MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Saturday was cold even for Minneapolis, but that didn't stop thousands of people from tromping out onto a frozen lake to immerse themselves in art, make new friends — and ...

Lake Minnetonka, the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes, Minnehaha Creek and Minnehaha Falls – have been the foundation of life in here for centuries. The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District has been ...

This story is an updated version of a story that was published four years ago in the Leader’s sister publication, Zest, when Charlie and Harriet Thor celebrated their ...

Hutchinson students joined Polar Plunge 2019 Friday to raise money for Special Olympics Minnesota. The high schoolers jumped into Bde Maka Ska, formerly Lake Calhoun, in Minneapolis. The Polar ...

It's time to face facts that Uptown is no longer cool, and reimagine it as a local hub to serve those who love it.

"Minnesota counties with names like Hennepin, Ramsey, Stearns, Todd, Sibley, Wright, Sherburne and Swift, for example, ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now officially the Gulf of America in the U.S. It is far from the first time a landform or town has changed names.

The process in each state is different. Lake Bde Maka Ska, formerly Lake Calhoun, is the largest lake in Minneapolis. YinYang/E+ via Getty Minnesota recently changed the name of a large lake in ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Three men and a boy were shot while sitting in a vehicle in south Minneapolis Tuesday night, police said. All four were inside a car near 29th Street West and Pleasant Avenue South ...

Minneapolis police are investigating two separate fatal shootings which happened just minutes apart. The shootings happened on the 3400 block of 3rd Avenue South and the 3100 block of Harriet ...