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Metro Transit taps private security company to implement fares, code of conduct on buses and light-weight rail

Using private contractors relatively than Metro Transit staff is a change in plans from what had been envisioned for the reason that Legislature approved a transit safety plan in May. MinnPost file photo by Peter Callaghan Metro Transit will engage a...

Minnesota Wild taps former state budget director as lobbyist. Is a public ask for Xcel Energy Center renovations next? 

Xcel Energy Center seats slightly below 18,000 for hockey, is owned by town of St. Paul and operated by the Wild's parent company, Minnesota Sports & Entertainment. Nick Wosika-USA TODAY Sports Are the Minnesota Wild preparing to ask state lawmakers for...

Mayor Frey taps Chief Judge Todd Barnette as community safety commissioner nominee

Mayor Jacob Frey announced on Monday his nomination of Hennepin County Chief Judge Todd Barnette for the City’s next community safety commissioner. Because the chief judge for Minnesota’s largest Judicial Court District, Barnette has deep local ties and...

Recent Apple Valley Lunds & Byerlys opening Sept. 14 with beer taps, mushroom farm

A brand new Lunds & Byerlys location is scheduled to open Sept. 14 in Apple Valley with self-serve beer taps and an indoor mushroom farm. The nearly 46,000 square-foot food market is on the corner of a hundred and fifty...

Business People: Securian taps Goal exec Malik to steer diversity efforts

OF NOTE Tariq Malik Securian Financial, St. Paul, announced the hire of Tariq Malik as second vp and chief diversity officer. Malik joined the corporate on April 24. Malik joins Securian from Goal Corp., where he most recently was director of...

Mayor Carter taps Axel Henry for St. Paul police chief

After a monthslong search, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter has chosen Axel Henry from a pool of 5 finalists to be the following Chief of St. Paul Police.  “I’m confident that Chief Axel Henry will uphold the best level of...

St. Paul mayor taps Cmdr. Axel Henry to be next police chief

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter announced Tuesday he’s chosen St. Paul Police Cmdr. Axel Henry to be the department’s next police chief. Henry joined St. Paul police in 1998 and rose through the department’s ranks. He’s currently accountable for the...

Lunds & Byerlys to open expanded Highland Park store with 30 self-serve beer taps

After nearly 40 years in Highland Park, Lunds & Byerlys is tapping out. No, it’s not closing — the local grocery chain is relocating to a bigger space round the corner, at the brand new Highland Bridge development, where the...
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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...