Minneapolis News

As the winter gets colder, show-going slows down a little. However, this doesn't mean there aren't some killer shows to be seen! First Avenue is hosting an "unauguration" party for R.T. Rybak Wednesday featuring many local acts.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., December 17 .- Archbishop John Nienstedt has apologized for sex abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Minneapolis, urging Catholics to be hopeful that continued progress will be made in preventing the crimes.

Fine wants to create more jobs for more people, stretching outside of its current parameters.

An ex-Marine from Prior Lake has received one of the military's top honors. Officials presented a Silver Star medal to Cpl.

Minneapolis is getting another of the protected bike lanes known as a cycle track under a Hennepin County revamping of Washington Avenue in downtown that gives bikers dedicated space and walkers wider areas at the expense of motorists.

Minneapolis police were tipped off early this month that members of the violent 19 Block Dip Set gang had been stashing guns and large amounts of ammunition in an alleged plot to retaliate for the shooting death of their leader at a downtown nightclub last month.

Minneapolis Police's response to the early November shooting at Epic during a Yo Gotti concert continued this week with a raid of a house in North Minneapolis.

The top official of the Roman Catholic Church in the Twin Cities has been accused of "inappropriate touching" of a boy on the buttocks in 2009.

A section of West 29th Street, at right, which stretches between Emerson and Lyndale avenues in Minneapolis' Uptown area, is under study for conversion into a park.

Minneapolis, Minnesota December 17, 2013 While positive Twin Cities housing trends, such as increasing home values, are anticipated to continue into 2014, new FHA mortgage limits coming January 2014 could put a crimp in some Twin Cities home buyers' abilities to afford new homes or rehab homes.

Scottish indie rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks were talking about releasing a live album earlier this year, and it's now officially announced that E Rey - Live in Philadelphia will be out on February 25 via FatCat.

University of Minnesota officials issued another crime alert after a man robbed a student of his laptop computer last weekend in a building on the West Bank campus in Minneapolis.

A University of Minnesota study finds the incidence of autism spectrum disorder is higher among Somali children in Minneapolis than the city's children as a whole -- and it appears to affect them more severely.

Authorities on Monday identified the man who was fatally shot at night in the street of a residential area of north Minneapolis.

The southeastern Minnesota diocese filed the list in Ramsey County District Court on Monday.

Mary Mack of Minneapolis voices the character Dylan in Fox's upcoming series "Golan the Insatiable," which is set in a Twin Cities suburb.

The University of Minnesota says the body of a young man found near the Mississippi River in Minneapolis was that of a freshman.

Published by Minneapolis, MN-based Squares and Rebels Press, which primarily promotes literary works by LGBT poets and writers "who have a strong connection to the Midwest," "Queer & Celtic," a new collection of Irish memories, poetry, essays, plays, and short stories, is a powerful reflection on family, community, and Celtic culture.

MIGIZI Communications, Phillips Indian Educators and the Native American Community Development Institute hosted this roundtable dialogue with the Mayor to generate ideas to work towards ending the achievement for American Indian students.

The Foshay Tower lit up Tuesday night downtown Minneapolis in 2009. This photograph was taken from Clinton Avenue in Minneapolis.