The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is expanding overnight parking bans on the west and south sides of Lake Bde Maka Ska to address safety issues. The new hours, effective Thursday, ban parking from 8 p.

The Trump administration announced the withdrawal of the plan just days before the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s killing.

Sahra Mohamed Nur, 63 of Minneapolis, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release for her role in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nur was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $5,000,240.

Minneapolis and St. Paul are slipping in the Trust for Public Land’s ranking of city park systems. Both of the Twin Cities are still in the top five out of 100 larger cities included in the ranking, but other cities’ progress knocked Minneapolis and St.

The DOJ announced the end to Biden-era federal consent decrees aimed at seizing long-term control of local police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville.

The Justice Department is working toward dropping reform agreements with police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky., after killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in those cities drew national attention.

Consent decrees have been a federal government tool for reforming police departments. What happens if the one governing the Minneapolis Police Department goes away?

Activists say they are not surprised the Trump administration pulled out of a consent decree covering Minneapolis police, but are frustrated the city didn't finalize it sooner.

Ayodele Famodu will serve as the chief of the Internal Affairs Bureau and Ganesha Martin as the chief of the Constitutional Policing Bureau.

Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, announced the decision days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.