Twin Cities

Downtown Minneapolis and Highland Park neighborhood residents in St. Paul will notice more aircraft noise starting Tuesday when reconstruction of the north runway at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airports begins.
Doctors say VA care is a model of efficiency
Some say that the Department of Veteran Affairs medical care is actually an excellent example of how the government is leading on health care quality and cost.
The Ramsey County attorney's office says Johnny Lee Ellis Jr., 39, was sentenced Monday in the deaths of his girlfriend, her mother and her sister in October 2008.
Debate divided on gay clergy in Lutheran church
Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are in Minneapolis this week debating many issues, most notably whether or not to allow sexually active homosexuals in committed relationships to serve as clergy.
Witness: Circus bleacher collapsed like a 'fallen souffle'
The city of St. Paul has temporarily closed the circus academy where about a dozen spectators were injured when a set of bleachers collapsed last night. The accident happened at the end of the final performance of the summer show at Circus Juventas.