More cities are adopting registration programs and annual fees to maintain neighborhood safety and stability.

Minnesota's radio king Tom Barnard is known as a crude loudmouth. Turns out, there's a lot more to him than his brazen words.

Budget cuts and delayed retirements lead officials to cancel the training session that could cost $250,000.

Minneapolis will open the state's first "self-governed" school and also sponsor a new charter school.

An aide to Mayor R.T. Rybak denies helping a blogger duck a deputy trying to serve him a lawsuit.

A victim of an elder abuse scheme is about to go to a home, while one son serves time and another tries to make sense of a family divided.

Students in Minneapolis schools are awaiting the all-clear following a district-wide lockdown ordered this morning in response to a tip from Minneapol [...]

Given the rotten economy and all the stories about graduating high school seniors having trouble paying for college, it's astounding that with a Frida [...]

Tom Petters' pituitary-gland tumor: reason for leniency or just another fraud? By Dr. Craig Bowron | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 A review of his l [...]

Police are investigating a report that a shooting was planned at a Minneapolis school. Police say another threat at Cretin-Derham Hall High School may be related. [...]

Cindy Hickey, of Pine City, today received a call from her son Shane Bauer, one of three American hikers held in Iran. [...]

A Senate committee takes up a bill today that would tighten the rules for copper-nickel mining, just as a half-dozen companies are in the midst of making plans to open such mines in northeastern Minne [...]

Howard Brooks, above, said the money he received to fix his truck enabled him to continue studying at Inver Hills Community College. [...]

The Minnesota Department of Human Services on Tuesday announced it will cut 200 full-time positions from a program that provides direct care to people with mental illnesses. [...]

This week the small but vibrant Arab community in the Twin Cities celebrates Arabic culture through film. Between tomorrow and Sunday 28 movies from around the world will screen at the sixth Twin Citi [...]

A young man is recovering after he was found dangling from the marquee of a Minneapolis movie theater late Tuesday evening. [...]

The Minneapolis School District has locked down all of its buildings for the day after police said a threat to shoot up a Minneapolis school was posted on the Web. [...]

A phone line has been established for victims who may have been in contact with William Jacobs, a 66-year-old retired police captain accused of sexually abusing teen boys. [...]

State wildlife officials are proposing raising deer population goals in nearly four dozen management zones. The changes come after hunters ripped [...]

As a man convicted of vehicular homicide pushes for a new trial, some jurors wonder if they would've convicted him had they known about [...]

A six-year-old who died after being hit by a car on interstate 35W will be laid to rest Wednesday.   Kallie Palmer was playing with a group of friends in Burnsville Friday night when they climbed a [...]

It took 19 rounds and nearly three hours of competition before an eighth-grader from Albertville emerged as the state's top speller [...]

Two bills up for hearings on Wednesday would give same-sex partners and other unmarried couples more rights when one partner [...]

A new survey says the number of Minnesota school districts buying fresh food from local farms is growing. Farm to school programs [...]

The newest addition to the KARE 11 sports department entered the world Monday night. KARE 11 Sports Reporter Dave Schwartz [...]

A man who scaled the iconic sign on the Uptown Theater in Minneapolis Tuesday needed to be rescued... [...]

Some are calling the government's latest attempt to convince people to participate in the U.S. Census a waste of taxpayer money... [...]

Some Minnesota lawmakers discussed dead bodies instead of budgets on Tuesday... [...]

Cretin Derham Hall in St. Paul is also on lockdown due to a vague internet threat. It is unknown if the threat is related to those received by the Minneapolis schools. [...]

The entire Minneapolis public school system and Cretin Derham Hall in St. Paul are under lockdown after non-specific threats over two social media networks. [...]

New lead safe rules will protect kids and adults from the devastating effects of lead poisoning. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to protect the most vulnerable people in our community, kids [...]

Rep. Collin Peterson says he won’t vote for reconciliation when the Senate health care bill hits the House in the next week, but Rep. James Ober [...]

The campaign of Tarryl Clark released a web ad Monday that criticizes Rep. Michele Bachmann for her past stance on Social Security privatization and h [...]

On Monday, the Minnesota Family Council and several GOP lawmakers held a press conference announcing their intent to push for a constitutional amendme [...]

(via Live Green Twin Cities) According to a new survey by the Minnesota School Nutrition Association (MSNA) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trad [...]

(via Strib) The Minneapolis school board voted Tuesday to open Minnesota’s first school run by its teachers. The French-immersion elementary sch [...]

The University of Minnesota is usually engaged with some pretty cool, groundbreaking research, and this time it’s all about bears. Ok, hearts re [...]

Long before Joe Basel was arrested in Louisiana, he and his cohorts were already traveling the country filming investigative journalism stunts. Here a [...]

A recorded telephone message says that all schools are locked down and all access is restricted to all buildings. [...]

In a post on DailyKos, Olbermann accuses Ventura of misremembering the circumstances surrounding his time at MSNBC. [...]

By: Tony LiberaGorillaz ALBUM: "Plastic Beach" LABEL: Parlophone/Virgin Vanilla Ice once demanded that we "Stop, collaborate and listen," and it's obv [...]

By: John SandThursday Music -- Patches and Gretchen The Varsity 1308 4th St. S.E. 7 p.m. $10-$12 The Minneapolis-based group Patches and Gretchen call [...]

By: James NordUpon its completion in 2014, the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line will reconnect the Twin Cities in a way that has been missing [...]

By: Danielle NordineEffective fall 2010, the University of Minnesota will change some liberal education requirements, although many of the changes wil [...]