Target, Walmart and L.A. Fitness have a new neighbor. After T.J. Maxx moves into the building formerly occupied by PetSmart, the Midway Marketplace at 1410 University Ave. W. will be almost fully leased.

Few dollars were freed up for new transit efforts during the recent legislative session, but that hasn't stopped Ramsey County officials from exploring a potential "Gateway" transit corridor from downtown St. Paul to Woodbury. The light rail or Bus Rapid Transit route someday could travel over the St. Croix River Bridge and into Eau Claire, Wis.

Severe thunderstorms packing damaging winds popped up in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin on Sunday evening.

The Brunswick House in Stillwater is more than 160 years old, but it isn't on the National Register of Historic Places or within the boundaries of the city's protected Commercial Historic District.

The Minneapolis mayoral race is wide open after the DFL Party failed to endorse a candidate.

Whether to release a convicted sex offender might be one of the most challenging questions for judges who deal with federal civil commitment cases.

Police received a report of shots fired early Saturday, and more than an hour later someone called to say he had dropped off a gunshot victim at a hospital.

Jim Johns credits the forklift accident that left his upper body in tatters with inspiring his love of classic cars.

MADISON, Wis.—Wisconsin wildlife officials are warning people to be on the lookout for a couple of poison plants. Department of Natural

Stacy L. Robinson might not recognize the field that was dedicated in his memory Saturday.

The woman who achieved a strange and uniquely 21st-century sort of Internet infamy after being accused of bringing her 5-year-old daughter tanning was taken to a detox center after an incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Friday.

The Mississippi River Regional Trail, which has been in the works since the late 1990s, now runs from South St. Paul through Inver Grove Heights and from Hastings into Nininger Township.

The proposed downtown minor-league ballpark isn't doing much in the way of stirring up the beleaguered citizens of St. Paul, who now face another soil remediation. I have never heard anybody at the water cooler say, "Boy, oh boy, I can't wait for that new Lowertown ballpark to get built.''

Long-term lane, ramp and loop closures on Interstate 694 between Highway 100 in Brooklyn Center and Interstate 35W in Arden Hills are scheduled to begin this weekend.

The off-duty South St. Paul police sergeant who allegedly drove drunk and fled Rosemount police this week had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit when he struck mailboxes and gas pumps before an officer rammed his SUV to stop it, according to criminal charges filed Friday.

A 24-year-old man is in custody as a suspect in the death of his girlfriend's 4-year-old son, who was found unresponsive at his Burnsville home Tuesday.

A former Minneapolis nurse was sentenced Friday to a year in jail for a drunken Interstate 94 crash that killed one man and gravely injured two other people.

College Possible already helps low-income high school students reach for college. Now, with the goal of ensuring those students get their caps and gowns, the nonprofit will recruit 20 young AmeriCorps members to track and mentor participants after their big leap to higher education.

The University of Minnesota regents picked their board's new leaders amid uncommon dissent Friday.

University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler will travel to China and Taiwan later this month in the first international trip of his two-year presidency.