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Prairie Island dispensary will offer early test for recreational cannabis sales closer to the Twin Cities

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Prairie Island nuclear outage brought on by cutting power cables

Walker Orenstein on the Star Tribune writes the lengthy outage on the Prairie Island nuclear power plant last October was brought on by Xcel employees cutting a bundle of power cables when drilling sideways underground. Jason Rantala at WCCO News...

Minnesota Yacht Club Festival coming to Harriet Island Regional Park in St. Paul

It’s been years since a significant music festival alighted on Harriet Island Regional Park, despite its seemingly alternative location along the Mississippi River below the downtown St. Paul river bluffs. Counting Crows headlined a Taste of Minnesota concert lineup in...

Raspberry Island murder charges: Man shot 20-year-old after telling him to show off song related to rival gang

A 20-year-old man was playing a song related to gangs from St. Paul’s East Side when a person tied to a rival West Side gang shot him on Raspberry Island, based on murder charges filed Friday. Marcus Anthony Baker Jr.,...

2 arrested in shooting on St. Paul’s Raspberry Island that killed 20-year-old man

Police have arrested two men in a shooting on St. Paul’s Raspberry Island that killed a 20-year-old man about two weeks ago. Homicide investigators served a search warrant at an apartment within the 6200 block of Shingle Creek Parkway in...

Police ID man killed on Raspberry Island as St. Paul 20-year-old

Police identified on Wednesday a person who died after he was shot on St. Paul’s Raspberry Island as a 20-year-old from St. Paul. Marcus Anthony Baker Jr. was pronounced dead at Regions Hospital Tuesday night. Officers were called to the Mississippi...

Altercation on St. Paul’s Raspberry Island on Monday night ends with man fatally shot

A person died after he was shot on St. Paul’s Raspberry Island Monday night. Police were called to the Mississippi River park across from downtown just after 9 p.m. on a report of a shooting. There had been a big...

Irish Fair is that this weekend at St. Paul’s Harriet Island, will feature visit from Ireland’s ambassador to the U.S.

The Irish Fair of Minnesota will happen tihs weekend at St. Paul’s Harriet Island and have a visit from the ambassador of Ireland. Geraldine Byrne Nason, who became the Irish ambassador to the U.S. in 2022, will participate within the...

Chaos erupts again on Boom Island over Fourth of July holiday

Boom Island Park, Minneapolis Creative Commons/nullrend Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news. It was one other chaotic Fourth of July in Minneapolis as dozens of individuals shot off fireworks on Boom Island, WCCO reports.  A March ransomware attack on...

Is the Twin Cities urban heat island responsible for this summer’s lack of rain?

Lacking mountains, most rainfall within the Twin Cities relies on fronts to push warmer air upward, causing rain to fall. MinnPost file photo by Peter Callaghan Does the urban core get roughly rainfall than the Twin Cities exurbs? Or, why is...
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St. Paul prevails in legal fight to raze, replace historic Hamline-Midway Library

Following 16 months of litigation, a Ramsey County district judge has given the town of St. Paul the go-ahead...
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St. Paul-based Securian Financial lays off 58 employees across departments

Securian Financial has notified 58 employees — roughly 2% of its total workforce — that their roles with the corporate are being eliminated in...

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum seeks thirteenth term in rematch with May Lor Xiong in 4th District

Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...

Believed to have been the oldest working nurse in Minnesota, Joyce Gimmestad retired at 88. She reflects on 7 many years in healthcare

Joyce Gimmestad hoped to succeed in 90 before retiring from being a nurse. Still, she retired on June 22, at 88, attributable to a...

Family of 83-year-old St. Paul man killed in hit-and-run: ‘We’ll forgive you. … Please turn yourself in’

For 30 years, John Bidon took each day runs around Lake Phalen near his St. Paul home. He’d stretch it out to 5 miles...