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Kate Beane understands better than most that history is messy.She has a doctorate in American studies and spent years as director of Native American Initiatives for the Minnesota Historical Society. A Dakota woman, Beane also dug into her own family history for her thesis project, including her c...

Meeting as a committee Tuesday, council members voted overwhelmingly to take no action on the vexing challenge of finding a new headquarters for the police officers who serve much of south Minneapolis. Those officers were formerly stationed at the Lake Street building ransacked and torched after ...

The reason why flights from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are so pricey comes down to this: Delta Air Lines.The Atlanta-based carrier the dominant airline at MSP, with 70% of its flight seats drives domestic airfares there and pushed the airport to third most expensive on average a...

The Ojibwe Word of the Day series by @jamesvukelich shares pronunciations and cultural context for terms such as ziigwan (it is spring) and miinibaashkiminasiganibiitooyingwesijiganibakwezhigan (blueberry sauce that is put between two layers of bread that face each other, a.k.a. blueberry pie). W...

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty's office will begin considering whether charges will be filed in the fatal shooting of Ricky Cobb II, a Black motorist, by a Minnesota state trooper earlier this summer.The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on Tuesday handed over its investigation to...

The two-story red brick house was the second one 22-year-old Anthony Bradford ever toured. But the moment he walked through the door, he knew it was where he wanted to settle.Weeks later, with a $90,000 forgivable loan from the city of St. Paul, Bradford closed on the $229,000 house. It sits not ...

A county jail inmate lay in a padded restraint in a hallway, his head bleeding. A man sat in a wheelchair, weeping in the packed waiting room. Physicians at HCMC's emergency department debated whether a stabbing victim needed surgery.A nurse cradled a phone, getting a handle on capacity: Of 23 ER...

Memorial Blood Centers announced an emergency shortage Thursday that left it below the recommended five- to seven-day stockpile to ensure an adequate supply for Minnesota hospitals. Supplies were down to a day or two for type O blood that any patients can receive, and for rarer type B negative bl...

Staffing shortages plague law enforcement agencies nationwide, as overall interest in the profession has plummeted amid heightened public scrutiny following a series of high-profile police killings. But the problem is particularly acute in Minneapolis, where the police force continues to hemorrha...

At Gai Noi, a restaurant by the James Beard-nominated chef Ann Ahmed, you may count the many ways in which expectations are defied.Read the full review by @intrepid_glutton at the link in our bio.#minneapolis #twincities #minnesota #mnfoodie

Hennepin County officials announced Thursday a redoubling of their efforts to combat the fentanyl epidemic that last year killed an average of one county resident each day.As officials detailed their ongoing efforts to battle a drug that led American overdose deaths to crest to 100,000 people in ...

The family and friends of a Black man who died in the back of a Faribault police officer's car on the way to jail want officials to release police footage of the incident.Kenya Skelton, the sister of 36-year-old Jerrell Skelton, said she wants the footage released immediately to show what happene...