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New land use data shows that the region is growing increasingly reliant on mines in the southeast metro to make our concrete and asphalt, a resource that's a lot cheaper if it's local.
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This week the Drive told you about how plans for the new bus rapid transit (BRT) line on Penn Avenue are progressing. On Thursday, Metro Transit will share its plans for another BRT line that is in the works.
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Hawkeye Hotels and JR Hospitality have teamed up to buy and renovate the GuestHouse Inn and Suites in Bloomington. They will convert the hotel, which previously was the Park Plaza, into a Courtyard by Marriott in the next 12 months, according to a news...

The Metropolitan Airports Commission, which operates Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and six reliever airports, recently promoted three executives who will lead significant department's for the organization.
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ICE is using six county jails across Minnesota to hold people without legal status. The Sherburne County Sheriff's website says most of its 697 jail cells are rented to the federal government ...
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Brandyn Lee Wilson and Andrew Jonathan Townsend, both 21, are each facing one count of second-degree attempted murder after the shooting, which took place just before 11 p.m. on Oct. 9 in the 2400 block of Ogema Place ...
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The family of a woman who died when her neck became trapped between a bed and a physical therapy pole at a Roseville assisted living facility has retained an attorney and is considering legal action...
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State leaders may not be promising much in the way of subsidies for Amazon’s second headquarters, but that doesn’t mean local governments don’t have the means of helping entice the e-commerce giant.
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Dr. Brooks Jackson will leave his post as leader of the University of Minnesota's medical school for a job at the University of Iowa. The University of Iowa has named Jackson dean of its college of medicine and vice president for medical affairs. The...

On Friday, Target Center re-opened following a $140 million renovation that opened up the facility to natural light, increased gathering spaces and improved the flow of traffic.
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A gunman opened fire at a Maryland office park on Wednesday morning, killing three co-workers and wounding two others, authorities and the business owner said...
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There are no major tax incentives in Minnesota's bid to be home to Amazon's "second headquarters" complex, according to Gov. Mark Dayton. He says the state's bid is "businesslike" and "professional" ...
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The parents who claim their child was bullied by another student at Eden Prairie High School have filed a personal injury lawsuit in Hennepin County ...
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According to a search warrant application filed last week, a confidential informant led police to a Brooklyn Center hotel room. There, they found items, including a container with a "leafy substance." ...
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U.S.-backed Syrian forces liberated the city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants on Tuesday, a senior commander for the force said, adding that clearing operations were underway to remove land mines left behind and search for the extremist group's...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, owners of each team, representatives of the players' union and players themselves will meet Tuesday to discuss ways to "move from protest to progress."...
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That's how Sam Packwood found Mind Shift, a Hopkins-based nonprofit that hires individuals on the autism spectrum, trains them according to their personal strengths and pairs them with companies looking to hire specific individuals for difficult jobs to...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said they will enforce Dr. Guan Lee's deportation order from September of 2011. She's scheduled to leave Monday ... Minnesota Doctor's Final Hours in US Before Deportation
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Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy says quarterback Aaron Rodgers will have surgery on his broken right collarbone, and that his season could be over...
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Police are still looking for the driver of the car, who left the scene after colliding with a motorcycle at the intersection of East Lake Street and 19th Avenue South in Minneapolis ...
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ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that Teddy Bridgewater has been cleared to practice by the surgeon who performed his surgery following a severe knee injury suffered last August ...
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More than 300 people are dead after the truck bombing in Somalia's capital and scores of others remain missing, authorities said Monday, as the fragile Horn of Africa nation reeled from one of the world's worst attacks in years...
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Minneapolis Police Department public information officer Sgt. Catherine Michal said the incident occurred at 46th Street and Hiawatha Avenue around 7:55 a.m. ...
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Lt. Brent Erickson of the Anoka County Sheriff's Office said Chad Rygwall was likely the pilot. His body has been taken to the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Ramsey for official identification ...
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Arriving officers found a parked car with an adult male inside who had been shot, the release says. Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene ...
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Harrison Smith led Minnesota's defense in a thorough dismantling of Green Bay, as the Vikings knocked Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers out of the game on Sunday with a broken collarbone during a 23-10 victory that drastically altered the course of the...

While the danger from the deadliest, most destructive cluster of blazes in California history was far from over, the smoky skies started to clear in some places ...
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