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Minneapolis City Council hikes price of e-cigarettes to $25 minimum

Building on recent cigarette price increases, officials are now targeting youth vaping.
July 10, 2025
Under an agreement with 33 states, e-cigarette maker Juul will pay $438.5 million and refrain from all youth marketing, paid product placement, advertising on public transportation, funding education programs, depicting anyone under 35 years old in advertisement or using cartoons in ads, among other marketing activities. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/TNS) ORG XMIT: 57810322W

Minneapolis spending $12 million to set up cameras to catch speeders

NovoaGlobal, Inc., will operate the system for the next four years.
July 10, 2025

Family IDs man fatally shot while riding scooter in Minneapolis over July 4th weekend

Police have announced no arrests in connection with the late-night gunfire.
July 10, 2025

Roper: The community steps up to save Loring Park’s dandelion fountain

Half a century after it opened, the Berger Fountain is in need of large-scale repairs. It hasn’t operated in five years.
AuthoredEric Roper
July 10, 2025

2nd gunman charged in ‘war zone’ shooting on Boom Island that left woman dead, others wounded

Marquez Hill-Turnipseed sat on the edge of an open window as the car circled the parking lot and shot “into the crowd multiple times,” the criminal complaint read.
July 9, 2025

2 men charged with having ‘staggering’ amount of meth in their vehicles in Minneapolis

“The damage 900 pounds of methamphetamine could have caused is devastating,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said.
July 9, 2025

Cyberattack deals major blow to Minneapolis affordable housing push

All the repair and construction work that Housing in Action planned for north Minneapolis this summer is on pause.
July 9, 2025
A crew from Urban Homeworks worked near 18th and Emerson. "The foreclosure crisis has hit north Minneapolis particularly hard," said Thomas Streitz, housing director for Minneapolis. Faith-based groups are "willing to take on the toughest houses and projects that other developers are not interested in."

Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis to reopen to the public Aug. 9

The bridge, which has closed in halved sections since spring 2024, will reopen with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring food trucks and other entertainment.
July 8, 2025

Charges say argument over $15 preceded fatal stabbing over July 4th weekend in Minneapolis

Sincir Porter admitted to the killing, according to the criminal complaint.
July 8, 2025

Alcohol suspected in ATV crash that injured 12-year-old in northern Minnesota

Crow Wing County sheriff says the driver, a 37-year-old Minneapolis man, was airlifted with severe injuries.
July 7, 2025
Off-highway vehicle use in Minnesota, like that among ATVs, has increased since the pandemic hit.

Officials ID man found fatally shot in Minneapolis as July 4 drew to a close

This was the city’s second homicide on the Fourth of July.
July 7, 2025

Future uncertain for some 50th and Penn businesses following building damage in February water main break

Terzo and the Sparrow Cafe are closing, while the Paperback Exchange plans to reopen but doesn’t yet know exactly when or where.
July 5, 2025
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