A traveling Water Lantern Festival will bring lantern-decorating, live music and a dusk lantern launch to Lake Phalen on June 13 with eco-friendly lanterns.

Portal Lounge opened at MSP Terminal 1 with 17 gaming stations and a robotic bartender named Toni. Admission is about $70 or included with Priority Pass.

Edina police issued a safety alert after a run of car break‑ins; officials say inexpensive key‑programming tools are fueling a regional uptick.

Eduart Gomez Ochoa was arrested and charged in connection with apartment assaults in St. Paul and Maplewood; prosecutors say surveillance and forensic evidence tied him to multiple incidents.

Two St. Paul crashes on Tuesday night left one person dead and an e-bike rider critically injured as police investigate both incidents. Streets were briefly closed while crews worked.

A 21-year-old St. Cloud resident faces 11 felony child‑pornography counts and multiple assault and vehicle charges after a probe tied illicit images to an X account.

A 20-year-old from Pine Island was arrested in North Carolina after a months-long Zumbrota police probe into child sexual abuse material. He is being held in Cumberland County pending extradition.

Walz signed House File 4138 on May 26, 2026, expanding protections for Minnesota kids on social media with parental‑consent rules and bans on addictive features.

A bipartisan bill to require insurers to cover infertility — including IVF and egg‑freezing — passed the Minnesota Senate but was left out of the final package, leaving families to shoulder large out‑of‑pocket costs.

Lawmakers removed roughly $1.2M in trust-fund support for a Boundary Waters youth program after objections about a social-media clip; educators say trips for underserved students are at risk.

A 66-year-old Hastings man was killed after his motorcycle collided with an SUV at Highway 61 and 12th Street West; state troopers say the rider wasn't wearing a helmet.

Brooklyn Park police say four people abandoned a vehicle early Saturday that was reportedly stolen in a Minneapolis carjacking; a firearm was recovered and suspects remain at large. The investigation is ongoing.

Our Saviour’s Lutheran in south Minneapolis formally handed a neighborhood lot known as the Green House to the Indigenous Protector Movement as reparations. Organizers plan a culturally rooted community house and housing.