Tag: Metro Transit
State to metro businesses: Begin implementing sales tax increase Oct. 1
Twin Cities area business owners who’ve checked their mailboxes over the last few weeks are likely to have received a letter from the Minnesota...
Met Council derided as ‘agency gone rogue’ after latest Southwest light...
Legislators from both sides of the political aisle took turns putting the Metropolitan Council on blast Wednesday morning during a presentation of the Office of the...
New report on Southwest light rail project will focus on Met...
The Office of the Legislative Auditor will release the second of two program evaluation reports as part of its 2023 audit of the Southwest light rail project...
MPD investigating leak of video from fatal crash
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said his department will conduct an investigation to find “the source” of a leaked video from Friday’s fatal crash.
Five...
‘Karen the camera’ captures 42 individuals urinating on private property
A Minneapolis home security camera dubbed “Karen the Camera” captured 42 individuals urinating after a porta potty was removed.
“Karen was informed that the company...
DFL-controlled legislature hands $8 billion transportation bill to Walz for signature
A nearly $8 billion finalized transportation bill has cleared the House and Senate and is on its way to the desk of Gov. Tim Walz to...
Twin Cities weekend crime recap
Predatory offender Christopher Donquie Williams, 32, of Richfield was charged Thursday in a new rape case authorities say occurred at an apartment in Bloomington...
Legislators look to take Met Council power out of governor’s hands
For the better part of the last two decades Rep. Frank Hornstein, a self-admitted progressive DFLer from Minneapolis, has been pushing proposed legislation that would...
Report: Met Council wasn’t transparent about Southwest light rail costs, delays
The Office of the Legislative Auditor said in a new report that the Metropolitan Council was not fully transparent with the public about significant...
Twin Cities weekend crime recap
Fridley police responded Thursday to a report of a shooting just after 11 a.m. in the parking lot of Cub Foods at 250 57th...