Star Wars events across the Twin Cities.

Several low-lying blocks of the Cleveland neighborhood have weathered excess storm water for decades. New flood modeling finally has identified the area as a priority for street and sewer improvements.

Schendel will be in charge of navigating the city's animal control unit through challenges with overcrowding and an uptick in neglect cases.

A temporary community safety center on the immigrant business corridor, followed by a permanent one coming to 2633 Minnehaha Av., aim to reinvigorate public safety in south Minneapolis.

Council members meeting as a committee did not lend their support to Mayor Jacob Frey's proposal to turn the burned-out police station into a voter center; the mayor says he'll move forward with plans anyway.

Shelter beds were used more than 167,700 times during the same period.

Jim Barrett and Andrew Kamin-Lyndgaard of Minneapolis created Little Free Libraries for naloxone and fentanyl testing strips as part of a growing effort to expand access to the overdose-reversing medicine.

More than 200 fires were intentionally set in 2022 and 2023, but only a handful resulted in criminal charges.

Magrath Library supervisors removed a book display that was curated by a student worker.

The council voted unanimously Thursday to push the start date of a new policy to July 1, saying it will give new rideshare companies time to start up and fill gaps if Uber and Lyft leave the city.

Council President Elliott Payne is willing to extend the start date for Minneapolis' new rideshare wage ordinance from May 1 to July 1; such a change will still require a full council vote.

The City Council is scheduled to take up the question of whether to reconsider the ordinance in its meeting Thursday; Uber and Lyft have said they'll leave if it goes into effect May 1.

As union negotiations intensify around the high cost of living, Park Board maintenance workers say love for parks is the only thing keeping them around.

After deciding police should not return to 3000 Minnehaha Av., city staff proposed the Lake Street building for the new home of Elections and Voter Services.

Minnesota Overdose Awareness opened the center at 3859 Fremont Av. N. on Tuesday with the blessing of the Webber-Camden Neighborhood Organization.

Another year of engagement around the intersection aims to define the city's role in future memorials, street design requirements and ownership of a former gas station-turned-protest space.

After a major tenant bailed, Mike Marinovich transformed the second floor of 1200 Washington Av. S. into the sound-proof Minneapolis Pickleball Club, and it's beckoning people back to the city.

After a decade of work pairing creek improvements with redevelopment projects in the western suburbs, the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District is starting to focus on water problems in Minneapolis.

This winter was the first time the Park Board allowed the Urban Sap Tap project, a dedicated group of King Field hobby syrupers, to tap maples in King Park.

The Park Board owns the garden, where Hennepin County wants to pave a bike and pedestrian trail to the Midtown Greenway.

HavenBrook Homes has agreed to pay $2.2 million in restitution, forgive $2 million of tenants' debt and attempt to sell its rental homes.

A U.S. District Court judge is again considering residents' plea for a restraining order against encampment closures by the city.

The 53-year-old employee of the Minneapolis Park Board was charged with second degree assault with a dangerous weapon in the stabbing, which allegedly took place after he became upset with the teen for swearing.

Despite dogged efforts to keep Minneapolis parks' iconic neighborhood ice rinks frozen, an exceptionally warm winter wasted money, labor and water.

Hennepin County wants to build an ADA-compliant bike ramp through a community garden; the gardeners want other locations considered.

Council Member Robin Wonsley had proposed changing the city charter to allow voters to create or repeal legislation, following the examples of St. Paul, Duluth, Brooklyn Park and Bloomington.

Some park commissioners and community groups want more consideration of climate data and changing climate patterns in planning for park ice rinks.

Renovating the flagship north Minneapolis neighborhood park is expected to cost $35 million.