First Avenue, The Cedar, and seven other Minneapolis stages turn into Saturday morning kid zones with balloon artists and food trucks — all free.

A July 8 overdose call near West 15th and Nicollet has become an active homicide probe. Police say no arrests have been made.

Aiyana Lakota Rose Plenty Horse allegedly poured gas near a boarding home worker, then fled on foot before tripping into an arrest.

Residents near Osgood Avenue say window-rattling engine brakes have gotten worse since I-94 construction pushed trucks onto Highway 36.

The Wednesday groundbreaking adds 25% more capacity as the Twin Cities braces for 350,000 more residents by 2050.

The starry-ceilinged bar behind NE 2nd Street's galaxy menu shuts down September 5 for a housemade pasta reboot this October.

Smack Shack Steak debuts September 15 with USDA Prime cuts, a 10-foot wood-fired grill and Maine lobster tails, while the North Loop flagship stays the same.

The $25 Hyde & EEK! costume featured a black face mask and top hat critics likened to Jim Crow-era caricatures.

Bystanders doused the food-court blaze at Crossroads Center before firefighters even arrived Monday morning.

A husband and wife on separate motorcycles hit the same deer near Windom and were flown to a Sioux Falls hospital.

A 33-year-old climbed through a window on Arcade Street and punched two sleeping women, police say. He was already facing charges in two other counties.

March'e Myers vanished after a Minneapolis sleepover; her phone went dark near Irving Avenue North.

A 44-year-old driver died at the same rural intersection where a similar failure-to-yield crash happened five years earlier.