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Barrio Lowertown exits St. Paul neighborhood after 15 years

Barrio, a restaurant and tequila bar that brought some badly needed life back to St. Paul’s Mears Park in 2009, called it quits on Friday in Lowertown. A printed sign posted within the door says: “Barrio Lowertown has closed. Our...

Man dies following Oct. 17 house fire in St. Paul’s Battle Creek neighborhood

A person critically injured in an Oct. 17 house fire within the Battle Creek neighborhood has died of his injuries, St. Paul Fire Department officials said Friday. His death marks the eighth death that's connected to fires this 12 months...

Best burgers: 11 neighborhood spots

These 11 spots near home serve a crave-worthy burger. Recent or updated entries are marked with an asterisk. Did we miss your favorite? Tell us at eat@pioneerpress.com. RELATED: Burgers by chefs: 26 cheffy burgers. Dive bars: 9 dive bar burgers. Destination burgers: 11 burgers well...

The 19 Bar was a thriving remnant of a fast-changing Minneapolis neighborhood. Will it survive?

Sometime on the night of March 23, a 10-ton garbage truck collided with a picket utility pole in an old alley on the sting of downtown Minneapolis. Unfortunately, the pole carried an electrical transformer that landed on the roof...

From neighborhood playgrounds to Cooperstown, St. Paul has produced 4 baseball hall of famers

Possibly it was the coaches, those who invested within the youth of town and poured a lot of themselves into ensuring those kids learned vital life lessons each on and off the baseball diamond. Perhaps it was the all opportunities...

Pedestrian fatally struck on W. seventh Street identified. Neighborhood groups say it’s dangerous to cross throughout.

While safety measures had already been improved on the St. Paul intersection where a driver fatally struck a pedestrian on Monday, intersections along West Seventh Street remain dangerous, neighborhood organizations said Tuesday. Police on Tuesday identified the pedestrian as Bekele...

Oklahoma man charged with October shooting death in St. Paul’s Battle Creek neighborhood

An Oklahoma man has been charged within the shooting death of a Milwaukee man last October in St. Paul’s Battle Creek neighborhood. The 2 men were on the town for a marriage, investigators say. Khoau Yang, 36, of Milwaukee, was...

Just one in every of 41 St. Paul Neighborhood STAR grants went to an arts organization

Not way back, Mark Pfeifer applied to the town of St. Paul for just below $50,000 to spruce up the Hmong Cultural Center on University Avenue, in addition to to expand its recent museum round the corner. Because the...

Cashier killed while working at Loring Park grocery remembered as ‘neighborhood pillar’

Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news. Renée Cooper of KSTP-TV talked to those that knew “neighborhood pillar” Robert Skafte, a longtime cashier at Oak Grove Grocery in Minneapolis’ Loring Park neighborhood. Skafte was killed contained in...

Now open: Pauly’s Pub and Grill, a really St. Paul neighborhood bar, in the previous Kalsada spot

You actually don’t get more classic St. Paul than this: The unique founding father of Eagle Street Grille, the restaurant formerly across from the Xcel Energy Center, has teamed up with a past Winter Carnival King Boreas to open...
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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...